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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.

Terminous within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1894 to 1997

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Terminous, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Terminous, surveyed 1894

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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.

Population over time

2 figures

Terminous 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.

YearPeople Change
2010381
2020429+48 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

41 since 2000

Regional 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/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
13 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
11 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitHARMS
9 August 2019Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Tornado (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.

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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
Eagle Tree (historical)6.1 miles22
Taison (historical)7.8 miles24
New Hope Landing7.9 miles24
Thornton8.6 miles24
New Hope (historical)8.7 miles24
Mokelumne City10.1 miles27
Henderson Village10.1 miles24
Woodbridge10.7 miles23

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 TerminousAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6142821The 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.