Hayward, California
Hayward, California Official seal of Hayward, California The town/city of Hayward highlighted inside Alameda County The town/city of Hayward highlighted inside Alameda County Hayward, California is positioned in the US Hayward, California - Hayward, California Hayward (/ he w rd/; formerly, Haywards, Haywards Station, and Haywood) is a town/city located in Alameda County, California in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area.
With a 2014 populace of 149,392, Hayward is the sixth biggest city in the Bay Area and the third biggest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most crowded municipality in California.
It is encompassed in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont Metropolitan Travel Destination by the US Census. It is positioned primarily between Castro Valley and Union City, and lies at the easterly end of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.
The town/city was devastated early in its history by the 1868 Hayward earthquake.
From the early 20th century until the beginning of the 1980s, Hayward's economy was dominated by its now defunct food canning and salt manufacturing industries.
8.1 Downtown Hayward Human surroundingion of the greater East Bay, including Hayward, dates from at least 4000 B.C.
The most recent pre-European inhabitants of the Hayward region were the Native American Ohlone citizens . In the 19th century, the territory that is now Hayward became part of Rancho San Lorenzo, a Spanish territory grant to Guillermo Castro in 1841.
The site of his home was on the former El Camino Viejo, or Castro Street (now Mission Boulevard) between C and D Streets, but the structure was severely damaged in the 1868 Hayward earthquake, with the Hayward Fault running directly under its location.
William Dutton Hayward appeared amid the gold rush and "squatted", started building a home, next to the creek at the site of the old Polamares School.
Guillermo Castro's Vaqueros came by one day and told Hayward to get off of Castro's property.
William Hayward assembled a grand hotel on the property.
Hayward was originally known as "Hayward's", then as "Haywood", later as "Haywards", and eventually as "Hayward".
Most historians believe it was titled for William Dutton Hayward, who opened a hotel there in 1852. The U.S.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System states the town/city was titled after Alvinza Hayward, a millionaire from the California Gold Rush. Regardless of which Hayward the region was titled for, the name was changed to "Haywood" when the postal service was first established in 1860. His name survives in the improve of Castro Valley, positioned in the valley next to Hayward, which Castro used to pasture his cattle.
The encircling area came to be called "Hayward's" after the hotel. William Hayward eventually became the road commissioner for Alameda County.
This change occurred in 1880. It remained "Haywards" until 1910 when the "s" was officially dropped.
William Hayward died in 1891.
Hayward interval steadily throughout the late 19th century, with an economy based on agriculture and tourism.
A rail line between Oakland and San Jose, the South Pacific Coast Railroad, was established, but was finished in the 1868 earthquake. the Hayward shore of the Bay was advanced into extensive salt evaporation ponds, and was one of the most productive areas in the world, with Leslie Salt one of the biggest companies. The first San Mateo Hayward Bridge opened in 1929, connecting the town/city to the San Francisco Peninsula. Hayward, 1942 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Japanese American internment refining in Hayward.
Prior to World War II, Hayward had a high concentration of Japanese Americans, who were subject to the Japanese-American internment amid the war.
The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District was formed in 1944.
California State University, Hayward opened in the Hayward Hills in 1957.
The second San Mateo Hayward Bridge opened in 1967.
The City Center Building opened in 1969, and acted as the new town/city hall until 1989, when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the building and forced the town/city government to move out.
The building was closed to the enhance in 1998, with the new Hayward City Hall opening the same year.
BART began operating in the Bay Area in 1972, with stations in downtown Hayward and south Hayward.
The Russell City Energy Center began operating in 2013 at the Hayward shoreline.
Mount Eden was a former town/city that was incorporated into Hayward in the 1950s, at the same time as Schafer Park. Stokes Landing, Hayward Heath, and Eden Landing were communities now inside Hayward town/city limits. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 63.7 square miles (165 km2).
The Hayward Fault Zone runs through much of Hayward, including the downtown area.
The metros/cities bordering on Hayward are San Leandro, Union City, Fremont, and Pleasanton.
The census-designated places bordering on Hayward are Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, Cherryland, Sunol, and Fairview.
Hayward, California - South Hayward BART station and encircling area Hayward has a Mediterranean climate, and contains microclimates, both of which are features of the greater Bay Area.
In 2012, the USDA rated Hayward as a zone 10 - A climate.
Climate data for Hayward, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Hayward had a populace of 144,186. The populace density was 2,261.8 citizens per square mile (873.3/km ).
The census determined ethnic and ethnic makeup of Hayward was 49,309 (34.2%) White, 17,099 (11.9%) African American, 1,396 (1.0%) Native American, 31,666 (22.0%) Asian (10.4% Filipino, 3.9% Chinese, 3.0% Indian, 2.7% Vietnamese, 0.5% Japanese, 0.5% Korean, 0.2% Cambodian, 0.1% Pakistani), 4,535 (3.1%) Pacific Islander, 30,004 (20.8%) from other competitions, and 10,177 (7.1%) from two or more competitions.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 58,730 persons (40.7%), giving Hayward an aggregate Hispanic/Latino plurality populace as categorized by census determined ethnic and ethnic groups.
30.2% of Hayward's populace is Mexican, 2.5% Salvadoran, 1.5% Puerto Rican, 1.2% Nicaraguan, 1.0% Honduran, 0.5% Peruvian, and 0.2% Cuban. Hayward is the second most diverse town/city in the state by Enumeration figures. It has been ranked nationwide as highly diverse , in combination with Oakland and Fremont. Hayward has a council manager government.
Hayward's mayor is Barbara Halliday, propel in June 2014. City Council and other government meetings are cablecast on cable TV channel KHRT-TV.
In July 2012, Hayward began working on an updated 25 year General Plan, with an estimated culmination date of June 2014.
The Hayward Hall of Justice, a branch of the California Superior Court, is the biggest full-service courthouse in Alameda County. See also: List of companies based in Hayward, California This includes some high-tech companies, with Hayward considered part of a northern extension of Silicon Valley. Manufacturing plants in Hayward include Annabelle Candy, Columbus Salame, the Gillig bus company, Impax Laboratories, the Shasta soft drink company, and a Pepsi - Co manufacturing and distribution center. Southland Mall is the biggest shopping center in Hayward.
The economy of Hayward in the first half of the twentieth century was based largely on the Hunt Brothers Cannery.
The cannery was opened in Hayward in 1895 by brothers William and Joseph Hunt, who were fruit packers originally from Sebastopol, California. The Hunts initially packed small-town fruit, including cherries, peaches, and apricots, then added tomatoes, which became the mainstay of their business.
At its height in the 1960s and 1970s, Hunt's directed three canneries in Hayward, at A, B, and C Streets; an adjoining can-making company; a pickling factory; and a glass manufacturing plant.
The air around Hayward was permeated by the smell of tomatoes for three months of each year, amid the canning season.
The locale of the former canneries is marked by a historic water fortress with the Hayward logo. A housing evolution now is situated in much of the former cannery site. Much of the Bay coastal territory of Hayward was turned into salt ponds, with Oliver Salt and Leslie Salt operating there. Much of this territory has in recent years been returned to salt marshes.
Postage stamp. The Mervyns department store chain was headquartered in Hayward, until it declared bankruptcy in 2008.
City of Hayward' Hayward Unified School District indicates employers wholly positioned or headquartered in Hayward Hayward maintains the Hayward Fire Department (with 9 stations) and the Hayward Police Department.
Hayward has its own water and wastewater system, but a small northern portion of the city's water is managed by the East Bay Municipal Utility District. The Hayward Public Library opened at the intersection of C Street and Mission Boulevard in 1951.
Foster City in foreground, Hayward athwart San Francisco Bay, Mount Diablo in background (left) Hayward is served by Interstate 880 (also known as the Nimitz Freeway), State Route 92 (Jackson Street) and State Route 238 (Mission Boulevard/Foothill Boulevard).
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the county-wide rapid transit system, has two stations in Hayward: the Hayward station, in downtown; and the South Hayward station, near the Hayward-Union City border.
BART operates a repair yard in Hayward. The AC Transit bus system, which provides bus service for Alameda County and Contra Costa County, operates in Hayward, and has a repair/training center positioned there.
Amtrak, the nationwide rail passenger system, provides daily service at its Hayward station for the Capitol Corridor train, which runs between San Jose in the South Bay, and Auburn in the Greater Sacramento area.
Hayward has a general aviation airport, the Hayward Executive Airport.
The Hayward Air National Guard station was positioned at the airport in 1942, until being reassigned to Moffett Field in 1980 Rose Hospital, which was at threat of closure as of 2012. A Kaiser Permanente Medical Center closed in 2014, replaced by a San Leandro hospital. Horizon Services, which administers substance abuse recovery programs in Hayward and other locations in the Bay Area, operates out of Hayward, as does the Family Emergency Shelter Coalition.
The Hayward Fire Department opened the Firehouse Clinic in November 2015, the first combined fire station/medical center in California. Four cemeteries are positioned in Hayward: Chapel of the Chimes, Mount Eden, Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery, and Holy Sepulchre, the last two being Catholic cemeteries. The town/city created the Hayward Public Art Program in 2008, to problematic murals to beautify the town/city and combat graffiti, and has commissioned various murals throughout the city. The program won a League of California Cities Helen Putnam Award of Excellence in 2011. Hayward has been a Tree City USA since 1986. Hayward declared itself a nuclear-free zone, a largely symbolic act, in 1987. The town/city is the setting for the Hayward Gay Prom, one of the earliest and longest running gay proms in the United States.
Many of Hayward's cultural landmarks and points of interest are in its downtown area.
Three town/city hall buildings have been built: Hayward City Hall; the City Center Building, an abandoned 11-story building and Hayward's second town/city hall; and the first town/city hall at Alex Giualini Plaza, whose architectural motifs form the current town/city logo.
Other downtown features include the Hayward Area Historical Society exhibition, which relocated and re-opened in June 2014; Buffalo Bill's Brewery, one of the first brewpubs in California; and Cinema Place, Hayward's only movie theatre, with associated murals and an art loggia. Many of the Hayward Public Art Program murals are positioned downtown.
See also: List of buildings and structures in Hayward, California Hayward has two sites in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): the Green Shutter Hotel and Eden Congregational Church.
A third site, Meek Mansion (also in the NRHP), while not inside town/city limits, is managed by HARD and the Hayward Area Historical Society.
Hayward has four parks administered by the East Bay Regional Park District: the Don Castro Regional Recreation Area, Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park, the Hayward Regional Shoreline, and Garin Regional Park.
The Eden Landing Ecological Reserve is positioned at the Hayward shoreline, and includes 600 acres of salt ponds set to be converted to tidal wetlands. Hayward is also home to the earliest Japanese garden in California designed along traditional lines.
The 3.5 acre Japanese Gardens was dedicated in 1980. The garden is administered by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District (HARD), which operates a number of parks and facilities, primarily in Hayward, including Kennedy Park, the Sulphur Creek Nature Center, the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, and Memorial Park with the Hayward Plunge swim center. HARD is the biggest recreation precinct in California. The East Bay FC Stompers amateur soccer team is based in Hayward.
The All Pro Wrestling experienced wrestling promotion and training school is based in Hayward, and performs shows there. Hayward was briefly considered for the new home of the New York Giants baseball team in 1957, with San Francisco acquiring the team. The Hayward Area Recreation and Park District operates the Skywest and Mission Hills golf courses.
In addition to the two enhance golf courses, TPC Stonebrae, a private golf club, operates in Hayward.
California State University, East Bay campus, overlooking Warren Hall (demolished in August 2013) and the Hayward flatlands Hayward is home to the chief campus of California State University, East Bay, formerly known as California State University, Hayward. It is a enhance college inside the California State University system.
Hayward is the home of Chabot College, a improve college in the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. Hayward is served by the Hayward Unified School District (HUSD), which operates three high schools, Mount Eden, Tennyson, and Hayward High.
Additional high schools include the Eden Area Regional Occupational Program, the Leadership Public Schools-Hayward charter school (ranked #2 among charter schools statewide by a University of Southern California study) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation charter enhance high school, Impact Academy of Arts and Technology. The New Haven Unified School District operates in Union City and South Hayward, with one high school, Conley-Caraballo, positioned in Hayward.
The San Lorenzo Unified School District operates Royal Sunset High School inside Hayward. A large private high school, Moreau Catholic High School, is positioned in Hayward.
Hayward was the recipient of a 2010 Promise Neighborhood grant from the United States Department of Education, through CSUEB. Two newspapers of general circulation cover Hayward.
Hayward had, from 1944 to 2016, a daily newspaper, the Daily Review, presented most recently by Bay Area News Group.
The Tri-City Voice newspaper, based in Fremont and presented twice weekly, covers Hayward as well as the Tri-City region of Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
It was established in 2002. The East Bay Express weekly newspaper, established 1978, covers Hayward as part of its East Bay coverage.
Local tv stations, and AM and FM radio from Oakland and San Francisco reach Hayward, as do some stations from San Jose, Sacramento, and Salinas.
California State University, East Bay, formerly California State University, Hayward, has a journal called The Pioneer that has been covering the East Bay since 1961.
Main article: List of citizens from Hayward, California People from Hayward who are firmly associated with the town/city include; founder William Dutton Hayward; and the Ukrainian patriot and Greek Orthodox priest Agapius Honcharenko, who created a farm whose locale is now an historic landmark.
High-profile citizens from Hayward include football coach Bill Walsh, figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi, experienced wrestler and actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Treasurer of the United States Rosa Gumataotao Rios, and Oscar-winning actor Mahershala Ali.
Charles Plummer, before to becoming Alameda County Sheriff, was the Police Chief of Hayward.
Oakland Raiders Head Coach Jack Del Rio, is a graduate of Hayward High School.
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