Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Linden, CA

Linden is an unincorporated census-designated place in San Joaquin County, strung along California Highway 26 about 13 miles east-northeast of Stockton, amid orchards at just 92 feet elevation.

Linden began in the Gold Rush era as the Fifteen-Mile House, a travelers' stop opened by brothers William and John Trebilcock and named for its distance by road from Stockton.

The stop later became known as Foreman's ranch, and the townsite was laid out in August 1862, when J. Wasley gave the place its present name, Linden.

Linden is cherry country: orchards surround the community, local farms open their trees to pickers in spring, and the town hosts the Linden Cherry Festival each spring.

Linden's population jumped 61.7% in a single decade, from 1,103 in 2000 to 1,784 in 2010, and reached 1,863 at the 2020 census.

Linden had 656 households at the 2020 census, averaging 2.84 people each, with 78.5% of homes owner-occupied - and the Census Bureau classifies 100% of the community as rural.

For a farm town, Linden is well off: the Census Bureau estimated its median household income at $123,378 in 2023, with only about 3.2% of residents below the poverty line.

Baseball superstar Aaron Judge - three-time American League MVP and the American League's single-season home run king - hails from Linden.

The 1974 car-chase film Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was filmed in and around Linden, and Stockton band Pavement name-checked the town in its 1992 song 'Feed 'Em to the (Linden) Lions'.

Ervin Zador, the Hungarian water polo star of the infamous 1956 Olympic 'Blood in the Water' match, spent the last years of his life in Linden.