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Waukena, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Tulare census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93274. It stands on Cameron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waukena quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Waukena 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 Waukena, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Waukena, surveyed 1928

Population over time

2 figures

Waukena fell from 108 to 80 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
2010108
202080-28 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Waukena between 1992 and 2017, burning about 2,573 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning4
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 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY #121
4 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
15 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreTulare UnitCORTEZ
14 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresTulare UnitNUNES
12 September 1992Smokingunder an acreTulare UnitSTATE OF CALIF.# 40
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waukena in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
February 2024Funnel CloudWaukena-Pictures of a funnel cloud southwest of Tulare posted on Facebook.

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
Paige5.6 miles19
Turnbull (historical)6.2 miles19
Blanco7.1 miles19
Burling (historical)9.4 miles22
Octol9.7 miles20
Tulare9.8 miles22
Angiola10.5 miles22
Imhoff10.8 miles22

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 WaukenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6646158The 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 251266. 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.