Information About the Stockton area

Stockton, the county seat of San Joaquin County, is currently the 13th largest city in the U.S. state of California. Stockton is located in Northern California south of Sacramento and north of Modesto. Stockton's population estimate for January 1, 2009 according to the California Department of Finance, is 290,409. Sorrounding Interstate 5, State Route 99 and State Route 4, Stockton is connected westward with San Francisco Bay by the river's 78-mile channel, and is, with Sacramento, one of the state's two inland sea ports. Stockton is surrounded by the farmland of the California Central Valley. In and around Stockton are thousands of miles of waterways and rivers that make up the California Delta. It is also a rail center and a processing and distribution point for farm products and wines from the Central Valley.