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Oakdale, California

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Oakdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95361. The Survey maps it on the Oakdale quadrangle. 23,181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 157 feet above sea level.

Oakdale within Stanislaus County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakdale, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Oakdale, surveyed 1915

On record in Oakdale

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Oakdale grew from 20,675 to 23,181 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
201020,675
202023,181+2,506 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 213 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined98
Equipment and vehicle use39
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras UnitF#672 STEWARD
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitPERSIMMON
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oakdale: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Atlas Rock CoStoneUnknown
Oakdale Rock PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Standard MaterialsGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakdale in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2017LightningOakdale$200,000Lightning hit a tree in Oakdale, CA, causing a fire in nearby electrical transformer and resulting in a power outage. Three homes and a few vehicles were reported damaged.
May 2018LightningOakdale$20,000A lightning strike in Oakdale ignited a fire in several Italian cypress trees. The flames spread to nearby vegetation and then to a mobile home, which sustained moderate damage. A second mobile home sustained minor heat damage.
December 1996Tornado (F1)Oakdale$10,000no account filed
January 2023Thunderstorm WindOakdale$1,000The California Highway Patrol reported a large tree down blocking both lanes of SR120, with the road closed. A gust of 42 mph was reported at nearby Modesto Airport.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindOakdale$1,000Tree down across 26 Mile Road. There was a gust to 42 mph at Modesto Airport.
April 2016HailOakdale$100Half inch hail, 1 to 2 inches deep, covered area roads. This resulted in slick road conditions and did some minor damage to a mobile home carport, from the weight of the accumulated hail.
May 2019Funnel CloudOakdale-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud in Oakdale in Stanislaus County around 3:30 pm. No damage or touchdown was observed.
March 1996HailOakdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stanislaus 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
Adela1.7 miles15
East Oakdale2.7 miles15
Claribel3.8 miles16
Riverbank5.1 miles17
Valley Home5.5 miles17
Arnold (historical)5.6 miles19
Claus6.7 miles17
Orange Blossom7.4 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 OakdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984607The 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 277564. 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.