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Patterson, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Patterson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95363. It stands on Salado Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patterson quadrangle. 23,781 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 102 feet above sea level.

Patterson within Stanislaus County

Then and now

1916 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Patterson, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Patterson, surveyed 1916

On record in Patterson

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Patterson grew from 20,413 to 23,781 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
201020,413
202023,781+3,368 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Patterson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,444 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use47
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitI 5 / SPERRY RD
4 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSanta Clara UnitOAK
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFINK
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
2 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSanta Clara Unitnot named
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
17 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresSanta Clara UnitSPERRY 4
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSanta Clara UnitPOPPY AV / MARISA DR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stanislaus County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Patterson: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Zacharias Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stanislaus County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patterson in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 funnel cloud. 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
February 1996Funnel CloudPatterson-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
Vanormer (historical)2.1 miles19
Jet3.1 miles21
Crows Landing6.2 miles21
Westley6.5 miles20
Grayson6.9 miles20
Diablo Grande8.4 miles19
Stomar8.8 miles19
Tuolumne City (historical)9.1 miles20

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 PattersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q938238The 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 277574. 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.