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Sunnyside, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fresno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93727. The Survey maps it on the Malaga quadrangle. 4,627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside within Fresno County

Then and now

1923 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

897 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 897 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 950 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 101 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/undetermined565
Arson/incendiarism101
Equipment and vehicle use88
Debris and open burning65
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Smoking21
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitWILLOW
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11182
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU 11600
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fred Santoni Lonestar MillGold, SilverUnknown

Every working recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$50,000Public report of 50 trees blown down at Belmont Country Club. A storm survey indicated that the damage was caused by straight line winds from a microburst.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$6,000California Highway Patrol reported a power pole and lines down at the intersection of E. Olive Ave. and N. Temperance Ave.

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
Granz (historical)0.6 miles20
Las Palmas0.6 miles22
Cameo1.1 miles22
Bronge (historical)1.4 miles22
Fort Camp (historical)1.8 miles22
Vanris (historical)1.8 miles22
Eshel (historical)1.9 miles20
Butler (historical)2.1 miles20

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640841The 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 1659922. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.