Fairfield is a city located in the northeastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area
in Northern California, USA.
It is approximately 40 miles from both San Francisco and Sacramento,
approximately 30 miles from Oakland, and less than 10 miles from Napa Valley.
Fairfield was founded in 1859 by clippership captain Robert H. Waterman,
and named after his former hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut.
It is the home of Travis Air Force Base and the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory,
and has a population of over 108,000, slightly less than Vallejo,
which is the Bay Area's ninth-largest city.
It shares a border with its sister city, Suisun City.
Other nearby cities include Vacaville, Benicia, Napa and Vallejo.
Fairfield is the county seat of Solano County.
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