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The Oakdale economy centers on agriculture, food manufacturing, and tourism. Oakdale was the home to the Oakdale Hershey Plant, a satellite plant of Hershey Chocolate, that closed in January 2008 and moved to Mexico. It opened in May 1965, operated the Hershey's Oakdale Visitor Center and Shop in town, and employed about 575 local people.
Valley Home is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California. [2] It is located about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Oakdale, and named after the warm home feeling for the Central Valley. Valley Home sits at an elevation of 151 feet (46 m). [2] The 2010 United States census reported Valley Home's population was 228.
First National Bank of Oakdale Building: April 6, 2000 338 East F St. ... On the Stanislaus River, north of CA 108/120 and 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Oakdale
The Santa Fe's (now BNSF Railway) Oakdale Branch provided one freight outlet to the AT&SF Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Valley Division at Riverbank, California; the Southern Pacific Oakdale Branch from Stockton was abandoned in 1986 and torn out by 1990. The Sierra Railroad bought the BNSF mainline from Riverbank MP1 to Oakdale in 2008.
Rancho Thompson (also called "Eight Leagues on Stanislaus River") was a 35,533-acre (143.80 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Joaquin County and Stanislaus County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Alpheus Basil Thompson. [1]
Abelardo Hernandez, left, and Al Trujillo trim orange trees at Bothwell Ranch in the San Fernando Valley on Aug. 27, 1998. (Frank Wiese / Los Angeles Times)
By 1874 it was a wagon road which extended to Yosemite Valley. In 1921, the California State Assembly authorized San Joaquin County to transfer the county road connecting Manteca with then-Route 5 (now I-5) at Mossdale to the state. [15] It was numbered Route 66, as was a 1933 extension from Manteca east to Route 13 in Oakdale.
Get the Oakdale, NY local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... America's first high-impact winter storm of the new year is expected to bring over a 1,500-mile swath of hazardous ...