Walnut Grove is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sacramento County, California, United States.

The town quickly prospered as an agricultural center and riverboat stop (the forests were timbered for steamboat firewood).

It was also a major shipping port by 1865 for agricultural produce and fish, with the Bartlett pear as its primary product.

By 1870, it had become a thriving town full of small businesses (many owned by the Sharp family), a school, post office, and Union Guard Armory.

[citation needed] After Sharp's death in 1880, the heirs sold a large portion of the estate to Agnes Brown and her son Alex.

[citation needed] Ferry service operated for many years between parts of town on either side of the river until the first bridge was opened in 1916.

The bridge, since replaced by a modern span, was the first cantilevered counterweight bascule drawbridge constructed west of the Mississippi River.

][citation needed] As early as 1914, a large Japanese community lived in Walnut Grove, which they called "Kawashimo".

Routine police raids were staged during election times to demonstrate the Sacramento County Sheriff's "fight against crime".

[citation needed] In the early 1930s, Walnut Grove was a thriving community until fire again consumed the Chinese section in the mid-1930s.

The route started from Courtland with stops at Locke, Walnut Grove, and Isleton and returned nightly.

Members from the small Chinese community in Walnut Grove moved to the cities and many elder Filipinos returned to their homeland.

There were two leading areas where beets were unloaded from trucks into a hopper, then conveyed up a belt to fill Southern Pacific railroad cars for the trip north to Sacramento for processing.

[citation needed] In 1961, documentary photographer Pirkle Jones did a photo essay on Walnut Grove.

[citation needed] Walnut Grove's location has made it the site of a rare collection of very tall radio and television transmission towers.

However, these towers and their guy-wires are a significant hazard to aircraft, which can otherwise freely cross most of the Central Valley at 656 feet of altitude.

[citation needed] Delta Meadows State Recreation Area Located along the Railroad Slough Levee, and accessed from the River Road between Walnut Grove and Locke, via a small gravel road just north-east of the Delta Cross Channel, a water diversion facility on the Sacramento River.

Additionally, a docent program through Delta Natural History Association provides canoes with guides in the spring and fall, reserved through Brannan Island State Park.

He was the first Chinese person to construct a building on the Locke brothers' property, where he realized the business potential of the Southern Pacific wharf and warehouse.

After the October 1916 fire which destroyed the Walnut Grove Chinatown, a number of Chung-San District people moved to the area and Locke was officially established.

[20] In Sons of Anarchy, season 4/episode 10, "Hands", Jax Teller and Tara Knowles' family outing at Walnut Grove Park with their sons is cut short, and Tara's plan to attend a surgical conference in Providence, Oregon, at a hospital she plans to transfer to, is foiled when hit men hired by Clay Morrow abduct Tara from the park and severely wound her.