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Collierville, California

San Joaquin County, California, USA

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3662315 ↗
Source-derived summary

Collierville is a census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California. Collierville sits at an elevation of 62 feet (19 m). The 2020 United States census reported Collierville's population was 2,094.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 6.6 square miles (17.1 km2), 99.85% of it land, and 0.15% of it water.

Demographics

Collierville first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, Collierville had a population of 2,094 and a population density of 317.5 inhabitants per square mile (122.6/km2). The median age was 40.5 years. 23.3% of residents were under the age of 18, 9.8% were aged 18 to 24, 22.7% were aged 25 to 44, 26.6% were aged 45 to 64, and 17.5% were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 104.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 102.6 males age 18 and over.

65.7% of residents lived in urban areas, while 34.3% lived in rural areas.

Editorial summary

“Collierville, California” enters the record as san Joaquin County, California, USA. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Collierville, California and Joaquin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Collierville, California and Joaquin.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Collierville, California” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Collierville, California and Joaquin provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3662315. Authority coordinates are 38.213, -121.265. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2010.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Collierville, California”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Collierville, California primary sources, Collierville, California archive and Collierville research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Collierville, California”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Collierville, California” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.