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.
Then and now
1916 to 1978The 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.


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
Patterson Branch Librarylisted 1990- Plaza Buildinglisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresPatterson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20,413 | |
| 2020 | 23,781 | +3,368 (+16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1916 USGS Patterson quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1919 USGS Orestimba quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Orestimba quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Patterson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
131 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 67 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | I 5 / SPERRY RD |
| 4 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Clara Unit | OAK |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | FINK |
| 25 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 2 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | not named |
| 19 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 17 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.8 acres | Santa Clara Unit | SPERRY 4 |
| 15 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Santa Clara Unit | POPPY AV / MARISA DR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Zacharias Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1996 | Funnel Cloud | Patterson | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanormer (historical) | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Jet | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Crows Landing | 6.2 miles | 21 | |
| Westley | 6.5 miles | 20 | |
| Grayson | 6.9 miles | 20 | |
| Diablo Grande | 8.4 miles | 19 | |
| Stomar | 8.8 miles | 19 | |
| Tuolumne City (historical) | 9.1 miles | 20 |
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 Patterson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q938238 | 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 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.








