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Tracy, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Tracy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95376. The Survey maps it on the Tracy quadrangle. 93,000 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Tracy within San Joaquin County

Then and now

1916 to 1989

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tracy, surveyed 1989
Topographic sheet of Tracy, surveyed 1916

On record in Tracy

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Tracy grew from 82,922 to 93,000 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
201082,922
202093,000+10,078 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

374 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 374 fires within 5 miles of Tracy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,112 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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/undetermined286
Equipment and vehicle use33
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking15
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
30 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

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Tracy: 6 producers, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kerlinger PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tracy PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Huck MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marks PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pereira PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stanfield & MoodySand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Teekay Manganese PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Teichert AggregateSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Tracy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in San Joaquin County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tracy in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 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
December 2005Tornado (F0)Tracy$20,000no account filed
March 1998Tornado (F0)Tracy$1,000no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudTracy-no account filed
January 1997Flash FloodTracy-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
Wainwright Village (historical)0.3 miles22
Banta3.1 miles22
Carbona3.1 miles22
Mountain House6.9 miles24
Mossdale6.9 miles22
San Joaquin River Club9.0 miles20
Lathrop9.7 miles22
West Manteca10.0 miles22

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 TracyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953409The 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 277621. 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.