Fremont, California
Fremont, California City of Fremont A view of Mission Peak from Fremont Central Park in 2006.
A view of Mission Peak from Fremont Central Park in 2006.
Official seal of Fremont, California Location of Fremont inside Alameda County, California Location of Fremont inside Alameda County, California Fremont, California is positioned in California Fremont, California - Fremont, California Location of Fremont inside Alameda County, California Named for John Charles Fremont Fremont (/ fri m nt/ free-mont) is a town/city in Alameda County, California, United States.
It was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the consolidation of five lesser communities: Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs.
The town/city is titled after American explorer John Charles Fremont.
Located in the southeast section of the San Francisco Bay Area in the East Bay region primarily, Fremont has a populace of around 230,000. It is the fourth most crowded city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the biggest suburb in the metropolis.
The region consisting of Fremont, Newark (an enclave of Fremont), and Union City (formed from the communities of Alvarado and Decoto), is now known as the Tri-City Area.
Fremont is home to the biggest population of Afghan Americans in the United States. 2.4 Mission San Jose District 2.7 North Fremont District 2.8 South Fremont District 5.1 Fremont Central Park and Lake Elizabeth The recorded history of the Fremont region began on June 6, 1795, when Mission San Jose was established by the Spaniard Father Fermin de Lasuen.
His family was influential in the Fremont region in the late colonial era, and owned and assembled a flour foundry at the mouth of Niles Canyon. In 1846 the town's namesake John C.
Fremont, who led a military expedition to map a trail through Mission Pass for reaching the Pacific coast and take possession of California from Mexico for the United States.
The Fremont region interval quickly at the time of the California Gold Rush.
A town called Mission San Jose interval up around the old mission, with its own postal service from 1850.
In 1868 the 6.8-magnitude Hayward earthquake on the Hayward Fault collapsed buildings throughout the Fremont area, ruining Mission San Jose and its outbuildings.
Until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake caused its destruction, the Fremont area's Palmdale Winery was the biggest in California.
From 1912 to 1915 the Niles section of the Fremont region was the earliest home of California's motion picture industry. (See Essanay Studios.) Charlie Chaplin filmed a several movies in the Fremont area, most prominently The Tramp.
Fremont was incorporated under the leadership of Wally Pond in 1956, when five suburbs in the area, Irvington, Centerville, Mission San Jose, Niles and Warm Springs came together to form a city. Glenmoor Gardens is the biggest subdivision in Fremont, was under assembly in the area, by developers Ralph E.
It was probably the first such organization in the Fremont area; in its scope and structure.
A boom in high-tech employment in the 1980s to the late 1990s, especially in the Warm Springs District, caused rapid evolution in the town/city and linked the town/city with the Silicon Valley.
The Apple factory where the first Mac computer was produced was positioned in Fremont (production ceased in 1993). Other semiconductor and telecommunications firms soon opened in the city, including Cirrus Logic, Asyst Technologies, Mattson Technology, Lam Research, Premisys Communications, and Nextlink California. Approximately 750 high tech companies had offices, command posts or manufacturing facilities in Fremont by 1999. These firms encompassed fifteen of the top one hundred fastest-growing enhance companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and eighteen of the top fifty companies in the East Bay. Tesla Factory (2012) in South Fremont The General Motors automotive assembly plant in South Fremont was the town's biggest employer, and Fremont was known for its drag strip.
Centerville, Niles, Irvington, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs were the initial five small autonomous suburbs that combined and incorporated to form Fremont in 1956.
Today, these places have greatly expanded, are no longer separate communities, and are considered districts or improve plan areas of the more or less advanced city of Fremont.
The town of Newark declined to join Fremont, and is now an enclave of it.
Since incorporation, Fremont has created six more districts, which it calls "community plan areas" for planning purposes.
These include Central, North Fremont, South Fremont, and Bayside.
George Bond set up a general store and the name Centerville was chosen. The postal service opened Centreville postal service in 1855 and changed the spelling to Centerville in 1893. The Centerville Pioneer Cemetery contains the burial places of many of the city's beginning pioneers.
In 1959, the cannery was finished in the biggest fire in Fremont's history. The fire lasted for two days, and effectively put an end to what had been the biggest employer in Centerville at the time.
From Fremont Blvd., west to the Newark town/city border and along Peralta Blvd, from Fremont Blvd.
For town/city planning purposes, Centerville was enlarged to encompass most of the north central residentiary section of Fremont, from Mowry Ave to Decoto Rd, from I-880 to the BART line.
This Centerville improve plan region includes the widespread subdivisions, advanced in the 1950s and 1960s, of Glenmoor Gardens, bounded by Central Avenue, Fremont Boulevard, Mowry Avenue, and the I-880 freeway.
And the Cabrillo Park subdivision bound by, Thornton Ave, Fremont Blvd, Decoto Road and the I-880 freeway.
Also the Brookvale subdivisions, the Quarry Lakes Regional Park, and part of Parkmont. The region is served by two high schools, Washington High School (Fremont, California) established in 1892, which for a long time was the only high school in the region and American High School established in 1972.
It also has two junior high schools, Centerville Junior High School and Thornton Junior High School, which now stands on the old chief site of the Freitas ranch.
The town is physically divided from other parts of Fremont and neighboring Union City by Mission Boulevard (State Route 238) to the east and north, Alameda Creek to the south, Union Pacific Railroad to the west and southeast, and the Quarry Lakes to the southwest.
The hills of Niles are lower than those of the region south of the Alameda Creek in Mission San Jose.
Niles is also home to the Fremont Gurdwara, which serves the large American Sikh improve of Fremont as a theological shrine open to not only the Sikhs but to everyone regardless of their caste and religion.
Part of historic Niles is Mayhew Spring, also known as Mayhew's Sulphur Spring, which was positioned 600 feet (180 m) north of the Niles barns depot. The facility was owned by H.A.
The Irvington District region has cycled through many name shifts over time.
For many years, due to a lack of a formal name, the intersection was known as "Nigger Corners". This corner, today the intersection of Fremont and Washington Boulevards, Union and Bay Streets, is known as "Five Corners" or Irvington Square.
The inn and a several of the other initial buildings were completed by the town/city of Fremont in the early 1980s.
The neighborhood is ethnically different and is primarily working class. For town/city planning purposes, the Irvington region was enlarged to encompass most of the south central residentiary section of Fremont, from Auto Mall Parkway to Mowry Avenue, from I-880 to roughly the BART line (excluding the Central District described below).
The region is served by three high schools: Irvington High School, Robertson High School, and John F.
Mission San Jose precinct lies close to the northern two peaks, Mission Peak and Mount Allison.
Mission Peak is very distinct ive and is one of Fremont's emblems.
These peaks go from 2,517 to 2,604 ft (794 m), taller than Mount Tamalpais, a great height for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Fremont's improve college, Ohlone College, is situated one block away from the mission and serves over 12,000 students.
Mission San Jose has the highest concentration of Asian Americans in Fremont over 50% of the populace as of the 2000 census.
The small-town high school is Mission San Jose High School, it is ranked 67 in the country by U.S.
The median family income for the Mission San Jose region (ZIP code 94539) exceeded $114,595 in 2005.
Owing to an influx of professionals and other well-to-do families seeking access to the top-performing small-town enhance schools, Mission San Jose's median home value reached $831,000 in 2006, earning the improve a project of 237 on Forbes magazine's list of the 500 most well-to-do communities in the United States. In 2001 an attempt by improve organizations in the Mission San Jose precinct to withdraw from the Fremont Unified School District caused state-wide controversy and led to accusations of racism from both sides.
The attempt was prompted by a re-drawing of the school enrollment areas, under which some Mission San Jose inhabitants would send their kids to Horner Junior High and Irvington High schools.
Fremont's enhance schools continue to project among the best in California. The chief facade of the restored 1809 Mission San Jose chapel, on the National Register of Historic Places Nestled at the base of Fremont's rolling hills is the Mission San Jose, one of the earliest of the historic Spanish missions in California, for which this precinct is named.
Warm Springs is positioned on Rancho Agua Caliente and is so titled for the springs that are positioned there. In early times, there was a settlement called Harrisburgh (also, Harrisburg and Peacock's) a short distance east from the small settlement of Warm Springs. A postal service opened in Harrisburgh in 1865 and changed its name to Warm Springs in 1885. The name Harrisburgh memorialized Abram Harris, who settled there in 1858. The name Peacock's memorialized George W.
The Warm Springs precinct is the southernmost portion of Fremont whose core is the Warm Springs and Mission Boulevard intersection.
Warm Springs also serves as commercial center for the mainly residentiary Mission San Jose district, especially since the assembly of Pacific Commons, a large, undivided county-wide shopping center.
The large Asian populace in Mission San Jose comes to Warm Springs for authentic Asian stores such as the 99 Ranch & Marina Food supermarkets, as well as more traditional supermarkets such as Safeway.
Lake Elizabeth of Fremont Central Park The central precinct is surrounded by the Centerville, Niles, Mission San Jose, and Irvington communities.
The central precinct contains retail shopping centers (e.g., the Fremont Hub), the Fremont Bay Area Rapid Transit station, community care centers and Central Park (Lake Elizabeth).
City creators envision a mid-density, pedestrian friendly, transit oriented development, bounded by Mowry Ave, Fremont Blvd, Walnut Ave, and Paseo Padre Pkwy. One of the central streets, the Capital Avenue extension to Fremont Blvd, was instead of in 2016, as the town/city pursues its plans for a Downtown Fremont.
North Fremont is a primarily residentiary precinct surrounded by Union City, Centerville District, Newark, and Coyote Hills Regional Park.
A 99 Ranch Market is one of many Asian businesses in the North Fremont District.
Thornton Junior High School and American High School, which are both physically positioned in the enlarged Centerville District, also serve as the junior high and high school, in the order given, for this community.
South Fremont District South Fremont is a primarily industrialized district, east of Interstate 880 and west of Interstate 680, south of Auto Mall Parkway and north of Brown Rd.
It is sandwiched between the Irvington and Warm Springs improve plan areas. It is noted as the site of the Tesla Factory as well as the site of the Warm Springs / South Fremont BART station.
Baylands is an open space (bay and land) precinct that stretches from the Bay and engulfs the edge of North Fremont, Newark, and Bayside Industrial. It is the site of the command posts and visitor center of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Hill Area is an open territory precinct that forms the easterly edge of Fremont. It is the site of Mission Peak.
Fremont has a Mediterranean climate, typical of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Like close-by San Jose, rain is fairly low (about 17 inches per year) because the town/city lies in the precipitation shadow of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west.
Climate data for Fremont, California As of 2010 more than half the inhabitants of Fremont were of Asian ancestry, with large populations of Chinese, Asian Indians, and Filipinos.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Fremont had a populace of 214,089.
Thanks in large part to a substantial influx of Afghans granted asylum in the United States following the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, Fremont is the home to the biggest concentration of Afghan Americans in the United States. This is noted in Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel Kite Runner.
Among the Asian improve of Fremont, the biggest ethnic groups are Chinese, Indians, and Filipinos.
Fremont and close-by Union City have fairly large numbers of Pacific Islanders, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, Spanish and Portuguese, and a small number of American Indians.
Fremont also has a large Deaf community, in large part because it is home of the Northern California ground of the California School for the Deaf.
The school precinct is called the Fremont Unified School District which also serves parts of Union City and Hayward.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 36.8% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who are 65 years of age or older.
Companies headquartered in Fremont include Antec Inc, Corsair Memory, Ikanos Communications, Lam Research, Fremont Bank, Oplink Communications, SYNNEX, S3 Graphics, Exar, Volterra Semiconductor and DCKAP.
According to the City's June 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Fremont Unified School District 3,000 10 City of Fremont 832 The City of Fremont has been a Tree City USA since 1996.
There are approximately 55,000 trees in town/city parks, streets, and landscaped boulevard areas.
The town/city operates the Olive Hyde Art Gallery, adjoining to Mission San Jose, which has featured Bay Area artists such as Wendy Yoshimura, the California Society of Printmakers and the Etsy collective. The enhance loggia is homed in a former home of Olive Hyde, descendent of early San Francisco Mayor George Hyde. Fremont Central Park and Lake Elizabeth Main article: Fremont Central Park Fremont Central Park is a 450-acre (1.8 km2) park that lies in the Central precinct of the town/city of Fremont, California.
The lake was dedicated in 1969 to Fremont's Sister City, Elizabeth, South Australia.
For other recreation, the northeastern side of the park consists of the large Fremont Park Golf Course.
The command posts and visitor center of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge is positioned in Fremont in the Baylands District, on Marshlands Rd off Thornton Ave.
The summit of Mission Peak with the San Francisco Peninsula in the background, the Sutro Tower directly above the iconic summit marker nicknamed "Mission Peeker" and Mount Tamalpais at the upper right Mission Peak is a enhance park that contains a 2,517-foot (767 m) mountain summit making up the northern third of the Mission Ridge, along with Mount Allison and Monument Peak.
The mountain is symbolically important, as the City of Fremont logo depicts Mission Peak.
An propel mayor heads Fremont town/city government for a four-year term.
The town/city council appoints a town/city manager and town/city attorney.
The town/city manager hires town/city staff, and manages day-to-day business.
The City of Fremont directly provides services related to enhance safety, territory use regulation, transit framework maintenance, parks and recreation, and small-town social services.
According to a 2009 financial report, town/city revenues were $280 million, expenditures $200 million, assets $1,200 million, cash and investments $340 million, and liabilities $260 million. As of 2015, the annual budget was $160 million and the town/city had 800 employees. Special districts furnish water and sewage services for the city: Alameda County Water District and Union Sanitary District.
Washington, the earliest high school in Fremont, on the National Register The Fremont Unified School District has five high schools for grades 9 12: American, Irvington, Kennedy, Mission San Jose and Washington.
The 5,000 seat Tak Fudenna Stadium serves all five high schools as a venue for football, track, soccer and high school graduation ceremonies. These five high schools, along with James Logan High School in Union City and Newark Memorial High School in Newark, make up the Mission Valley Athletic League (M.V.A.L.).
The precinct has a continuation high school (Robertson); two autonomous study programs (Vista and COIL); an adult school; five junior high schools for grades 7 8 (Centerville, Hopkins, Horner, Thornton and Walters); and 29 elementary schools (K-6). The precinct operates the Mission Valley Regional Occupational Program jointly with Newark and New Haven Unified School Districts.
Fremont Christian School and Averroes High School in Fremont are not part of FUSD.
California School for the Deaf, Fremont serves Northern California and shares a ground with the statewide California School for the Blind.
The Ohlone Community College District operates Ohlone College in Fremont, and a lesser campus in Newark.
42 (school) offer no-charge computer programming tuition in Fremont.
The Alameda County Library is headquartered in Fremont. The Fremont Main Library is the biggest branch with the highest circulation of the Alameda County Library, and shares its building with the Alameda County Library Administration.
Grossman Academy Japanese Language School ( Gurosuman Akademi), a Japanese weekend educational program, has its school office in Fremont. The school holds its classes in Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto. See also: Fremont Station and Fremont (BART station) Fremont's BART station once served as the southernmost end for the BART fitness (a 5.4-mile (8.7 km) BART extensions to the Warm Springs precinct have been instead of and are now open as of March 2017 and a southward extension into San Jose is in the planning stages).
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority provides express bus service to various points in Silicon Valley, including downtown San Jose and California's Great America (seasonally) in Santa Clara, thus providing an alternative to the already heavy traffic on I-880 and I-680.
As of October 2008, Fremont was the sister town/city to Elizabeth, South Australia; Puerto Penasco, Mexico; Fukaya, Japan; Horta, Azores, Portugal; Lipa City, Philippines; and Jaipur, India.[needs update] Fremont is presently twinned with the following cities: "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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The Grand Jury is deeply concerned with Fremont's loose interpretation of California government transparency and retention statutes and the city's apparent intentional accomplishments to exclude the enhance from accessing town/city emails ...
The Grand Jury concludes that the town/city of Fremont's interpretation of California statutes cited in this report is contrary to the spirit of open and transparent government and must be changed.
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