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South Dos Palos, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dos Palos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93665. The Survey maps it on the Dos Palos quadrangle. 1,747 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 118 feet above sea level.

South Dos Palos within Merced County

Then and now

1913 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Dos Palos, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of South Dos Palos, surveyed 1913

Population over time

2 figures

South Dos Palos grew from 1,620 to 1,747 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
20101,620
20201,747+127 (+8%)

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

508 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 508 fires within 5 miles of South Dos Palos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,483 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/undetermined289
Equipment and vehicle use74
Arson/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning48
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaO STREET
9 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaROADSIDE
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitGEORGE
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaWOOTEN FIRE
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSan Luis National Wildlife RefugeSANTA FE
6 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionREYNOLDS AV DOS_PALOS
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitHWY 33 S DOS_PALOS_CITY
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitDEBRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Dos Palos in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 funnel cloud. 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
March 2023Funnel CloudSouth Dos Palos-An image of a funnel cloud over Dos Palos was posted on Facebook.
May 2023Funnel CloudSouth Dos Palos-A cooperative observer observed a funnel cloud over Dos Palos.

Every storm 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
Dos Palos2.1 miles20
Brito3.5 miles20
Dos Palos Y5.9 miles17
Santa Rita Park6.5 miles18
Gadwall (historical)7.1 miles15
Hamburg Farms8.3 miles25
Abbato (historical)11.1 miles15
Los Banos12.3 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 South Dos PalosAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2481744The 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 234957. 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.