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6 unusual facts about San Joaquin Valley


Dean Jewett Locke

Realizing that it was more prosperous to own land, he and his brothers, George and Elmer, built a small ranch along the Mokelumne River in the San Joaquin Valley in 1851.

George Miller, Jr.

Roosevelt and Douglas at first encouraged and supported him for the position, but then "double-crossed" Miller, who was opposed by Malone, and instead chose a little-known man from the San Joaquin Valley.

Heliolonche joaquinensis

It is found in the San Joaquin Valley from San Benito and Fresno counties in the north and Kern and Santa Barbara counties in the south.

New Appalachia

New Appalachia is the concept that the quality of life in the San Joaquin Valley of California is comparable or worse than the traditionally impoverished Appalachia region of the Appalachian Mountains and therefore shares similar hardships.

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

Thomas Jefferson Mayfield (1843–1928) led a remarkable double life in the early decades of California statehood, living his boyhood as an adopted member of the Choinumni (Choinumne) branch of the Yokuts tribe in the San Joaquin Valley, then rejoining the dominant Anglo-American community throughout his long adulthood.

Tri-Valley Taboo

Despite their name, the Taboo is not based in the Tri-Valley of the San Francisco Bay Area, but rather in the North San Joaquin Valley area of the Central Valley region.


Aguaje de Las Berendas

Aguaje de Las Berendas, or Antelope Springs, is a spring in located on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, at the foot of the foothills of the Diablo Range, in Merced County, California.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

Ethel Hall

Ethel Hall (1898 - 1927) was an American silent film actress who died at the age of 29 on June 29, 1927 when her boat capsized in the rapids of the Merced River near the town of Merced in the San Joaquin Valley.

Giant kangaroo rat

It inhabits less than a mere 2% of its original range and can now be found only in isolated areas west of the San Joaquin Valley, including the Carrizo Plain, the Elkhorn Plain, and the Kettleman Hills.

Mildred Lillie

Lille was born in Ida Grove, Iowa, but moved with her mother to California's San Joaquin Valley as a child following her parent's failed marriage.

Otto von Sadovszky

The languages were or are spoken in an area from Monterey to Bodega Bay and Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley, and by 6,000 Mansi and 17,000 Khanty, east of the Urals.

Steve Archer

Born Leslie Steven Mark Archer in Mojave, California, US, the son of an Assemblies of God pastor, he began singing with his brother, Tim in their father's church in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California at age nine.

Yellow-headed Blackbird

The only regions of the United States where these blackbirds are permanent residents are the San Joaquin Valley and the Lower Colorado River Valley of Arizona and California.


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Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son.

New Appalachia

The San Joaquin Valley consists of the southern half of the Central Valley, between the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.

The Grapevine

The Grapevine, a road grade that ascends from California's San Joaquin Valley to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains