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Trigo, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Madera Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93636. The Survey maps it on the Gregg quadrangle. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Trigo within Madera County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trigo, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Trigo, surveyed 1922

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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

692 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 692 fires within 5 miles of Trigo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,042 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 43 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/undetermined368
Equipment and vehicle use153
Debris and open burning62
Arson/incendiarism43
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Smoking22
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1996Debris and open burning35 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitWAGNER
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVE 11 / RD 33.5
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitRD 32 / AVE 12
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitKLEINE
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitAVENUE
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitROADSIDE
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitGOLDEN STATE
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreMerced-Mariposa Unit12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madera County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Trigo: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Trigo PitClayProducer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Friant PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Solo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madera County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trigo in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2012FloodTrigo$25,000The Highway Patrol reported flooding and road closure of Highway 41 at Avenue 15.
November 2018Thunderstorm WindTrigo$10,000Public report of a large pepper tree falling onto a guest house in a backyard in Madera Ranchos.
January 2023FloodTrigo-Public report of roadway flooding on Rd. 36 just south of Ave. 15 in Madera Ranchos.

Every storm recorded in Madera 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
Lankershim (historical)1.9 miles19
Irrigosa2.1 miles19
Gregg2.5 miles19
Borden3.7 miles16
Parksdale4.1 miles16
Madera Ranchos4.4 miles19
Parkwood4.6 miles16
Bonadelle Ranchos5.1 miles19

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 TrigoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7841758The 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 1660027. 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.