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Lathrop, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Manteca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95330. The Survey maps it on the Lathrop quadrangle. 28,701 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 23 feet above sea level.

Lathrop within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1915 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lathrop, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Lathrop, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Lathrop grew from 18,023 to 28,701 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
201018,023
202028,701+10,678 (+59%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

49 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Lathrop between 2005 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
12 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
19 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
11 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 July 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Joaquin County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lathrop: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lathrop Phos-Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Manteca PlantCalciumProducer
Oakwood Lake PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alegre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lathrop in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 3 flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2005Tornado (F0)Lathrop$10,000no account filed
January 2026FloodLathrop-California Highway Patrol reported parts of the roadway washing out at State Route 120 and Yosemite Ave.
March 2023FloodLathrop-Law enforcement reported roadway flooding across all lanes at State Route 120 West and Interstate 5 South.
March 2023FloodLathrop-San Joaquin County Sheriff issued evacuation orders for 2 locations along the San Joaquin River starting on March 19, 2023. Those two locations include Airport Court, Manteca and Haven Acres Marina in Lathrop due to heavy rain and snowmelt. Evacuation orders were lifted on April 11, 2023.

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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
West Manteca2.2 miles22
Mossdale3.1 miles22
Manteca3.7 miles19
Turner4.0 miles19
French Camp4.2 miles19
Summer Home5.1 miles19
Banta6.9 miles22
Five Corners7.0 miles19

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 LathropAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q986862The 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 1658948. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.