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Stockton Today. Stockton is the County seat for San Joaquin County. The City of Stockton is one of California's fastest growing communities. Stockton is currently the 13th largest city in California with a dynamic, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural population of about 300,000.
Smith's reports of the rich trapping here prompted Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, in Oregon country, to send trapping parties south. French Camp, about five miles south of Stockton, is the oldest non-Indian settlement in San Joaquin County. It was seasonally occupied by French-Canadian trappers working for Hudson's Bay Company from about 1829 through 1840, hence its name.