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Patterson's land traces to Rancho Del Puerto, a Mexican land grant of 13,340 acres made to Mariano and Pedro Hernandez in 1844, whose U.S. patent was signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

John D. Patterson bought the rancho in 1866 for $5,400, and after his death his son Thomas W. Patterson subdivided the family land into ranches and a townsite, modeling the new town's design on Washington, D.C.

The Patterson Colony map was filed with the Stanislaus County recorder on December 13, 1909, and sales of ranch properties and city lots began immediately afterward.

Patterson incorporated on December 22, 1919, becoming the third city in Stanislaus County to incorporate, after an earlier incorporation vote in February 1918 failed by a margin of 124 to 116.

Patterson is known as the 'Apricot Capital of the World,' a nickname its chamber of commerce officially approved in May 1971, and the city celebrates with the Apricot Fiesta in downtown Patterson during the first weekend of June.

Patterson's Center Building, built in 1910 as the Patterson Ranch Company's sales and operations office, now houses the Patterson Museum, and the neighboring Del Puerto Hotel stood beside it until it was destroyed by fire in 1996.

Patterson had a population of 23,781 at the 2020 census, with about 6,500 households averaging 3.78 people each, among the largest average household sizes of any Stanislaus County city.

Patterson has grown rapidly with Bay Area spillover, rising from 8,626 residents in 1990 to 20,413 in 2010 and 23,781 in 2020.

Patterson lies off Interstate 5 about 27 miles southeast of Tracy and belongs to the Modesto metropolitan area.

The farmland around Patterson is planted with apricot, almond, and walnut orchards and row crops including dried beans, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, peas, and melons.