Vallejo, California
| Vallejo, California | |
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| City of Vallejo | |
View of Vallejo from Mare Island
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| Motto: City of Opportunity | |
 Location in Solano County and the state of California |
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 Vallejo, California
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| Coordinates: 38°6′47″N 122°14′9″W / 38.11306°N 122.23583°WCoordinates: 38°6′47″N 122°14′9″W / 38.11306°N 122.23583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Solano |
| Founded | 1851 |
| Incorporated | March 30, 1868 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-Manager |
| • Mayor | Bob Sampayan |
| • City manager | Daniel E. Keen |
| • State senator | Bill Dodd (D) |
| • Assemblymember | Tim Grayson (D) |
| • U. S. rep. | Mike Thompson (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 49.5 sq mi (128.3 km2) |
| • Land | 30.6 sq mi (79.4 km2) |
| • Water | 18.8 sq mi (48.8 km2) 38.0% |
| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |
| • Total | 115,942 |
| • Estimate (2013) | 118,837 |
| • Rank |
1st in Solano County 50th in California |
| • Density | 2,300/sq mi (900/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 94589, 94590, 94591, 94592 |
| Area code | 707 |
| FIPS code | 06-81666 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1661612, 2412142 |
| Website | www |
Vallejo (/vəˈleɪ.oʊ, -hoʊ/ və-LAY-(h)o; Spanish: [baˈʎexo]) is a city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 115,942 at the 2010 census. It is the tenth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest in Solano County. Vallejo sits on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco. The city is named after General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a native Californio, leading proponent of California's statehood, and one of the first members of the California State Senate; the neighboring city of Benicia is named for his wife, Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo.
Vallejo is home to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the now-defunct Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and the regional office for Region 5 of the United States Forest Service. The colleges and universities in Vallejo are California Maritime Academy, the Vallejo Center campus of Solano Community College, and Touro University California. Ferry service runs from a terminal on Mare Island Strait to San Francisco, through the BayLink division of SolTrans.
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