2015 Map of Patterson

About this map

Patterson sits at the nexus of California's industrial-scale water management and the eastern foothills of the Diablo Range. The landscape is defined by the massive parallel arteries of the Governor Edmund G Brown California Aqueduct and the Delta-Mendota Canal, which cut a diagonal path between the agricultural flats and the rising terrain. These engineered waterways contrast with the natural drainage patterns of Del Puerto Cr and Salado Cr, which emerge from the deep cuts of Del Puerto Canyon and Black Gulch. In the northeast, a dense grid of irrigation channels including Lateral Six S and Lateral M supports the local agriculture. The town's layout is notably distinct, featuring a radial street pattern centered near S 1st St and N 1st St, a design that radiates outward into the surrounding Stanislaus County farmland.