Tarpey, California

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.

1923 1982

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.

• 1923 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:31680
• 1946 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:62500
• 1946 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:24000
• 1947 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 791 fires within 5 miles of Tarpey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 79 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Vanris (historical)
• Bronge (historical)
• Cameo
• Las Palmas
• Fort Camp (historical)
• Granz (historical)

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarpey in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 3 flood, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Fresno County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656355. 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.