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San Joaquin, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the San Joaquin-Tranquillity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93660. The Survey maps it on the San Joaquin quadrangle. 3,701 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 174 feet above sea level.

San Joaquin within Fresno County

Then and now

1925 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of San Joaquin, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of San Joaquin, surveyed 1925

Population over time

2 figures

San Joaquin fell from 4,001 to 3,701 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20104,001
20203,701-300 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of San Joaquin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 925 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 38759
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitS DENVER AV /S JAMES RD
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitDAVIDSON DR SAN_JOAQUIN
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 9254
22 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFresno-Kings UnitKAMM FIRE
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitCOLORADO
17 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 10317
10 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitLOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Joaquin in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 3 funnel cloud, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Funnel CloudSan Joaquin-Weather spotter reported a brief funnel cloud that lasted for about 3 minutes.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSan Joaquin-Outflow winds from a severe thunderstorm reported by a trained spotter.
February 2005LightningSan Joaquin-A thunderstorm just west of the small Southwest Fresno County town of San Joaquin was responsible for cloud-to-ground lightning, winds estimated at 40-50 MPH, and half inch hail. No damage was reported in this very rural area.
March 2006Funnel CloudSan Joaquin-no account filed
April 2006HailSan Joaquin-no account filed
April 2006HailSan Joaquin-no account filed
April 2006Flash FloodSan Joaquin-no account filed
January 1997Funnel CloudSan Joaquin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fresno County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Caldwell (historical)2.9 miles15
Tranquillity4.5 miles18
Fresno City (historical)5.4 miles18
Nares (historical)6.7 miles17
Helm7.1 miles17
Jamesan7.9 miles18
Ingle8.7 miles18
Cantua Creek9.9 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on San JoaquinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2081619The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277594. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.