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Bridgeport, California The Mono County Court House in Bridgeport The Mono County Court House in Bridgeport Bridgeport, California is positioned in California Bridgeport, California - Bridgeport, California Bridgeport is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the governmental center of county of Mono County, California, United States. It lies at an altitude of 6463 feet (1970 m) in the middle of the Bridgeport Valley. Bridgeport is positioned at the intersection of U.S.
7 Bridgeport in fiction The US Marine Corps' Mountain Warfare Training Center is positioned approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of Bridgeport on State Route 108.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Bridgeport had a populace of 575.
The ethnic makeup of Bridgeport was 484 (84.2%) White, 1 (0.2%) African American, 43 (7.5%) Native American, 1 (0.2%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 25 (4.3%) from other competitions, and 21 (3.7%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 559 citizens (97.2% of the population) lived in homeholds, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 16 (2.8%) were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 119 citizens (20.7%) under the age of 18, 46 citizens (8.0%) aged 18 to 24, 118 citizens (20.5%) aged 25 to 44, 193 citizens (33.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 99 citizens (17.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
341 citizens (59.3% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 218 citizens (37.9%) lived in rental housing units.
Formerly known as Big Meadows, Bridgeport is annually visited by thousands of tourists, many of whom come to the region for its well-known trout streams and lakes.
Bridgeport Reservoir, Twin Lakes, Virginia Lakes, Green Creek, the East Walker River, the West Walker River and various small tributaries and backcountry lakes offer some of the premier Rainbow, Brown and Cutthroat trout fishing to be found anywhere in the world.
The Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Program sponsors fishing tournaments twice per season.
Bridgeport also occasionally plays host to the annual E Clampus Vitus celebration.
Bridgeport has some of the finest backcountry winter recreation in the world.
Bridgeport experiences a humid continental climate (Dsb) and featuring cold, mostly snowy winters and dry summers with very warm days and cold mornings.
Average January temperatures in Bridgeport are a maximum of 41.2 F or 5.1 C and a minimum of 8.6 F or 13.0 C.
Average July temperatures are a maximum of 82.9 F or 28.3 C and a minimum of 40.2 F or 4.6 C.
There are an average of 5.6 days with highs of 90 F (32.2 C) or higher and 13.1 days where the high does not top freezing.
With the high altitude, evenings are extremely cold, with an average of 255.7 mornings with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower and 19.2 mornings with lows under 0 F or 17.8 C.
The record high temperature of 98 F (36.7 C) was on July 28, 1944.
The record low temperature of 36 F ( 37.8 C) occurred on January 31, 1916.
The wettest "rain year" was from July 1968 to June 1969 with 20.76 inches (527.3 mm) and the driest from July 1959 to June 1960 with 4.37 inches (111.0 mm). The most rain in one month was 7.69 inches (195.3 mm) amid January 1969.
The most snow flurry in one year was 174.06 inches or 4.42 metres between July 1915 and June 1916, including 121.0 inches or 3.07 metres in January 1916. The maximum snow cover was 51 inches or 1.30 metres on February 25 1969.
Average high F ( C) 42.5 Average low F ( C) 9.1 Average rain days ( 0.01 in) 5 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 4 41 In the California State Legislature, Bridgeport is in the 8th Senate District, represented by Republican Tom Berryhill, and in the 5th Assembly District, represented by Republican Frank Bigelow. Bridgeport is in California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. Bridgeport is the tribal command posts for the Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony of California. Bridgeport is in the Eastern Sierra Unified School District, which has its chief office in town. An elementary school and a high school (Eastern Sierra Academy) are positioned in Bridgeport. Bridgeport also has a enhance library. Bridgeport in fiction Bridgeport is the setting of the 1947 film Out of the Past; a several sequences were filmed on locale in the town.
Bridgeport plays a small part in the novel The Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac; it is the place from where the chief characters Ray Smith, Japhy Ryder and Henry Morley start their climb to the close-by Matterhorn Peak.
Bridgeport is also mentioned in the 1973 supernatural thriller novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich.
He is called as an expert witness on behalf of a small-town band of Paiute Native Americans at a court hearing in Bridgeport and bungles it.
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