Merced County, California
Merced County, is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California.
Image: Merced Theatre
Image: Banks of San Luis Reservoir in July 2021 redux
Image: UC Merced at night
Image: Boeing B 29 Superfortress CAM
The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. Famed as a major breadbasket, the San Joaquin Valley is an important source of food, producing a significant part of California's agricultural output.
San Joaquin Valley
Millerton Lake, supplied by the Madera Canal and Friant-Kern Canal.
César Chávez at a United Farmworkers rally, 1974
Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977