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Stevinson, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hilmar-Irwin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95374. The Survey maps it on the Stevinson quadrangle. 275 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 85 feet above sea level.

Stevinson within Merced County

Then and now

1918 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stevinson, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Stevinson, surveyed 1918

Population over time

2 figures

Stevinson fell from 313 to 275 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
2010313
2020275-38 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

497 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 497 fires within 5 miles of Stevinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,513 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined264
Equipment and vehicle use103
Debris and open burning82
Arson/incendiarism25
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural2
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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionWEIR AV STEVENSON
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Luis National Wildlife RefugeLATTRELL
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Luis National Wildlife RefugeKEATON
9 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitLATTRELL
8 September 1999Naturalunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrasslands Wildlife Management AreaTUEL
7 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitJACKSON #2
7 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitJACKSON #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevinson in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 flood, 1 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
January 2023FloodStevinson-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along Westside Blvd. near Weir Ave.
January 2023FloodStevinson-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Westside Blvd. and Weir Ave.
March 2023FloodStevinson-The Merced River at Stevinson exceeded it's flood stage of 71 feet due to controlled dam releases of excess snowmelt runoff.
January 2009Funnel CloudStevinson-A trained SKYWARN spotter reported a funnel cloud that extended part of the way to the ground.

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
Irwin4.8 miles17
Hilmar5.6 miles17
Livingston7.9 miles16
Delhi8.2 miles17
Gustine9.2 miles17
Arena9.8 miles16
Linora (historical)10.6 miles14
Cressey11.6 miles16

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 StevinsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6646738The 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 1659870. 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.