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.
Then and now
1918 to 1983The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresStevinson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 313 | |
| 2020 | 275 | -38 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Stevinson quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Irwin quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Stevinson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stevinson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Turlock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Merced quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
497 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 264 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 103 |
| Debris and open burning | 82 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 25 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | WEIR AV STEVENSON |
| 9 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis National Wildlife Refuge | LATTRELL |
| 9 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis National Wildlife Refuge | KEATON |
| 9 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | LATTRELL |
| 8 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ROADSIDE |
| 7 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Grasslands Wildlife Management Area | TUEL |
| 7 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | JACKSON #2 |
| 7 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | JACKSON #1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Flood | Stevinson | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along Westside Blvd. near Weir Ave. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Stevinson | - | Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Westside Blvd. and Weir Ave. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Stevinson | - | The Merced River at Stevinson exceeded it's flood stage of 71 feet due to controlled dam releases of excess snowmelt runoff. |
| January 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Stevinson | - | A trained SKYWARN spotter reported a funnel cloud that extended part of the way to the ground. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irwin | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hilmar | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Livingston | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Delhi | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Gustine | 9.2 miles | 17 | |
| Arena | 9.8 miles | 16 | |
| Linora (historical) | 10.6 miles | 14 | |
| Cressey | 11.6 miles | 16 |
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 Stevinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6646738 | The 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.









