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In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state ...
In 1874, California State Senator Charles Maclay (for whom Maclay Street in San Fernando is named) acquired 56,000 acres (230 km 2) of land across the San Fernando Valley. The area extended from Sunland Blvd. all the way west to the Chatsworth Hills. East of Sunland was Rancho San Rafael, a large land grant to José María Verdugo by the ...
County FIPS code [8] County seat [9] Est. [9] Formed from Etymology [10] General Law or Charter [6] Population (2023) [11] Area [9] Map Alameda County: 001: Oakland: 1853: Contra Costa and Santa Clara: The oak and other trees, once abundant in the region; alameda is Spanish for "avenue shaded by trees" or "cottonwood grove". Charter 1,622,188: ...
The fort, which had a bastion, or block house, in its southwest corner, was located less than a mile from the town of Janesville. The site of the fort is now a California Historic Landmark No.758. [5] [6] In 1864, Janesville lost to Susanville by one vote from becoming the county seat. The Janesville post office opened in 1861, closed for a ...
Clear Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) [3] in Lassen County, California. [2] It is located 2.5 miles (4 km) west-southwest of Westwood , [ 4 ] at an elevation of 4970 feet (1515 m). [ 2 ] Its population is 175 as of the 2020 census, up from 169 from the 2010 census.
The fentanyl death rate in the 95354 ZIP code has been 2 1/2 times higher than the countywide rate. That ZIP code includes Modesto’s airport neighborhood, one of the poorest areas of the county.
Lindsay is a city in Tulare County, California, United States.The population was 12,659 at the 2020 census.Lindsay is located southeast of Visalia and north of Porterville and is considered part of the Visalia-Porterville Metropolitan Area and the Porterville Urban Area by the United States Census Bureau.
Silveyville Masons Lodge 201 built in 1884 in Dixon, California. The first semi-permanent European settlement to develop in the Dixon area emerged during the California Gold Rush of the mid-19th century when the community of Silveyville was founded in 1852 by Elijah Silvey [12] as a halfway point between the Pacific coast and the rich gold fields of Sacramento along a route commonly traveled ...