17 Facts About San Joaquin Valley

San Joaquin Valley 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.

The San Joaquin Valley was originally inhabited by the Yokuts and Miwok peoples.

San Joaquin Valley extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the various California coastal ranges in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.

Unlike the Sacramento Valley, the river system for which the San Joaquin Valley is named does not extend very far along the valley.

San Joaquin Valley began to form about 66 million years ago during the early Paleocene era.

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San Joaquin Valley has extremely hot, dry summers and pleasantly mild winters characterized by dense tule fog.

California has long been one of the nation's most important oil-producing states, and the San Joaquin Valley has long since eclipsed the Los Angeles Basin as the state's primary oil production region.

San Joaquin Valley'sll operated a major refinery in Bakersfield; it was sold in 2005 to Flying J, a Salt Lake-based firm that operates truck stops and refineries.

The Valley has a strong literary tradition, heavy in poetry, producing many famous poets such as Sherley Anne Williams, and Gary Soto, current U S Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, and David St John.

Stockton has been an adjunct to the San Joaquin Valley Francisco Bay Area, which was a major military production and transit area during WWII.

Many of those who stayed ended up in Bakersfield and Oildale, as the southern San Joaquin Valley became an important area of oil production after major Southern California oil fields such as Signal Hill began to dry up.

Only the Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles has worse overall air quality, and the San Joaquin Valley led the nation in 2004 in the number of days with quantities of ozone considered unhealthy by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The San Joaquin Valley has been deemed an "extreme non-attainment zone" by the Environmental Protection Agency, meaning residents are exposed to air quality that is confirmed to be hazardous to human health.

Region of the San Joaquin Valley has some of the richest soil that allows for the production of many crops.

San Joaquin Valley suffers from extremely high ozone levels that tend to increase even more on hot days.

Table 2 on page 20 from Pacific Institute's "The Human Costs of Nitrate-contaminated Drinking Water in the San Joaquin Valley" indicates the water systems that were contaminated with nitrates over the legal limit, the percentage of the population affected that are non-white and that are below or near poverty-level, and the year since the violations began.

San Joaquin Valley Fever is one common term for coccidioidomycosis, a fungal infection caused by Coccidioides immitis through the inhalation of airborne dust or dirt.