1916 Map of Patterson

About this map

Patterson emerges as a developing agricultural hub in the San Joaquin Valley on this 1916 preliminary edition survey. The map captures the town's early grid system and its critical connection to the Southern Pacific railroad, which runs northwest toward Vanormer. To the west, the landscape shifts abruptly from flat valley floor to the dramatic incisions of the Diablo Range foothills. Deep drainages like Puerto Canyon and Black Gulch cut through the rising terrain, while Puerto Creek and Salado Creek flow toward the cultivated fields below. This document is a cooperation between the Department of the Interior and the State of California, recording a specific moment when rural education centers like Haight School served the growing farming community before more modern irrigation and infrastructure reshaped the Stanislaus County landscape.