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Tipton, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Tipton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93272. It stands on Mitchell Slough. The Survey maps it on the Tipton quadrangle. 2,519 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Tipton within Tulare County

Then and now

1925 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tipton, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Tipton, surveyed 1925

Population over time

2 figures

Tipton fell from 2,543 to 2,519 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
20102,543
20202,519-24 (-1%)

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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Tipton between 1992 and 2018, burning about 938 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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/undetermined41
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism33
Railroad operations and maintenance19
Smoking18
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreTulare UnitSOUTHERN PACIFIC 22
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitSOUTHERN PACIFIC 23
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTulare UnitTURKEY # 4
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresTulare UnitSTATE OF CA #100
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitSIMOES
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTulare UnitALEXANDER-EDISON#5
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTulare UnitST.OF CA#111

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare 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 Tipton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tipton in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 funnel cloud, 3 flood, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
September 2017Thunderstorm WindTipton$10,000California Highway Patrol reported several trees down on northbound State Route 99 just south of the State Route 190 interchange.
February 1993Tornado (F0)Tipton$5,000A weather spotter reported that a tornado knocked over a power pole in Tipton then rose into the clouds.
January 2023FloodTipton-Public report of a large standing pool of water all the way into the northbound lanes of SR. 99 at the Ave. 152 offramp in Tipton.
March 2023FloodTipton-California Highway Patrol reported flooding on S. Thompson Rd. near E. Klindera Ave. in Tipton.
May 2019Funnel CloudTipton-Posts on Facebook and Twitter of a funnel cloud near Tipton.
February 2017FloodTipton-California Highway Patrol reported road flooding on Road 128 between State Route and Avenue 152 east of Tipton.
November 2014Funnel CloudTipton-A funnel cloud was reported near Road 152 and Avenue 128 and verified with pictures from the media.
March 2006Funnel CloudTipton-no account filed
March 2006HailTipton-no account filed
May 2003LightningTipton-no account filed
January 2001Funnel CloudTipton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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
Alfac (historical)1.9 miles20
Quail3.5 miles20
Lairds Corner4.3 miles22
Octol4.5 miles20
Lowes Corner4.9 miles22
Pixley6.4 miles21
Woodville6.4 miles22
Pleasant Grove (historical)7.7 miles22

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 TiptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2849923The 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 1652801. 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.