Morada, California
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95212. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. 4,054 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1894 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresMorada grew from 3,828 to 4,054 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,828 | |
| 2020 | 4,054 | +226 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1894 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1908 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1939 USGS Bellota quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Bellota quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1968 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Lodi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
278 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Morada between 2002 and 2019, burning about 322 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined | 239 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 30 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morada in 2 storm reports between 2022 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2025 | Flood | Morada | - | California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding on the on and off ramps near California State Route 99 and Wilson Way. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Morada | - | Roadway flooding at Hammer Ln underpass at the railroad tracks just east of Lorraine Ave. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Akers | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| August | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Lincoln Village | 4.9 miles | 24 | |
| Orford | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| Garden Acres | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| Henderson Village | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Fair Oaks | 5.8 miles | 19 |
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 Morada | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3301194 | The 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 1867042. 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.










