DAVIS

city, Yolo county, central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento River valley, just west of Sacramento. Primarily an educational centre with some light industry (food processing, steel fabrication), it was named for Jerome C. Davis who in the 1860s owned a stock farm on the site. In 1905 the University of California acquired 778 acres (315 hectares) in the locality for a branch campus and an experimental farm-school (now the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences). Subsequently, schools of veterinary medicine (1948), letters and science (1951), engineering (1962), law (1966), medicine (1968), and management (1981) were established. The Davis campus of the University of California now covers 5,200 acres (2,100 hectares). The California Regional Primate Research Center (for research on nonhuman primates) was founded there in 1962 and D-Q (Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl) University, emphasizing North American and Latin American Indian cultures, in 1971. Inc. city, 1917. Pop. (1994 est.) 48,275.