River Islands at Lathrop

Lathrop is a city located 9 miles (14 km) south of Stockton in San Joaquin County, California, United States. The 2020 United States Census reported that Lathrop's population was 28,701. The city is located in the San Joaquin Valley in Northern California at the intersection of Interstate 5 and California State Route 120.

Lathrop High School, located in Lathrop, California, is a secondary school in the Manteca Unified School District. Its doors opened on August 11, 2008. LHS is known as the "Home of the Spartans".

The Stewart Tract is an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. It is part of San Joaquin County, California, and managed by Reclamation District 2062. Its coordinates are 37°48′13″N 121°20′53″W, and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 13 ft (4.0 m) in 1981.

Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI) was a state prison located in unincorporated San Joaquin County, California, near Tracy. The prison closed on September 30, 2021.

Lathrop/Manteca station is a train station in southern Lathrop, California on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is served by commuter Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains between San Jose and Stockton. The station is located on rail tracks and a rail yard that is on land that was once a turkey farm. It is three miles (4.8 km) from Lathrop and one and a half miles (2.4 km) from Manteca to the east, a location chosen to draw commuters from both cities. Passengers board trains headed west to job centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station was studied to be relocated further south as part of the ACEforward project, but this concept was eliminated from consideration.The station only has limited bus service, timed to trains. The Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority operates the Modesto ACE Express between the station and the Vintage Faire Mall Park & Ride lot and Manteca Transit operates the ACE Shuttle between the station and the city's transit center.

Banta is a small unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California. Originally known as the village of San Joaquin Valley in the 1840s, the town was served by the McCloud Stage Company as the last stop for passengers before heading over the Altamont Pass on the road between Stockton and the Bay Area.The stage stop spawned the Elk Horn Inn, which served thirsty travelers and local farmers. Expanded by owner Ransom Chamberlain in 1853 to include a two-story hotel, restaurant and bar, the inn was renamed “The White House.” In 1863, Henry Banta bought the inn from Chamberlain and changed the sign on the awning to read “Banta’s White House.” Soon, local residents, travelers and teamsters began calling the settlement “Bantas,” and the town began appearing on maps and stagecoach schedules under that name.In 1869, Bantas became a whistle stop for freight and passengers on the newly completed Western Pacific Railroad, which later became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad.Banta was located on the route of the transcontinental railroad from Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay Area by way of the Altamont Pass and Niles Canyon before the Central Pacific bought the route of the California Pacific which ran north of the Carquinez Strait to Vallejo. In the late 1870s, the Central Pacific diverted the California Pacific line to Benicia, California and established a railroad ferry between Benicia and Port Costa across the Carquinez Strait. Meanwhile, the railroad chose to extend a branch line – the San Pablo and Tulare Extension Railroad – from Benicia and Port Costa to Tracy Junction instead of Banta in 1878, a decision which led to the creation of the current city of Tracy and relegated Banta to secondary status as a village at the far eastern edge of the railroad's yards. The San Pablo and Tulare extension was later incorporated into the Southern Pacific. Banta's original Southern Pacific Railroad depot was torn down and moved to Benicia in 1902. It remains standing in Benicia, where it currently serves as a visitor center.Steve Perry, former lead singer of the band Journey, once called Banta his home. His Alien Project rock group formed here in the mid-1970s.Banta's ZIP Code is 95304, and the community is inside area code 209.

Sierra High School is a high school in Manteca, California, opened in August 1994. It is a Microsoft showcase school.

California Chicory Works site is a historical site in Stockton, California in San Joaquin County. California Chicory Works site is a California Historical Landmark No. 935, listed on September 30, 1980. In 1885, C. A. Bachmann and Charles H. W. Brandt formed a partnership and built the largest chicory plant in America by the 1890s. At the California Chicory Works, chicory roots were roasted and grounded on the finest German machinery and mills. The chicory root was often mixed with coffee or used alone for a tea hot drink. At its peak California Chicory Works purchase a cargo ship the Dora to ship its product to the east coast and other ports. The mill was on and powered by the San Joaquin River. The market dropped in about 1911 and the plant closed shortly after.The California Chicory Works was located on 1672 W Bowman Road in French Camp, California, The site is now the River Mill. A California Historical marker is there placed by the by State Department of Parks and Recreation and San Joaquin County Historical Society in 1981. The River MillCalifornia Chicory Works building was sold to its current owner, The River Mill, in 1972. In the 1990s the building had extensive renovations. The The River Mill is now rented as: a Convention center, social center, business meeting spot, special occasions site, wedding site and wedding reception site with 18,000 square feet of space .

Oakwood Lake Amphitheatre was an outdoor amphitheater located at the Manteca Waterslides resort in Manteca, California. Notable past performers include Steppenwolf, Dio, Night Ranger, Mr. Big, Winger, Don Williams and Y&T.

East Union High School (EUHS) is a secondary school located in northwestern Manteca, California. The school first opened in 1964 with a population of 514 students, 26 staff members and four counselors. As of 2005, East Union High School enrolls over 1,600 students annually.

Central Valley Baptist Church is a baptist church located in Manteca, California; centered in between the cities of Stockton and Modesto. Along with the English-language auditorium, the church also houses a Spanish-language ministry, which is sometimes named Iglesia Bautista del Valle Central, other ministries include Filipino-language, Singles, Young Married Couples, Bus/Shuttle, Nursing Home, Youth, and Teen.

Manteca (Spanish for "lard") is a city in San Joaquin County, California. The city had a population of 83,498 as of the 2020 census.