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277574, 2411383. Website. www .ci .patterson .ca .us. A fountain in one of Patterson's many roundabouts. Patterson is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States, located off Interstate 5. It is 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Tracy and is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Patterson Tract is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California. [2] Patterson Tract sits at an elevation of 328 feet (100 m). [ 2 ] The 2010 United States census reported Patterson Tract's population was 1,752.
Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) [1] was an American geochemist. Born in Mitchellville , Iowa , Patterson graduated from Grinnell College . He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California 's Bay Area, approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of San Francisco, and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a port for lumber and other goods.
The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state. It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km 2 ), [ 1] about 11% of ...
The Sweetwater Mountains (highest peak: Mount Patterson 11,654 feet (3,552 m) [2]) are a small mountain range in northern Mono County, California and western Lyon County, Nevada, separating the West Walker River from the East Walker River. Most of the range is only accessible by four wheel drive vehicle, on foot, or pack animal.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
Geography of California. Coordinates: 37°9′58″N 119°26′58″W. Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces. California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2 ), California is among the most geographically diverse states.