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Tiffin

Ghost town · Tulare County, California

Lindsay quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1928, 1:31,680)
Lindsay quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1928, 1:31,680) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Tiffin is a ghost town in Tulare County, California. It is one of 26 former communities in Tulare County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 9th among the 58 California counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Tiffin as a historical populated place on the Lindsay topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 36.1836° N, 119.0279° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleLindsay
Elevation468 ft
Nearest living townStrathmore, CA
Distance to it3.3 miles
GNIS feature ID1661920
Coordinates36.18356, -119.02788

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Tiffin today, aerial view
Lindsay quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1928, 1:31,680)

Left: Lindsay quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1928, 1:31,680), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Tiffin is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Strathmore, CA (population 3,244), about 3.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 468 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Tiffin?

Tiffin is in Tulare County, California, at 36.1836, -119.0279.

How many ghost towns are in Tulare County?

Tulare County, California has 26 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.