Editing Discovery Bay, California (section)

==History==
Discovery Bay began as a planned community in 1964, and originally designated as "Riverside" and "River Lake." It was built on land known as the Byron Tract, which was previously used for growing barley and potatoes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Stockton Chamber of Commerce |date=1950-01-01 |title=1000 [one thousand] miles of Navigable Inland Fresh Waterways of the San Joaquin Delta |url=https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/msjsd/22 |journal=Maps of the San Joaquin Sacramento Delta}}</ref> In 1968, Jurgen Lunding led an effort to give the community its current name.<ref>Lemyre, Rick. "The History of Place Names in Contra Costa." ''Brentwood Press''. December 16, 2011.</ref>

In July 2007, Discovery Bay received its own ZIP code: 94505.  Formerly, it had shared 94514 with [[Byron, California|Byron]]. The ensuing celebration included a [[Pedalo|paddle boat]] raft-up that set a world record.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/06/28/discovery-bay-goes-for-another-world-raft-up-record/|title=Discovery Bay goes for another world raft-up record|last=Coetsee|first=Rowena|date=June 28, 2012|website=The Mercury News|language=en-US|access-date=March 13, 2020}}</ref>