City of Livermore Official logo of City of Livermore Location of Livermore inside Alameda County, California Location of Livermore inside Alameda County, California City of Livermore is positioned in the US City of Livermore - City of Livermore Livermore (formerly Livermores, Livermore Ranch, and Nottingham) is a town/city in Alameda County, California, in the United States.
With an estimated 2014 populace of 86,870, Livermore is the most crowded city in the Tri-Valley.
Livermore is positioned on the easterly edge of California's San Francisco Bay Area.
Livermore was established by William Mendenhall and titled after Robert Livermore, his friend and a small-town rancher who settled in the region in the 1840s.
Livermore is the home of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for which the chemical element livermorium is titled (and thus, placing the city's name in the periodic table). Livermore is also the California site of Sandia National Laboratories, which is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The town/city has redeveloped its downtown precinct and is considered part of the Tri-Valley area, comprising Amador, Livermore and San Ramon valleys.
Typical Livermore region landscape (Morgan Territory Regional Preserve near Livermore) A stagecoach, similar to those used in Livermore in the 1850s, in Livermore, California, February 2010 Before its incorporation in 1796 under the Franciscan Mission San Jose, positioned in what is now the southern part of Fremont, the Livermore region was home to some of the Ohlone (or Costanoan) native citizens .
The about 48,000-acre (19,000 ha) Rancho Las Positas grant, which includes most of Livermore, was made to ranchers Robert Livermore and Jose Noriega in 1839. Most territory grants were given with little or no cost to the recipients.
Robert Livermore (1799-1858) was a British citizen who had jumped from a British merchant sailing ship stopping in Monterey, California, in 1822.
After working for a number of years as a majordomo (ranch foreman), Livermore married on 5 May 1838 the widow Maria Josefa de Jesus Higuera (1815 1879), daughter of Jose Loreto Higuera, grantee of Rancho Los Tularcitos, at the Mission San Jose.
In the early 1840s he moved his family to the Livermore valley to his new rancho as the second non-Indian family to settle in the Livermore valley area, and after building a home he was the first in the region in 1846 to direct the planting of vineyards and orchards of pears and olives.
With his new richness and with goods flooding into newly rich California, in 1849 Livermore bought a two-story "Around the Horn" disassembled home that had been shipped about 18,000 miles (29,000 km) on a sailing ship around Cape Horn from the East Coast.
During the Gold Rush, Livermore's ranch became a prominent "first day" stopping point for prospectors and businessmen leaving San Francisco or San Jose and headed for Sacramento and the Mother Lode gold country.
Robert Livermore died in 1858 and was buried at Mission San Jose before the establishment of the town that bears his name.
The town/city of Livermore, titled in honor of Robert Livermore, was established in 1869 by William Mendenhall, who had first met Livermore while marching through the valley with John C.
California became the 31st state in 1850 when California's non-Indian populace jumped from about 8,000 in 1846 to about 120,000 in 1850 as shown in a corrected 1850 U.S.
The Livermore Ranch postal service, in Robert Livermore's home, directed from 1851 to 1853. The first momentous settlement of Livermore was Laddsville, on what is now Junction Avenue, which interval up around the hotel established by Alphonso Ladd in 1864.
Post office in Livermore opened in 1869. The initial Western Pacific Railroad Company in 1869 assembled its barns connection from Oakland to Sacramento over the close-by Altamont Pass in the east and Niles Canyon on the west with a stop in Livermore on territory donated by William M.
The populace of Livermore in 1869, before the barns arrived, is thought to have been about 75. By 1870 the Western Pacific had been combined by the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
Private undertaking schools were operating in Livermore from the 1860s on.
The Livermore Collegiate Institute was established in 1870, and the Union High School (later called Livermore High) graduated its first class of students in 1896.
In September 1871 Laddsville mostly burned down, and the citizens rebuilt their homes and businesses nearer the barns in what is now downtown Livermore.
Livermore was officially incorporated by the state as a town/city on April 15, 1876, its initial metro-boundary being the line a block north of 1st Street on the north and Livermore Avenue (then Lizzie Street) on the east.
During Livermore's early years, it was well known for large hotels that graced the downtown street corners, before new buildings replaced them.
A telephone line connected Livermore to Arroyo Valley by 1886, and electric lights were introduced by 1889.
By 1890 Livermore had over 20 miles (32 km) of streets. Livermore originally had a Boot Hill called the Old Knoll Cemetery. In 1909, the Livermore Carnegie Library and Park opened after taking favor of a Carnegie library grant.
Navy, formally transferred the former NAS Livermore in its entirety to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for use by the University of California's Radiation Laboratory.
In 1952, the government established Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), titled after famous physicist Ernest O.
Government property just outside the city's jurisdiction limits, but with employment at LLNL at about 6,800 and Sandia/California at about 1,150 they are Livermore's biggest employers.
For pictures of early Livermore, check the Livermore Heritage Guild photo site. The Livermore Valley is positioned about 30 miles (48 km) east of the first coastal range of foot hills that surround the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Livermore Valley has an east-west orientation with mountain passes on the west and east connecting the Bay Area and the Central Valley.
Livermore Valley is about 15 miles (24 km) long (east to west), 10 miles (16 km) wide (north to south), and surrounded by California coastal range mountain peaks and foothills.
Watercourses draining the town/city of Livermore include Arroyo Mocho, Arroyo Valle, Arroyo Seco and Arroyo Las Positas.
Livermore, California looking northeast Usually there is a strong evening wind in the summer that brings cool air off the Pacific Ocean into the Livermore valley as it heads towards the much hotter Central Valley.
The reconstructionfrom June to September is extremely dry and is characterized by clear skies, but in late summer, subtropical moisture occasionally surges into the Livermore Valley, bringing high humidity, monsoon clouds, and, much less commonly, thunderstorms.
Climate data for Livermore, California (1903-2013) Average rainy days ( .1 in) 6 6 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 34 Livermore City Budget Livermore is run by a Council manager government with a four-member City Council propel for four years plus a two-year propel mayor and a "professional" City Manager.
The City Attorney, John Pomidor, is hired by the town/city council and generally handles all legal matters for the city, from traffic tickets to civil lawsuits to acting as a general counsel, giving legal advice for town/city departments.
Unions and bargaining units representing the 451 Livermore City Employees The Livermore Police Department, or the LPD, was established in 1876, at that time the only law enforcement agency in the San Francisco Bay Area besides the San Francisco Police Department.
The Livermore Police Department has 135 members including 83 sworn officers and 45 nonsworn full-time personnel who operate on a $25 million budget each year.
In July 2008, the LPD opened its first substation in New Downtown Livermore, known as the Central Station or Downtown Office.
The Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department provides fire and advanced life support services to the metros/cities of Livermore and Pleasanton.
It serves an estimated populace of 150,000 (78,000 in Livermore, and 71,000 in Pleasanton) over 44 square miles (114 km2) (23 square miles (60 km2) in Livermore, and 21 square miles (54 km2) in Pleasanton) with an operating budget of $28,000,000.
The enhance schools in Livermore are part of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District (LVJUSD) with command posts at 685 East Jack London Blvd.
Livermore High School, established in 1891 as California's first union high school Granada High School, Livermore's second high school Livermore Adult School 1401 Almond Ave Livermore, Ca There are two charter schools in Livermore, one K-8 and one high school, both directed by the Tri-Valley Learning Corporation, a small-town 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization formed by the parents and teachers who established the two charter schools.
Livermore Valley Charter School (LVCS): a K-8 enhance school Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory (LVCP): Livermore's newest high school, opened in fall of 2010 The Livermore Area Recreation and Park District (LARPD) is a special autonomous, non-profit (501(c) organization) park precinct that was created by the vote of the enhance in 1947 and runs the parks and other facilities in the town/city of Livermore and most of the unincorporated areas of easterly Alameda County.
LARPD operates 42 facilities, including neighborhood, special use, improve and county-wide parks and sport fields, a family campground at South Lake Tahoe, the Ravenswood Historic Site, The Barn, the Veterans Building, the Carnegie Building, the Bothwell Recreation Center and the new Robert Livermore Community Center.
Brushy Peak Regional Preserve, positioned near Livermore, is jointly directed by the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District and the East Bay Regional Park District.
Shadow Cliffs Park along Stanley Boulevard west of Livermore is a prominent 266-acre (108 ha) park that includes a 80-acre (32 ha) lake in an old Kaiser Industries gravel pit and is used extensively today for swimming, boating, and fishing. Del Valle Regional Park, 10 miles (16 km) south of Livermore, includes a 5-mile-long (8.0 km) lake with all kinds of water-oriented recreation.
On the second and last Wednesday of each month inside the Cresta Blanca Ballroom at the Robert Livermore Community Center, 4444 East Avenue.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Livermore had a populace of 80,968.
According to the latest census information, Livermore is the third wealthiest midsize (between 65,000 and 249,999 citizens ) town/city in the nation.
In 2005, the median homehold income in Livermore was $96,632, which ranked it the third highest-income midsize city, behind only the California metros/cities of Newport Beach ($97,428) and Livermore's neighbor, Pleasanton ($101,022). Livermore has 48,709 registered voters with 33.4% Republicans, 39.6% Democrats, and 18.5% Decline to State voters.
In the California State Legislature, Livermore is in the 7th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steve Glazer, and in the 16th Assembly District, represented by Republican Catharine Baker. In the United States House of Representatives, Livermore is in California's 15th congressional district, represented by Democrat Eric Swalwell. Livermore's Farmer's Market at Carnegie Park downtown Livermore's culture retains some vestiges of the farming, wine burgeoning and ranching traditions that have existed in the valley since the time of Robert Livermore, but now largely reflects a suburban population.
Since 1918, Livermore has each June hosted the Livermore Rodeo, called the "World's Fastest Rodeo", that claims it has more riders per hour than any other event of its type.
There are a several wine-tasting tours of the many Livermore region wineries that occur periodically throughout the summer.
Livermore has a strong blue-collar element, as well as many professionals who work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other work sites in the high tech industries inside the Bay Area.
Renovations encompassed office buildings, the Livermore Cinemas, the Bankhead Theatre, and a multistory parking structure.
The Livermore Civic Center includes a state-of-the-art library that opened in 2004, with a front mosaic by Maria Alquilar.
Livermore has a several golf courses positioned near the city: Las Positas municipal golf course, and the 18 hole Poppy Ridge and Wente Vineyards courses. Springtown Golf Course closed October 15, 2015.
Livermore Municipal Airport (LVK) is accessible to company jets, serving the entire Tri-Valley area.
In 2010, proposed projects encompassed extension of the BART high-speed rail fitness to Livermore, with an underground downtown station, and a county-wide performing arts center between Livermore Avenue and L Street. Arts organizations supported by the town/city include the Livermore-Amador Symphony, Del Valle Fine Arts, producer of classical music affairs, and in the valley at large, the Valley Concert Chorale, Livermore Valley Opera, the Valley Dance Theatre, a classical ballet business and the Livermore Art Association.
One of the biggest districts in Livermore is Springtown, the northeast region of the town/city north of Interstate 580.
The North Livermore precinct is north of the Union Pacific Railroad that cuts through downtown.
The South Livermore district, including areas of unincorporated land, has over 40 wineries.
Aerial view of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The Livermore region is the home of two DOE National Laboratories.
Main article: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The biggest employer in Livermore is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a federally funded research and evolution center funded by the Department of Energy which is directed by a limited liability consortium titled Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), a joint venture business of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWX Technologies, URS, and Battelle.
Livermore is also the California site of Sandia National Laboratories, which is directed by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed-Martin owned Company.
Main article: Livermore Valley AVA One of California's earliest wine regions, the Livermore Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA) played a pivotal part in shaping California's wine industry.
5 Livermore Area Recreation Park District (LARPD) 450 (60 full-time) Livermore's biggest employers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with about 6,800 employees and Sandia National Laboratory with 1,150 employees, are U.S.
I-580 passes the outskirts of Livermore before it heads east through the Altamont Pass to the Central Valley and Interstate 5.
Vasco Road, an unnumbered highway that is maintained by Alameda and Contra Costa counties, joins Livermore to Brentwood and the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta area.
Livermore Municipal Airport (LVK) is positioned 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Livermore and is a division of the Public Works Department; it is owned and directed by the City of Livermore.
Approximately 600 airplane are based on Livermore Airport, which has over 150,000 annual airplane landings and take-offs each year.
The WHEELS bus fitness operates in Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, and the encircling unincorporated areas of Alameda County.
Livermore has two stations for the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE), a commuter train which runs from Stockton to the San Jose area.
There is a petition drive to bring the Bay Area Rapid Transit fitness to Livermore.
Radio station KKIQ is licensed in Livermore and broadcasts in the Tri-Valley area.
Livermore has five landmarks listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Bank of Italy Building, the Hagemann Ranch Historic District, the D.
Murphy House, the Livermore Carnegie Library and Park and Ravenswood Historic Site.
Livermore Carnegie Library and Park Harold Brown, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Secretary of Defense Randy Johnson, (Livermore High 1982), Major League Baseball pitcher for Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, and San Francisco Giants, 1988-2009 Robert Livermore, town namesake (died before the town/city was titled and incorporated) Miller, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bryan Shaw, (Livermore High 2005), Major League Baseball pitcher for Arizona Diamondbacks 2011-2012, and Cleveland Indians 2013-present Edward Teller, Physicist, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Herb York, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore has three sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: City of Livermore.
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There is conflicting knowledge as to the size of Livermore and Noreiga's grant.
The 1884 California surveyors report lists 8,880 acres (3,594 ha) as being allowed--this is probably what the Livermore family ended up with of their initial grant when it was finally patented 1872.
Robert Livermore Picture accessed 28 Mar 2013 Livermore Heritage Guild site accessed 28 Mar 2013 Livermore Naval Air Station website.
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