Editing Vacaville, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Juan_Manuel_Vaca.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Vacaville is named after Juan Manuel Vaca, who along with Juan Felipe Peña, owned [[Rancho Los Putos]], which included the region from Vacaville to [[Davis, California|Davis]].]]
Prior to European contact, the indigenous [[Patwin]] tribe lived in the area with the Ululato tribelet establishing a chiefdom around the Ululato village in what is now downtown Vacaville along the Ulatis Creek.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ci.vacaville.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument?id=6557  |title=Cultural resources|website=vacaville.ca.us|access-date=July 23, 2023}}</ref>

The early settler pioneers of the land were Juan Manuel Cabeza Vaca and Juan Felipe Peña, who were awarded a {{convert|44,000|acre|ha|adj=on}} Mexican land grant in 1842.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Escalante|first=Eric|date=August 8, 2019|title=Why is it called Vacaville, CA? Here's how the city got its name.|work=KXTV|url=https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/how-the-city-of-vacaville-got-its-name-in-california/103-9576f83c-b040-48a1-a614-7635a8911afd|access-date=April 29, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine | title=A City In Ceramics, Vacaville's Centennial Panels|url=https://issuu.com/vacavillemagazine/docs/pages51-66|access-date=June 22, 2020| via= issuu.com |magazine= Vacaville Magazine|pages=56–58|language=en}}</ref> The same year, Vaca and Peña's families settled in the area of Lagoon Valley.<ref name=":1" /> [[Peña Adobe|Peña's Adobe]] home is the oldest standing building, built in 1842, now at [[Peña Adobe Park]].<ref name=":1" />

Discussions for the sale of a portion of land to [[William McDaniel (politician)|William McDaniel]] began in August 1850.<ref name=":2">{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=R28UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA317 | title= History of Solano County...and histories of its cities, towns...etc.| first= J. P. |last= Munro-Fraser| publisher= Wood, Alley & Co.| year= 1879| page= 317}}</ref> A written agreement was signed on December 13, 1851, forming a township, nine square miles of land were deeded to William McDaniel for $3,000, and the original city plans were laid out from that.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> In the agreement, McDaniel's would name the new town after Juan Manuel Cabeza Vaca.<ref name=":1" />

[[File:Pena Adobe - Vacaville, CA.JPG|thumb|[[Peña Adobe]] (1842), the oldest building in Vacaville, at [[Peña Adobe Park]]]]

In 1880, Leonard Buck created the California Fruit Shipping Association, and the L.W. and F.H. Buck Company, an early company auctioning fruit in the state,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U96P97P22o8C|title=California Fruit Grower (San Francisco, Calif.)|date=1908|publisher=Brainard N. Rowley|page=12|language=en}}</ref> and Vacaville was soon home to many large [[produce]] companies and local farms, which flourished due to the Vaca Valley's rich soil. Because of Vacaville's flourishing agricultural industry, as well as an increasing number of immigrants coming into the United States, Vacaville had a large Japanese and Chinese population. While their professions varied, many of these Japanese and Chinese worked for the fruit companies in Vacaville.<ref>{{cite news |title=VACAVILLE JAPANESE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18950618.2.6 |access-date=November 20, 2023 |publisher=San Francisco Call |date=June 18, 1895}}</ref>

It officially became a city in 1892.<ref name=":1" />

In 1885, the first grade school built was Ulatis School. In 1898, the town's first high school was built, [[Vacaville High School|Vacaville Union High School]].<ref name=":1" />
[[File:Vacaville High School (1912), Vacaville, California.jpg|thumb|[[Vacaville High School]] in 1912]]

In 1968, the [[Vacaville Heritage Council]] was established.

In August 2020, parts of Vacaville were evacuated due to the [[LNU Lightning Complex fires|Hennessey Fire]], which resulted in the burning of over {{convert|315,000|acre|ha|0|abbr=on}} in five counties, including in Vacaville, where farms and homes were destroyed.<ref name="CALFIRE">{{cite web|title=Hennessey Fire Information|url=https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/hennessey-fire/|website=fire.ca.gov|publisher=California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818015057/https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/17/hennessey-fire/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On August 29, 2022, a truck transporting tomatoes crashed on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, injuring four, splattering over 150,000 of the tomatoes onto the eastbound section of the freeway, and significantly delaying eastbound traffic for hours. The peculiarity of the freeway accident subsequently resulted in international news coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62721021.amp |title=Truck spills 150,000 tomatoes causing California crash  |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 22, 2022 |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref>