Fairfield is a city located in the northeastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States (See East Bay, California and North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)). It is approximately from both San Francisco, California and Sacramento, California, approximately from Oakland, California, and less than from Napa Valley AVA. 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 almost 107,000; slightly less than Vallejo, California,...

Fairfield is a city located in the northeastern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States (See East Bay, California and North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)). It is approximately from both San Francisco, California and Sacramento, California, approximately from Oakland, California, and less than from Napa Valley AVA. 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 almost 107,000; slightly less than Vallejo, California, which is the Bay Area's ninth-largest city. It shares a border with its sister city, Suisun City, California.
Other nearby cities include
Vacaville, California, Benicia, California, Napa, California and Vallejo, California. Fairfield is the county seat of Solano County, California.