Escalon
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city in San Joaquin County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- San Joaquin
- Incorporated
- March 12, 1957
- Mayor
- Dave Bellinger
- Senate
- Jerry McNerney ( D )
- Assembly
- Heath Flora (R)
- U s congress
- Josh Harder ( D )
- Total
- 2.34 sq mi (6.07 km )
- Land
- 2.28 sq mi (5.90 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km ) 2.87%
- Elevation
- 118 ft (36 m)
- Density
- 3,280/sq mi (1,266.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (PDT)
- Fips code
- 06-22790
- Website
- www .cityofescalon .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Escalon (Spanish: Escalón, meaning "Step") is a city in San Joaquin County, California, United States. The population was 7,472 at the 2020 census, up from 7,132 at the 2010 census and 5,963 at the 2000 census. Escalon is a Spanish word meaning "stepping stones." Founder John Wheeler Jones is said to have come upon the name in a book in the Stockton Free Library and liked it so much that he gave it to the town.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Escalon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.