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Galt, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Galt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95632. The Survey maps it on the Galt quadrangle. 25,383 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Galt within Sacramento County

Then and now

1894 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Galt, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Galt, surveyed 1894

On record in Galt

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Galt grew from 23,647 to 25,383 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
201023,647
202025,383+1,736 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Galt between 1993 and 2014, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
31 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use7.5 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitMACKVILLE
3 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitPROUTY
29 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado Unitnot named
22 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCentral California DistrictSILVERADO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sacramento County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galt in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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 2025FloodGalt-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding along State Route 99 North and Simmerhorn Road offramp with a large puddle under the bridge due to heavy rain.
January 2019FloodGalt-California Highway Patrol reported heavy rain caused flooding of Highway 99 in Galt.

Every storm recorded in Sacramento 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
Twin Cities2.6 miles22
Need3.5 miles22
Herald4.1 miles25
Conley (historical)4.9 miles25
Hicksville5.2 miles22
Centralia5.4 miles25
Arno (historical)5.8 miles22
Cicero (historical)8.0 miles25

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 GaltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q985262The 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 277522. 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.