Lathrop, CA
The San Joaquin Valley
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Northern California’s premier master-planned community is set against the backdrop of the San Joaquin River Delta.
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Lathrop's River Islands offers homes, schools, parks and trails, a restaurant and pub, and a future business park and downtown retail, now in the planning.
With a location that is roughly equidistant to San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and Sacramento, you can live here and be everywhere.
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The City of Lathrop is located in San Joaquin County, in Northern California, 70 miles east of San Francisco. The 23-square-mile city is at the intersection of the I-5 (one of the major freeways in California and the major north-south freeway along the entire west coast) and SR120 freeways. Lathrop is located in the metro triangle bounded by the Bay Area, Stockton, and Sacramento, and is centrally located within a 30-minute commute of Tracy, Manteca, Stockton, Lodi, Modesto, Livermore, and Pleasanton.
History of Lathrop
It was founded in 1869 by Leland Stanford and was named after his wife, Jane Stanford (née Lathrop). The history of Lathrop, CA, began before the Central Pacific Railroad was built in 1870. The town of Lathrop had a store and a schoolhouse known as Wilson’s Station. The town quickly grew into a thriving community, thanks to the San Joaquin Railroad Bridge construction at Mossdale Crossing.
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Lathrop enjoyed steady growth as more and more people moved to the area for its fertile farmland and productive agricultural industry. However, like many other communities in California, Lathrop suffered from a period of decline in the early 20th century as urbanization and industrialization changed business models and social norms.
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