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Westhaven, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Huron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93234. The Survey maps it on the Westhaven quadrangle. It stands 279 feet above sea level.

Westhaven within Fresno 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 Westhaven, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Westhaven, surveyed 1929

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Westhaven between 1992 and 2018, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitAQUEDUCT
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitGALE
22 August 2009Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHURON
11 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitLASSEN
8 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHURON # 16
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHURON
4 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitHURON CITY #30
30 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitHURON 79

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westhaven in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWesthaven$25,000Three power poles were slightly blown over and a trampolene was blown over east of the intersection of Gale Ave. and Howard Ave.
March 2011FloodWesthaven$1,000The CHP reported flooding on Lassen Avenue at the Fresno-Kings County line.
March 2024FloodWesthaven-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on SR 198 near Goldenrod Ave.
February 2023FloodWesthaven-California Highway Patrol reported SR 198 eastbound was flooded between Howard Ave. and Bishop Ave.
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Westhaven-NWS storm survey team determined that an EF0 tornado touched down 6 miles east of Huron and was on the ground for less than 1 minute. Radar velocity profiles estimated 70 mph winds. Video of the circulation was posted on several social media networks.
May 2019HailWesthaven-Western Farm Press reported hail up to a half inch in diameter accumulated to around an inch on the ground and did considerable damage to cotton, onions, tomatoes and pistachios.
December 2019Funnel CloudWesthaven-Public report with photo posted on Twitter of a funnel cloud west of Lemoore NAS.
March 2006HailWesthaven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Vanguard2.7 miles19
Huron6.0 miles23
Calflax9.8 miles19
Turk12.6 miles22
Schilling13.3 miles22
Westside14.2 miles18
Lanare14.5 miles22
Robinson (historical)14.6 miles18

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 WesthavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7988874The 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 251403. 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.