The original town site fronts on the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta, reflecting its origins as a deep water channel river port (As of January 1, 2007, state legislation [Assembly Bill 2324] enabled the city to manage its own riverfront for commercial development and subsequent port operations). Since the early 1900s, the city has grown inland to the south, then spread east and west along State Route 4, now a freeway carrying resident commuters to jobs in the San Francisco Bay-Oakland Region. In the process, the former town of Cornwall, California was absorbed. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,769.
the original town site fronts on the sacramento/san joaquin river delta reflecting its origins as a deep water channel river port (as of january 1 2007 state legislation [assembly bill 2324] enabled the city to manage its own riverfront for commercial development and subsequent port operations) since the early 1900s the city has grown inland to the south then spread east and west along state route 4 now a freeway carrying resident commuters to jobs in the san francisco bay-oakland region in the process the former town of cornwall california was absorbed as of the 2000 census the city had a total population of 56769