Tranquillity, California
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the San Joaquin-Tranquillity census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93668. The Survey maps it on the Tranquillity quadrangle. 805 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 164 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1924 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresTranquillity grew from 799 to 805 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 | 799 | |
| 2020 | 805 | +6 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1924 USGS Tranquillity quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Tranquillity quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Tranquillity quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tranquillity quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Santa Cruz quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Monterey quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Mendota quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
148 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Tranquillity between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,216 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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 | 58 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | FKU-11214 |
| 9 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | FKU 38759 |
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | S DENVER AV /S JAMES RD |
| 7 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | CLAYTON INC. |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | DAVIDSON DR SAN_JOAQUIN |
| 5 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | FKU 9254 |
| 29 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | FKU #41957 |
| 24 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 800 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | ADAMS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno City (historical) | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| San Joaquin | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Ingle | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Jamesan | 5.4 miles | 18 | |
| Caldwell (historical) | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Levis | 8.3 miles | 17 | |
| Mendota | 9.9 miles | 20 | |
| Cantua Creek | 10.7 miles | 18 |
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 Tranquillity | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2358592 | 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 1660022. 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.










