Map of Pacheco CDP

Pacheco is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California. The population was 3,685 at the 2010 census. It is bounded by Martinez to the north and west, Concord to the east, and Pleasant Hill to the south.

Pacheco CDP overview:
Name:	Pacheco CDP
LSAD Code:	57
LSAD Description:	CDP (suffix)
State:	California
County:	Contra Costa County
Elevation:	75 ft (23 m)
Total Area:	0.740 sq mi (1.917 km²)
Land Area:	0.740 sq mi (1.917 km²)
Water Area:	0 sq mi (0 km²) 0%
Total Population:	3,685
Population Density:	5,000/sq mi (1,900/km²)
ZIP code:	94553
Area code:	925
FIPS code:	0654764

Online Interactive Map

Pacheco online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

Pacheco location map. Where is Pacheco CDP?

Pacheco location on the U.S. Map. Where is Pacheco CDP. — Pacheco location on the U.S. Map.

Pacheco location on the California map. Where is Pacheco CDP. — Location of Pacheco in California.

History

The town was laid out in 1857 by Dr. J. H. Carothers and named for Salvio Pacheco, grantee of the Rancho Monte del Diablo Mexican land grant. A post office operated at Pacheco from 1859 to 1913 and from 1955 to the present.

Pacheco was briefly a prosperous commercial center. During this period, Pacheco Slough was deep enough to receive ocean-based shipping. From 1851 to nearly 1873, Pacheco was the county’s commercial center: the shipping port for the grain grown in the Ygnacio, San Ramon and Tassajara valleys, with warehouses, a flour mill and shops along the creek. Walnut Creek, (then known as Pacheco Creek), then flowed deep and free into Suisun Bay. For over 20 years, Pacheco was a major shipping port for central Contra Costa County.

The destruction of Pacheco’s Walnut Creek shipping channel occurred gradually over many years and for many reasons. Man-made ecologic damage eventually combined with a series of fires and floods, as well as an earthquake, destroyed the town and filled the Slough with silt during the 1860s, to ruin Pacheco’s growing prosperity just as similar ones had done to the great classic ports of Ephesus and Troy. Pacheco was subsequently depopulated by the attraction of the nearby town of Todos Santos, later to be known as Concord.

Pacheco Road Map

Pacheco city Satellite Map

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 square kilometres), all of it land.

Climate

This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Pacheco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated “Csb” on climate maps.