El Cerrito, California
El Cerrito City of El Cerrito San Pablo Avenue, with the historic Cerrito Theater Official seal of El Cerrito El Cerrito is positioned in the US El Cerrito - El Cerrito El Cerrito is a town/city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area.
El Cerrito was established by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The top 20 employers in the city, as stated to the 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, include such entities as the West Contra Costa Unified School District, City of El Cerrito, Lucky Stores, Pastime ACE Hardware, and Honda of El Cerrito.
El Cerrito was established by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Rust, its first postmaster. The village's inhabitants did not care for the name and changed it to El Cerrito in 1916. A year later, El Cerrito was incorporated as a village with 1,500 residents. The name means "little hill" or knoll.
El Cerrito is positioned on the easterly shore of San Francisco Bay.
The hilly areas of El Cerrito furnish spectacular views of its famous neighbor and the Golden Gate Bridge.
El Cerrito is positioned along Interstate 80, and close-by Interstate 580.
El Cerrito is bordered by Albany and Kensington to the south, the Richmond annex to the west, East Richmond Heights to the north, and Wildcat Canyon Regional Park to the east.
Local landmark Albany Hill is in Albany, just athwart the border with El Cerrito.
(El Cerrito Spanish, "the little hill" takes its name from Albany Hill.) The Hayward Fault runs through El Cerrito.
In addition, El Cerrito is inside 150 meters (490 feet) of Berkeley to the southeast.
El Cerrito is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) from the University of California Berkeley ground and has two BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stations: El Cerrito del Norte and El Cerrito Plaza.
El Cerrito The city's major transportation transit framework consists of the El Cerrito Plaza and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations, along with a several small-town bus lines directed by AC Transit, providing access to the encircling area and the close-by cities of Albany, Berkeley and Richmond.
In addition to this small-town service, El Cerrito is also served by AC Transit's transbay buses to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, as well as its late evening service from the del Norte station through Richmond, San Pablo, and Pinole, and one of the All Nighter routes, which follows the Richmond-Millbrae BART line.
San Pablo Avenue stretches the length of El Cerrito and is the major commercial and retail corridor of the city.
El Cerrito is home to El Cerrito Plaza, a large automobile-oriented shopping center originally assembled as a county-wide mall in the 1950s, and the Cerrito Theater, a restored two-screen movie theater known for offering beer, wine, and a full dining menu.
El Cerrito town/city parks include both recreation/sports parks as well as undeveloped nature areas.
Most notable are the 80-acre (320,000 m2) Hillside Natural Area open space, Huber Park (Terrace Drive), Cerrito Vista Park (Moeser Lane and Pomona Avenue), and Arlington Park (Arlington Boulevard), Tassajara Park (Tassajara Avenue and Barrett Avenue), Poinsett Park (Poinsett Avenue), and the Canyon Trail Park and Art Center (Gatto Avenue).
The City is home to a 2.6-mile (4.2 km) segment of the Ohlone Greenway (named after the Native American Ohlone citizens ), a trail that runs the length of the City along the BART right-of-way and is prominent with walkers, runners, and bicyclists, as well as the blind, deaf, and mute population.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that El Cerrito had a populace of 23,549.
The 2010 ethnic makeup of El Cerrito was: The populace was spread out with 4,087 citizens (17.4%) under the age of 18, 1,281 citizens (5.4%) aged 18 to 24, 6,918 citizens (29.4%) aged 25 to 44, 7,036 citizens (29.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,227 citizens (17.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the City of El Cerrito's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the year ended June 30, 2013 the top employers in the town/city are: City of El Cerrito El Cerrito Royale Honda of El Cerrito El Cerrito is in the West Contra Costa Unified School District, a multi-city precinct that operates three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school in the city: El Cerrito High School El Cerrito is also home to private elementary and middle schools: There is a branch of the Contra Costa County Library fitness in El Cerrito. Catherine Asaro, science-fiction author, interval up in El Cerrito Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Bucks forward, attended El Cerrito High School; amid his tenure, basketball team went to and lost state basketball final John Fogerty, and Tom Fogerty, musicians from the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, interval up in El Cerrito; Band reunited to play its last concert amid El Cerrito High School reunion at Golden Gate Fields in Albany Karen Grassle, actress, Little House on the Prairie, resident of El Cerrito Robert Culp, film and tv actor; buried in El Cerrito El Cerrito has been mentioned in the book ttfn by Lauren Myracle.
El Cerrito is mentioned in the song "Golden Gate Fields" by Rancid Metallica wrote Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets in a small home in El Cerrito where the band lived for a while.
Cliff Burton joined the band only if Metallica would agree to move to El Cerrito Game Theory's 1988 song "You Drive" mentions El Cerrito in the first line.
Cracker recorded a song titled "El Cerrito" released on their 2014 album Berkeley to Bakersfield.
El Cerrito, CA.
Contra Costa/Alameda County Line Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Mervin Belfils/El Cerrito Historical Society, October 1975/June 2006, retrieved 2007-08-01 Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: El Cerrito, California "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - El Cerrito city".
El Cerrito entry, MLA Data Center, retrieved October 21, 2007 "City of El Cerrito CAFR".
City of El Cerrito.
"El Cerrito Library." Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: El Cerrito, California El Cerrito Library El Cerrito Art Association El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce
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