Terminous, California
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Thornton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95242. It lies near Devils Isle. The Survey maps it on the Terminous quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It lies 7 feet below sea level.
Then and now
1894 to 1997The same ground, surveyed 103 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1894 against another survey:
On record in Terminous
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Terminous Culling Chutelisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresTerminous grew from 381 to 429 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 | 381 | |
| 2020 | 429 | +48 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1910 USGS Headreach quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Terminous quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1978 USGS Terminous quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Terminous quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
41 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Terminous between 2000 and 2019, burning about 65 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
| 2 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 13 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 11 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | HARMS |
| 9 August 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terminous in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Terminous | - | A brief, weak EF-U tornado touched down in a field with no reports of damage or injury. Video evidence received from trained weather spotter. Peak wind unknown with a width of less than 50 feet and path length of less than 100 feet. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Tree (historical) | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Taison (historical) | 7.8 miles | 24 | |
| New Hope Landing | 7.9 miles | 24 | |
| Thornton | 8.6 miles | 24 | |
| New Hope (historical) | 8.7 miles | 24 | |
| Mokelumne City | 10.1 miles | 27 | |
| Henderson Village | 10.1 miles | 24 | |
| Woodbridge | 10.7 miles | 23 |
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 Terminous | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6142821 | 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 1659971. 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.











