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Learn about the history, academics, arts, and athletics of San Joaquin Delta College, a public community college in Stockton, California. The college serves a district area of over 24,000 students and offers Associate of Arts degree programs and certificates.
Marc Reisner, A Dangerous Place (2003) The Delta was formerly located at the bottom of a large inland sea in the Central Valley, which formed as the uplift of the California Coast Ranges blocked off drainage from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific. About 560,000 years ago, water breached the mountains, carving out the present-day Carquinez Strait and San Francisco Bay. The drainage of all the ...
San Joaquin County is a county in Northern California's Central Valley, with Stockton as its county seat. It was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850, and has a history of agriculture, industry, and railroads.
Old River is a tidal distributary of the San Joaquin River that flows through the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. It has a reverse flow due to water pumping projects, and forms the boundary between San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties.
Kings Island (formerly Bra's Island) is an island in the Old River in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, 9.3 miles (15 km) southwest of Stockton. [1] The small 8.6-acre (3.5 ha) island is the smallest of a cluster of delta islands including Eucalyptus Island, Widdows Island, Victoria Island , and ...
McDonald Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, 53 km (33 mi) south of Sacramento. [1] [2] The 2,400 ha (5,900-acre) island is bounded on the north by San Joaquin River, on the west by Middle River and Latham Slough, and on the south by Empire Cut.
Middle College High School (also known as Middle College or by its initials MCHS) is located in Stockton California, on the San Joaquin Delta College campus and is part of the Lodi Unified School District (LUSD). Middle College was founded in the fall of 2000.
Locke is a small town in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, founded in 1915 by Chinese immigrants from Guangdong. It has a unique architectural style of Woodcutter's Gothic vernacular and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the National Historic Landmark District.