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Trocha, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Earlimart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93215. The Survey maps it on the Delano East quadrangle.

Trocha within Tulare County

Then and now

1929 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Trocha, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Trocha, surveyed 1929

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Trocha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
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
27 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresTulare UnitRAILROAD
20 September 1992Smokingunder an acreTulare UnitDELGADO
14 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTulare UnitDHILLON
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitSANTILLANO
1 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTulare UnitBEE
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitD.E.IRRIGATION
5 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitTUALRE COUNTY #53

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trocha in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 flood. 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 2023FloodTrocha-California Highway Patrol reported Rd. 184 was closed between Ave. 24 to Ave. 32 due to flooding.

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
Jovista1.9 miles19
Richgrove2.1 miles20
Vestal4.4 miles20
Orris6.0 miles20
Radnor6.5 miles23
Ducor8.3 miles20
Earlimart8.9 miles21
Terra Bella12.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122571618The 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 1656646. 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.