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Solano County covers 828.8 square mile
area, a majority of the county lies in the fertile Sacramento
Valley.
There are over
400,000 residents in Solano. About 20,000 of Solano’s residents live in the
unincorporated areas of the county with the remainder residing
within the seven incorporated cities.
There are seven
Solano County cities:
Benicia ,
Dixon
, Fairfield ,
Rio Vista ,
Suisun City,
Vacaville, and
Vallejo. |
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Solano County’s
economic base is farming and light industry. The principle
sources of income are agriculture, food processing, national
defense expenditures, wholesale and retail trades, and the
natural gas industry of its eastern sector. The North County is
defined as the area north of the city of Vacaville, generally
centered on the valley, with most of the unincorporated areas
lying on the eastern boundary of the county. The county
landscape is defined by mountain ranges to the west, with
valleys and farm land to the east, forming principal drainage
basins aligned on a predominately north to south axis. The area
of the south county is comprised of the Suisun Bay, (with small
islands and sloughs on the southern most part of the county),
the Sacramento River and Deep Water Channel running southwest,
and the Suisun Marsh, the largest contiguous marsh in the United
States for the preservation and enhancement of wildlife.
With major lines of transcontinental
communications bisecting its territory, Solano serves as a
conduit county. Interstate Route 80, interconnecting with
heavily traveled feeder routes 680, 505, and State Routes 12 and
113 traverse its territory. Generally on the same north-south
line, the Southern Pacific Railroad and high capacity pipelines
move massive amounts of freight through the county.
To the south and the east, a major waterway, the San
Joaquin-Sacramento Ship Channel, carries traffic through the
Carquinez Strait to major inland ports. It is estimated that
ninety percent of the county’s population lives within a
comfortable walking distance of one or more of these
transportation arteries.
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