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Stockton, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95202. It stands on Mormon Slough. The Survey maps it on the Stockton West quadrangle. 320,804 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Stockton within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1913 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Stockton, surveyed 1913

On record in Stockton

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 12 of 18 shown

Every listing in San Joaquin County

Population over time

2 figures

Stockton grew from 291,707 to 320,804 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
2010291,707
2020320,804+29,097 (+10%)

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

872 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 872 fires within 5 miles of Stockton between 2002 and 2019, burning about 526 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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/undetermined785
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTuolumne-Calaveras Unitnot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2010Missing 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 San Joaquin 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 Stockton: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
San Joaquin Brick PlantClayUnknown
Stockton Brick & Tile Co.ClayUnknown
Unnamed LocationClayUnknown

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stockton in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 4 flood, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindStockton$1,000,000no account filed
April 2026FloodStockton-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding in the westbound lanes of Cherokee Road and Sanguinetti Lane.
February 2026FloodStockton-California Highway Patrol reported flooding in the slow lane.
February 2024FloodStockton-California Highway of Patrol reports the Alpine Ave on-ramp to I-5 N is flooded.
January 2024FloodStockton-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding from heavy rain.
March 2023HailStockton-The public reported hail with hail stones up to an inch in Stockton. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2019Flash FloodStockton-There were numerous reports of roadway flooding in Stockton due to heavy rain and large amounts of small accumulating hail on May 19th. Law enforcement reported March Lane and Quail Lakes being shut down along with Hammer Lane between Lorraine Ave and Girardi Way due to flooding.
March 1998Funnel CloudStockton-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Stockton-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Stockton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Joaquin 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
The Homestead (historical)1.3 miles19
Fair Oaks1.7 miles19
August2.1 miles19
Country Club2.8 miles19
Kennedy2.8 miles19
Akers2.8 miles19
Garden Acres3.3 miles20
Lincoln Village3.8 miles24

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 StocktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q49240The 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 1659872. 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.