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Pacheco, California

42 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Central Contra Costa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94553. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Creek quadrangle. 4,183 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 75 feet above sea level.

Pacheco within Contra Costa County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pacheco, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Pacheco, surveyed 1897

On record in Pacheco

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

Pacheco grew from 3,685 to 4,183 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
20103,685
20204,183+498 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 surveys from 42 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

516 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 516 fires within 5 miles of Pacheco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 901 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 79 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/undetermined214
Arson/incendiarism79
Smoking77
Equipment and vehicle use71
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
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 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSanta Clara UnitALHAMBRA VALLEY RD BRION
7 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSanta Clara Unitnot named
7 September 2010Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Contra Costa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Pacheco: 7 occurrences, 5 past producers, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Limestone, General. 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
MartinezStone, DimensionOccurrence
Mt. Diablo Lime Marl Co.Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co.CalciumPast Producer
MartinStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
MartinStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mt. Diablo Lime Marl Co.CalciumPast Producer
Unnamed LocationCalciumProspect
Unnamed LocationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
ChristenStoneOccurrence
ChristenStoneProspect

Every working recorded in Contra Costa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pacheco in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 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
December 2019FloodPacheco-CHP reports several freeways including 680 and 24 have flooding in some or all lanes.
February 2017FloodPacheco-Sinkhole forming in 1-3 lanes of SB680 near Pacheco on ramp. Roadway beginning to buckle.

Every storm recorded in Contra Costa 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
Vine Hill2.0 miles34
Maltby2.2 miles34
Concord2.4 miles42
Pleasant Hill2.6 miles42
Four Corners2.7 miles42
Mountain View2.8 miles34
Muir3.0 miles41
Monsanto3.1 miles34

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 PachecoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2752145The 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 1659330. 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.