Other nearby communities include Port Costa, Martinez, Vallejo, Benicia, Rodeo, Hercules, Pinole and Richmond.

[6] The town started when Thomas Edwards Sr. bought 1,800 acres (730 ha) of land from Judge Crockett in 1866.

Edwards built his home in 1867 and when other settlers arrived, he started the first general store in Crockett.

[6] The cane was grown in Hawaii and delivered by ship to Crockett, where the C&H refinery turned it into a variety of finished products.

[8] In March and April 1938, Crockett experienced a labor strike at the C&H plant, climaxing in a riot.

In 1984, the company proposed building a natural gas-powered cogeneration plant that would provide steam for the sugar refinery and low-cost electricity for Crockett.

[8] The proposed power plant was eventually built, but only after the company agreed to make major changes.

[8] The Hawaiian sugar farmers sold their holdings in 1993 to Hawaii-based Alexander & Baldwin, which converted C & H from a co-op into a corporation.

Revenues and profits continued their decline into the 21st century, until the Crockett plant processed its last shipment of Hawaiian sugar in 2017.

[10] [b] Raw sugar now arrives from the globe's sun belt: Australia, the Philippines and Nicaragua, among other countries.

There is some suspicion that strong northerly wind then caused embers from the Vallejo fire to jump the strait and ignite brush fires southwest of Crockett, located in Contra Costa County at the opposite end of the Carquinez Bridge.

[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all of it land.

The Carquinez Bridge, part of Interstate 80, links Crockett with the city of Vallejo to the north across the strait.

To the east of Crockett along the south shore of the strait are Port Costa and the city of Martinez.

Farther southwest on I-80 are the cities of Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland; in the opposite direction, northeast, is the capital of California, Sacramento.

[15] The 3,200-square-foot (300 m2) space brings together works from across the artist's five decades plus career featuring examples of Funk art, Nut art, ceramics, and metal sculpture (including robots and space guns), as well as pseudo-scientific curiosities by the artist's alter-ego, Dr. Gladstone.