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Santa Nella Village, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Los Banos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95322. The Survey maps it on the San Luis Dam quadrangle. 2,211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Santa Nella Village within Merced County

Then and now

1920 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Santa Nella Village, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Santa Nella Village, surveyed 1920

Population over time

2 figures

Santa Nella Village grew from 1,380 to 2,211 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
20101,380
20202,211+831 (+60%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

798 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 798 fires within 5 miles of Santa Nella Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,879 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined443
Equipment and vehicle use244
Arson/incendiarism27
Smoking25
Debris and open burning24
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural4
Fireworks1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined800 acresMerced-Mariposa Unit152
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHWY 152 W/ ROMERO VISITO
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE
7 September 2008Smoking1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitHENRY
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE #171
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHWY 33 / HWY 152 CROSS
6 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitSAN LUIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced 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
Volta4.8 miles17
Ingomar6.2 miles14
Trent7.3 miles17
Linora (historical)8.1 miles14
Los Banos9.3 miles15
Abbato (historical)10.5 miles15
Gustine11.1 miles17
Gadwall (historical)14.3 miles15

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 Santa Nella VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3458718The 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 1659597. 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.