San Joaquin County (;

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: ''San Joaquín'', meaning " St. Joachim"), officially the County of San Joaquin, is a

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in the

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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 779,233. The

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is Stockton. San Joaquin County comprises the Stockton– Lodi– Tracy

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within the regional San Jose–

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– Oakland

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. The county is located in Northern California's Central Valley just east of the very highly populated nine-county

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region and is separated from the Bay Area by the Diablo Range of low mountains with its Altamont Pass. One of the smaller counties by area in California, it has a high population density and is growing rapidly due to overflow from the Bay Area's need for housing. The City of San Joaquin, despite sharing its name with the county, is located in

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History

San Joaquin County was one of the original United States counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. The county was named for the

San Joaquin River The San Joaquin River (; es, Río San Joaquín) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suis ...

which runs through it. In the early 19th century Lieutenant

Gabriel Moraga Gabriel Moraga (1765 – June 14, 1823) was a Sonoran-born Californio explorer and army officer. He was the son of the expeditionary José Joaquín Moraga who helped lead the de Anza Expedition to California in 1774, Like his father, Moraga is on ...

, commanding an expedition in the lower great California Central Valley, gave the name of ''San Joaquin'' (meaning Joachim) to the

, which springs from the southern Sierra Nevada. San Joaquin County is the site of the

San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven ...

's first permanent residence. Prior to incorporation in 1850, the area now encompassing San Joaquin County was inhabited by the

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and

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native peoples. These communities lived in villages throughout the region, consuming diverse diets that reflected the flora and fauna of the California Delta. Acorns from Valley Oak trees, salmon runs on the San Joaquin, Mokelumne, Calaveras, and Stanislaus rivers, and

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were staples of the native diet, which was supplemented with various native berries and plants. The native population of San Joaquin County fell dramatically during a statewide epidemic of malaria in 1828, and a subsequent rebellion of native peoples in the Central Valley, led by Chief

Estanislao Cucunuchi ( – 1838), baptized as Estanislao, was an indigenous ''alcalde'' of Mission San José and a member and leader of the Lakisamni tribe of the Yokuts people of northern California. He is famous for leading bands of armed Native America ...

. Between 1843 and 1846, during the era when California was a province of independent Mexico, five Mexican land grants were made in what would become San Joaquin County: Campo de los Franceses, Pescadero (Grimes), Pescadero (Pico), Sanjon de los Moquelumnes, and Thompson. The largest of these grants was the Rancho Campos de los Franceses, secured by Charles Weber and Guillermo Gulnac, which was eventually developed into the City of Stockton. As the Gold Rush drew miners to the Sierra Nevada, Stockton grew into a major logistical and mercantile hub for the San Joaquin Valley and Mother Lode, which allowed for the City and County populations to rise significantly between 1850 and 1870. As the state's gold economy waned in the 1870s, San Joaquin County transitioned into a major national center of agriculture, which it remains to this day. Reclamation of the California delta, which began in 1869, strongly benefited this agricultural growth. The importance of agriculture to the region's economy led to the creation of a dynamic industrial engineering sector in Stockton, Lodi, and nearby Rio Vista in the 1880s. Notably, the Sperry Flour Company,

Holt Manufacturing Company The Holt Manufacturing Company began with the 1883 founding of Stockton Wheel Service in Stockton, California, United States. Benjamin Holt, later credited with patenting the first workable crawler ("caterpillar") tractor design, incorporated ...

, the operation of

R. G. LeTourneau Robert Gilmour LeTourneau (November 30, 1888 – June 1, 1969), born in Richford, Vermont, he was a prolific inventor of earthmoving machinery and the founder of LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. His factories supplied LeTourneau machines which rep ...

, Samson Ironworks, and the canning empire of

Tillie Lewis Tillie Ehrlich-Weisberg Lewis (born Myrtle Ehrlich; July 13, 1901 - April 30, 1977), was a highly successful entrepreneur and leader in the mid 20th century food packing industry. She was an early promoter of the Italian San Marzano tomato to the ...

were firms of national and international significance. Holt Manufacturing, led by Benjamin Holt, would pioneer the industrial manufacturing and sales of the tractor, while R.G. LeTourneau patented the bulldozer in 1926.

Importance to railroads

The Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s utilized San Joaquin County's exceptionally flat terrain to construct a rail line from Sacramento to Stockton and then southwest through Altamont Pass to the San Francisco Bay. In 1909, a second railroad, the Western Pacific, utilized the same route through Stockton to reach the Bay Area. In the early 1900s, the Santa Fe Railroad constructed from Bakersfield and Fresno through Stockton north to reach Oakland. Smaller lines constructed at Stockton were the Tidewater Southern to Modesto and the Central California Traction to Sacramento. Both started as electrically powered. These railroads encouraged the growth of farms, orchards, and ranches in San Joaquin County and adjacent counties.

Tracy tire fire

On August 7, 1998, a

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ignited at S.F. Royster's Tire Disposal just south of Tracy on South MacArthur Drive, near Linne Rd. The tire dump held over 7 million illegally stored tires and was allowed to burn for more than two years before it was extinguished. Allowing the fire to burn was considered to be a better way to avoid groundwater contamination than putting it out. However, the cleanup cost $19 million and local groundwater was still discovered to be contaminated.

Geography

According to the

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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and , comprising 2.5%, is water. The county has a very low inland elevation and a very flat drainage basin for the San Joaquin River and its numerous tributaries. With the resulting exceptionally high water table, the county is a marshy and swampy delta with a tendency to flood in the spring with melting snow runoff from the Sierra Mountains. The geographical center of San Joaquin County is near Stockton at approximately 37°54'N 121°12'W (37.9,-121.2).

National protected area

* San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge (part)

Demographics

2020 census

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''

2011

Places by population, race, and income

2010 Census

The

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reported that San Joaquin County had a population of 685,306. The racial makeup of San Joaquin County was 349,287 (51.0%)

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, 51,744 (7.6%)

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, 7,196 (1.1%) Native American, 98,472 (14.4%) Asian, 3,758 (0.5%)

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, 131,054 (19.1%) from

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, and 43,795 (6.4%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 266,341 persons (38.9%). The

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population was 46,447, just under half (47%) of all Asian Americans in San Joaquin County, and as of 1990 have been the largest population of Asian Americans in the county.

2000

As of the

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of 2000, there were 563,598 people, 181,629 households, and 134,768 families residing in the county. The

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was 403 people per square mile (156/km²). There were 189,160 housing units at an average density of 135 per square mile (52/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 58.1%

, 6.7%

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, 1.1% Native American, 11.4% Asian, 0.4%

, 16.3% from

, and 6.1% from two or more races. 30.5% of the population were

of any race. 9.3% were of

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, 5.3%

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and 5.0%

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ancestry according to

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. 66.4% spoke

, 21.3%

, 2.2% Tagalog, 1.8%

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or Cambodian, 1.1%

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and 1.1%

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as their first language. There were 181,629 households, out of which 40.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.3% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.8% were non-families. 20.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.48. In the county, the population was spread out, with 31.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 99.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.2 males. The median income for a household in the county was $41,282, and the median income for a family was $46,919. Males had a median income of $39,246 versus $27,507 for females. The

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for the county was $17,365. About 13.5% of families and 17.7% of the population were below the

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, including 23.7% of those under age 18 and 10.0% of those age 65 or over.

Metropolitan statistical area

The

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has designated San Joaquin County as the Stockton–Lodi, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The

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ranked the Stockton–Lodi, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as the 76th most populous

of the United States as of July 1, 2012. The Office of Management and Budget has further designated the Stockton–Lodi, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area as a component of the more extensive

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, the 5th most populous

and

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of the United States as of July 1, 2012.

Government and policing

Deuel Vocational Institution, Tracy, California

County Government

The Government of San Joaquin County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution and

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as a general law county. Much of the Government of California is in practice the responsibility of county governments, such as the Government of San Joaquin County. The County government provides countywide services such as elections and voter registration, law enforcement, jails, vital records, property records, tax collection, public health, and social services. In addition the County serves as the local government for all unincorporated areas. Some chartered cities such as Stockton and Tracy provide their own municipal services such as police, public safety, libraries, parks and recreation, and zoning. Some other cities arrange to have the County provide some or all of these services on a contract basis. The County government is composed of the elected five-member four-year-term board of supervisors (BOS), which operates in a legislative, executive, and

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capacity; several other elected offices including the Sheriff, District Attorney, and Assessor; and numerous county departments and entities under the supervision of the

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. As of January 2019, the supervisors are: * Miguel Villapudua (District 1 and Chair), * Katherine Miller (District 2), * Tom Patti (District 3 and Vice Chair), * Charles Winn (District 4), and * Bob Elliott (District 5). In addition, several entities of the

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have jurisdiction conterminous with San Joaquin County, such as the San Joaquin County Superior Court, and the

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operates the Deuel Vocational Institution a state prison in

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San Joaquin County near Tracy.

Policing

The San Joaquin County sheriff provides court protection and jail administration for the entire county. It provides patrol and detective services for the unincorporated areas of the county. Lathrop contracts with the Sheriff for its police services. Municipalities within the county that have municipal police departments are: Stockton, 310,000; Tracy, 89,000; Manteca, 77,000; Lodi, 65,000; Lathrop, 23,000 (sheriff contract); Ripon, 17,000; Escalon, 7,200,

Politics

Voter registration

Cities by population and voter registration

Overview

In the

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, San Joaquin County is split between California's 9th and

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congressional districts, represented by and , respectively. In the California State Assembly, San Joaquin County is split between 3 legislative districts: * , * , and * . In the California State Senate, San Joaquin County is in . On November 4, 2008, San Joaquin County voted 65.5% in favor of

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which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages. For most of its history, San Joaquin County has been a Republican-leaning swing county, voting for the national winner in all but 4 presidential elections (1884, 1948, 1960, 1976) from 1880 to 2012. In 2016,

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became the first Democratic Party candidate who lost nationally to win the county, and she did so by a sizable margin of around 14 points. Conversely,

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posted the worst result in county history for a national Republican Party electoral college winner, being held to under 40% of the vote. In 2020, Trump vastly increased upon his 2016 results, securing more votes than any Republican candidate in history. Despite this, he only barely passed 40% due to a similarly large increase on the Democratic side.

Crime

County crime

Number of incidents reported and crime rate per 1,000 persons for each type:

Cities crime

Economy

Agriculture

As of 2018, the gross value of agricultural production in the county was $2.6 billion. The top product was almonds, followed by grapes, milk, and walnuts. San Joaquin County is home to one of the largest walnut processing facilities in the world, DeRuosi Nut. Another large company, Pacific State Bancorp (PSBC), was based here but was closed by the California Department of Financial Institutions on August 20, 2010.

Business and industry

San Joaquin County is home to several large manufacturing, general services, and agricultural companies, including Archer Daniels Midland,

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, Dart Container, Holz Rubber Company, Kubota Tractors, Lodi Iron Works, Miller Packing Company, Pacific Coast Producers, Tiger Lines, Valley Industries, and Woodbridge-Robert Mondavi. 3 As of 2019, about 260,000 people were employed in the county, with nearly 200,000 employed in private industry and about 44,500 employed in government. As of 2013, the goods movement industry is also an important part of the local economy, with an Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy and the

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Education

San Joaquin County is home to 18 public school districts and numerous private schools. K-12: * Escalon Unified School District *

Lammersville Joint Unified School District Lammersville Unified School district (LUSD) (formerly known as Lammersville Elementary School District) is a pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade unified school district in Mountain House, California, which serves the area west of Tracy and pa ...

Lincoln Unified School District Lincoln Unified School District is located in Stockton, California and serves more than 9,200 students at 13 "learning centers" throughout the northwestern region of the city. School Board Starting with the 2014 elections, there are five truste ...

* Linden Unified School District * Lodi Unified School District *

Manteca Unified School District Manteca Unified School District (MUSD) is a school district based in French Camp, Lathrop, Manteca, and Stockton, in California. About Schools in MUSD follow a modified traditional calendar with approximately 23,000 students. Elementary schoo ...

* Ripon Unified School District * Stockton Unified School District *

Tracy Unified School District Tracy Unified School District is a public school district in Tracy, California, United States. As of 2006-07, there were 23 schools in the district. Schools High schools *John C. Kimball High School *Tracy High School *Merrill F. West High Scho ...

- Covers some areas for K-12 and some for 9-12 only Secondary: *

Galt Joint Union High School District Galt Joint Union High School District (GJUHSD) is a high school district headquartered in Galt, California. It serves sections of Sacramento and San Joaquin counties.Oakdale Joint Unified School District The Oakdale Joint Unified School District serves approximately 5,200 students in Oakdale, California, USA. The Oakdale Union Elementary School District and the Oakdale Joint Union High School District were merged, to create the Oakdale Joint Uni ...

(while it is a unified school district, it only covers 9-12 in its sections in this county) Elementary: * Banta Elementary School District *

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Jefferson Elementary School District Jefferson Elementary School District is a K-8 school district headquartered in Daly City, San Mateo County, California, USA, serving the communities of Daly City, Colma, California, Colma, Broadmoor, California, Broadmoor and part of Pacifica, Cal ...

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* New Jerusalem Elementary School District *

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* Valley Home Joint Elementary School District School districts include: On June 8, 2010, Lammersville Unified School District was approved in Mountain House. The San Joaquin Delta Community College District is composed of

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located in Stockton and covers San Joaquin County as well as Rio Vista in

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, and a large portion of

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. A private university, the University of the Pacific, has its main campus in Stockton.

Media

San Joaquin County is in the Sacramento television market, and thus receives Sacramento media. '' The Record'', '' The Manteca Bulletin'', and '' The Lodi News-Sentinel'' are daily newspapers. ''Bilingual Weekly News'' publishes a weekly newspaper in both Spanish and English. ''Tracy Press'' also publishes a weekly newspaper. Big Monkey Group publishes four Stockton magazines: ''Weston Ranch Monthly'', ''Brookside Monthly'', ''Spanos Park Monthly'' and ''On the Mile''. ''Caravan'' is a local community arts and events monthly tabloid. ''The Central Valley Business Journal'' is a monthly business tabloid. ''Karima Magazine'' is a popular/consumer magazine covering the Central Valley as well as newsworthy events in the Bay Area. ''San Joaquin Magazine'' is a regional lifestyle magazine covering Stockton, Lodi, Tracy, and Manteca. ''The Downtowner'' is a free monthly guide to downtown Stockton's events, commerce, real estate, and other cultural and community happenings. ''Poets' Espresso Review'' is a periodical that has been based in Stockton, mostly distributed by mail, since summer of 2005. ''Artifact'' is a San Joaquin Delta College periodical based in Stockton since December 2006, featuring writing in all genres, photography, and visual media by students, staff and faculty as well as community members. ''The Pacifican'', University of the Pacific's newspaper since 1908 features News, Opinion, Lifestyles, and Sports pertinent to the Pacific campus and surrounding Stockton community.

In popular culture

The television show '' Sons of Anarchy'' was set in Charming, California, a fictional town in San Joaquin County.

Transportation

Major highways

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Interstate 580 * California 4

State Route 4 * California 12

State Route 12 * California 26

State Route 26 * California 33

State Route 33 * California 88

State Route 88 * California 99

State Route 99 * California 120

State Route 120 * California 132

State Route 132

Public transportation

San Joaquin Regional Transit District San Joaquin Regional Transit District (known as "San Joaquin RTD" or simply as RTD) is a transit district that provides bus service to the city of Stockton, California and the surrounding communities of Lodi, Ripon, Thornton, French Camp, La ...

provides city bus service within Stockton. RTD also runs intercity routes throughout the county, and subscription commuter routes to Livermore, Pleasanton, Sacramento, and Santa Clara County. The cities of Lodi, Escalon, Manteca, Tracy and Ripon operate their own bus systems.

Train and bus service

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buses and

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

trains both stop in Stockton. Amtrak's Oakland-Stockton-Fresno-Bakersfield ''

San Joaquins The ''San Joaquins'' is a passenger train service operated by Amtrak in California's San Joaquin Valley. Six daily round trips run between its southern terminus at Bakersfield and Stockton, with onward service to Sacramento (all round trips) an ...

'' trains stop at the San Joaquin Street Station. This is the former Santa Fe Railroad station in Stockton. Amtrak's Sacramento-Stockton-Fresno- Bakersfield "San Joaquin" trains stop at the Robert J. Cabral Station which is also used by

Altamont Corridor Express The Altamont Corridor Express (also known as ACE, formerly Altamont Commuter Express) is a commuter rail service in California, connecting Stockton and San Jose during peak hours only. ACE is named for the Altamont Pass, through which it runs ...

trains to San Jose which originate in Stockton. This is the former Southern Pacific Railroad station in Stockton. RTD Hopper is a public bus service operated by San Joaquin Regional Transit connecting Stockton to Ripon, Manteca, Tracy, Lodi, and Lathrop.

Airports

Stockton Metropolitan Airport features passenger service to

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, and

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, along with cargo service and general aviation. Other general aviation airports in the county include

Lodi Airport Lodi may refer to: Places Canada * Lodi, Ontario, a community in North Stormont, Ontario, Canada Italy * Lodi, Lombardy, in the Province of Lodi of the Lombardy region ** Treaty of Lodi, 1454 between Italian city-states ** Battle of Lodi, 1796 in ...

, Tracy Municipal Airport, and New Jerusalem Airport.

Port

The

is a major inland deepwater port in Stockton, California, located on the

before it joins the

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to empty into Suisun Bay, inland. The port sits on about , and occupies an island in the

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Communities

Cities

* Escalon * Lathrop * Lodi * Manteca *

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* Stockton (county seat) * Tracy

Census-designated places

* Acampo *

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* Collierville *

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* French Camp * Garden Acres * Kennedy * Lincoln Village * Linden * Lockeford * Morada * Mountain House *

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* Taft Mosswood * Terminous * Thornton * Victor * Waterloo * Woodbridge

Unincorporated communities

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* Goodmans Corner *

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* Vernalis *

Youngstown Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the largest city and county seat of Mahoning County. At the 2020 census, Youngstown had a city population of 60,068. It is a principal city of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area, which ...

Population ranking

The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of San Joaquin County. † ''county seat''

Notes

References

External links

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San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services (OES)

San Joaquin County Office of Education

San Joaquin County Superior Court

South San Joaquin Irrigation District
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