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.
Then and now
1897 to 1995The 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.


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
William T. Hendrick Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresPacheco 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,685 | |
| 2020 | 4,183 | +498 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
21 surveys from 42 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.
- 1897 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1915 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Walnut Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Walnut Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Concord quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Walnut Creek quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Walnut Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Walnut Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
516 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 214 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 79 |
| Smoking | 77 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 71 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 48 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | ALHAMBRA VALLEY RD BRION |
| 7 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Smoking | 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 |
| 7 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 6 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martinez | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Mt. Diablo Lime Marl Co. | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co. | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Martin | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Martin | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mt. Diablo Lime Marl Co. | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Location | Calcium | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Location | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Christen | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Christen | Stone | Prospect |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Flood | Pacheco | - | CHP reports several freeways including 680 and 24 have flooding in some or all lanes. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Pacheco | - | Sinkhole forming in 1-3 lanes of SB680 near Pacheco on ramp. Roadway beginning to buckle. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vine Hill | 2.0 miles | 34 | |
| Maltby | 2.2 miles | 34 | |
| Concord | 2.4 miles | 42 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 2.6 miles | 42 | |
| Four Corners | 2.7 miles | 42 | |
| Mountain View | 2.8 miles | 34 | |
| Muir | 3.0 miles | 41 | |
| Monsanto | 3.1 miles | 34 |
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 Pacheco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2752145 | 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 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.




















