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Traver, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dinuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93673. The Survey maps it on the Traver quadrangle. 731 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Traver within Tulare County

Then and now

1927 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Traver, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Traver, surveyed 1927

Population over time

2 figures

Traver grew from 713 to 731 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
2010713
2020731+18 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Traver between 1992 and 2009, burning about 546 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use63
Arson/incendiarism57
Debris and open burning19
Smoking17
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitKIMURA
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitJOST
4 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitNIELSON
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTulare UnitSINGH
3 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitJOHNSON
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitALTA #9
27 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit5
27 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreTulare UnitFRANCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traver in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2017FloodTraver$500,000Flooding occurred at the Riverland RV resort between Kingsburg and Traver as the result of a levee breech on the Kings River which occurred on June 19.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindTraver$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a tree blown down into the roadway on southbound SR 99 just north of the Merritt Dr. offramp in Traver.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindTraver$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a tree in the roadway on northbound SR 99 south of the Road 284 off ramp.
June 2011FloodTraver$1,000The Highway patrol reported flooding on Road 40 at Highway 384.
March 2025FloodTraver-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along SR 99 in Traver at the Merritt Dr. offramps.
March 2023FloodTraver-California Highway Patrol reported a vehicle hydroplaned in high water on northbound SR 99 between Traver and Kingsburg.
February 2014FloodTraver-Flooding on SR 99 and 384 near Traver.
April 2012Funnel CloudTraver-Trained weather spotter viewed a persistent funnel cloud that never reached the ground, near Traver on April 11th, 2012.
April 2012HailTraver-NWS Meteorologist tracked a wide swath of accumulating large hail across northern Tulare County. Agricultural damages from these recent storms was in the millions.
April 2012HailTraver-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindTraver-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
London2.6 miles21
Delft Colony4.4 miles23
Smyrna (historical)7.6 miles22
Goshen8.0 miles19
Dinuba8.0 miles23
Monson8.3 miles19
Ivory8.5 miles23
North Dinuba9.1 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 TraverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2583635The 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 250599. 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.