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Tonyville, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lindsay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93247. It lies near Lindsay Peak. The Survey maps it on the Lindsay quadrangle. 329 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Tonyville within Tulare County

Then and now

1928 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tonyville, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Tonyville, surveyed 1928

Population over time

2 figures

Tonyville grew from 316 to 329 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
2010316
2020329+13 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

401 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 401 fires within 5 miles of Tonyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,177 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 171 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
Arson/incendiarism171
Missing data/not specified/undetermined117
Equipment and vehicle use53
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Debris and open burning18
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitFRIANT
6 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE CALIFORIA #72
6 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCentral California DistrictZIKE
5 September 2003Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresCentral California DistrictZIKE
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitVALLEY
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitS.J.V.R. #11
30 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitDAVILA
3 September 2018Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionROCK 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Tonyville: 16 past producers, 8 prospects, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Magnesite, Copper, Manganese. 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
Lindsay ChrysopraseGemstonePast Producer
Yokohl ValleyTungstenOccurrence
E.A. Orton PropertyTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Earl Smith MineChromium, IronPast Producer1916
Gill Ranch Chromite DepositsChromium, IronPast Producer1917
Unnamed LocationTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Cole PropertyManganeseOccurrence
Cole ProspectManganeseProspect1918
Unnamed Manganese OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
GramCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonyville in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2023FloodTonyville-Public report of roadway flooding at the intersection of Rd. 212 and Ave. 256.
January 2023FloodTonyville-California Highway Patrol reported flooding in the roadway at the intersection of Ave 250 and Rd. 216 due to debris blocking Culvert.
December 2016Heavy RainTonyville-Mesowest indicated several reports of 1-1.5 in rain between 1600 PST and 0300 PST.

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
Lucca0.2 miles18
Sides (historical)0.5 miles23
Burr1.3 miles18
Grey Rocks (historical)1.5 miles23
Reynolds (historical)1.7 miles18
Vance1.8 miles18
Hawkins (historical)2.2 miles18
List2.7 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 TonyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6148896The 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 1661576. 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.