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Westside, California

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Huron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93624. The Survey maps it on the Westside quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Westside within Fresno County

Then and now

1912 to 1987

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westside, surveyed 1987
Topographic sheet of Westside, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

29 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Westside between 1993 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitS COLUSA AV / FRESNO COAL
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitW OAKLAND AV /S EL DORADO
3 September 1995Smoking1.0 acresFresno-Kings Unit37835
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitLASSEN
11 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFRESNO
6 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitCOALINGA
5 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitMOUNT WHITNEY
6 July 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU 6908

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westside in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
February 2011FloodWestside$1,000The California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Mount Whitney Avenue at the California Aqueduct.

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
Five Points2.8 miles18
Calflax4.4 miles19
Helm9.3 miles17
Nares (historical)9.6 miles17
Burrel10.2 miles22
Lanare11.2 miles22
Bender (historical)11.5 miles22
Cantua Creek11.7 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 WestsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7989668The 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 251420. 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.