"Merced"
Merced .
City of Merced Downtown Merced Downtown Merced Flag of City of Merced Flag Official seal of City of Merced City of Merced is positioned in the US City of Merced - City of Merced County Merced County Merced /m r s d/ (Spanish for "Mercy") is a town/city in, and the governmental center of county of, Merced County in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California.
As of 2014, the town/city had a populace of 81,743. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter town/city that operates under a council-manager government.
It is titled after the Merced River, which flows nearby.
Merced, known as the "Gateway to Yosemite", is less than two hours by automobile from Yosemite National Park to the east and Monterey Bay, the Pacific Ocean, and a several beaches to the west.
The improve is served by the rail passenger service Amtrak, a primary airline through Merced Regional Airport, and three bus lines.
In 2005, the town/city became home to the tenth University of California campus, University of California, Merced (UC Merced), the first research college assembled in the U.S.
Merced is a home to University of California, Merced.
Current recreational opportunities in the town/city include Applegate Park and zoo, Bear and Black Rascal Creeks and their bike trails, a skate park positioned in Applegate, a live stage theater downtown, two first run movie theaters, The Mainzer Theater which is known for its historic and architectural value, County Courthouse Museum about 1889, the Merced Multicultural Arts Center and the County Library.
Although still growing, Merced has a several shopping areas including the Merced Mall, anchored by Target, Sears, JCPenney and Kohl's, a strip mall positioned on the city's northwest side which includes Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and a several restaurants.
Merced's Main Street contains a several restaurants, a movie theater, and other assorted shops.
Also inside a short distance from the town/city limits are the Castle Air Museum, Lake Yosemite, and Merced Falls.
Merced is also the command posts of Malibu Boats, a manufacturer of inboard boats.
The town/city of Merced along with its encircling cities are serviced by the Merced Sun-Star and the Merced County Times.
The Sun-Star daily journal has a circulation of over 20,000 in the Merced region and the Times weekly journal has a circulation of over 5,000.
Main Street in Merced California During the Great Recession Merced suffered one of the greatest property price collapses in the nation and home prices at the end of 2009 had returned to 1998 levels, as stated to Zillow, making housing affordable compared to many other California locations.
Merced's populace has grown faster than the state average since 1980.
Several primary retail chain stores have entered Merced, adding over 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of new retail space in that time and increasing the City's revenue tax receipts by over $500,000 annually.
In May 1995, Merced was chose as the home of the next University of California campus.
UC Merced opened with its first 1,000 students in September 2005.
The first Merced postal service opened in 1870. Merced incorporated in 1889 and now operates under the Council-Manager form of government.
A plaque marking the site of the Merced Assembly Center.
During World War II, the Merced County fairgrounds was the site of a temporary "assembly center" where Japanese Americans were detained after being removed from their West Coast homes under Executive Order 9066.
4,669 men, women and kids from central California (with most coming from Merced County) were confined in the Merced Assembly Center from May 6 to September 15, 1942, when they were transferred to the more permanent Granada internment camp in Colorado. Greyhound, Intercalifornias, TUFESA and Fronteras del Norte serve Merced.
Merced County Transit, "The Bus", operates both regularly scheduled fixed route bus service and Dial-A-Ride (demand response) transit services throughout Merced County.
Cattracks is UC Merced's bus service, which joins students, staff and faculty at the college to off-campus apartements, the off-campus Castle facilities, small-town amenities, the Amtrak station, and the downtown area.
Officials of the California High-Speed Rail Authority say a flat, straight stretch through the San Joaquin Valley connecting Merced and Bakersfield will likely be the first completed.
The first segment, due by 2015, would stretch from Bakersfield to Merced on an initial run from San Diego to Sacramento.
Merced to San Jose 45 minutes Merced to San Francisco 1 hour and 15 minutes Merced to Los Angeles 1 hour and 40 minutes Merced county countryside Merced is positioned at 37 18 N 120 29 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 23.3 square miles (60 km2).
Merced is approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of San Francisco and 310 miles (500 km) northwest of Los Angeles. Merced has a semi-arid climate. Average January temperatures are a maximum of 55.0 F and a minimum of 36.0 F.
Although snow is mostly rare in Merced, averaging only 0.6-inch (15 mm) annually, the city's adjacency to the Sierra Nevada has resulted in some instances of remarkably heavy snowfall.
Climate data for Merced Regional Airport 1 County of Merced 2,028 2 University of California, Merced 1,602 3 Mercy Medical Center Merced 1,200 4 Merced City School District 1,141 5 Merced Union High School District 949 7 City of Merced 584 The Science and Engineering Building at University of California, Merced The Merced region has access to a several establishments of higher learning.
Within a one-hour radius, close to 100,000 students attend universities and universities, including: University of California, Merced, California State University, Stanislaus, California State University, Fresno and the University of the Pacific.
The University of California, Merced ground opened in late 2005 northeast of the town/city limits.
UC Merced for the 2012 academic year has an enrollment of about 5,760 students.
Merced is served by the Merced Union High School District and three primary enhance high school campuses, Merced High School, Golden Valley High School, and El Capitan High School as well as a several lesser campuses offering alternative education.
Merced has one improve college, Merced College, which has an enrollment of more than 10,000 full-time equivalent students (FTES). In May 2008, the UC Board of Regents endorsed continued planning for a UC Merced School of Medicine.
Mercy Medical Center, Merced California Mercy Medical Center Merced is positioned in Merced.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Merced had a populace of 78,959 .
The ethnic makeup of Merced was 41,177 (52.1%) White, 4,958 (6.3%) African American, 1,153 (1.5%) Native American, 9,342 (11.8%) Asian, 174 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 17,804 (22.5%) from other competitions, and 4,350 (5.5%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 25,091 citizens (31.8%) under the age of 18, 10,475 citizens (13.3%) aged 18 to 24, 20,986 citizens (26.6%) aged 25 to 44, 15,484 citizens (19.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,922 citizens (8.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
Main article: History of the Hmong in Merced, California Escaping post-war persecution from Communist forces, Hmong refugees from Laos moved to the United States in the 1970s and 80s, first settling in Merced and other areas in the Central Valley of California. The Hmong could not initially take part in farming like they had expected, as the territory was owned by other citizens . They could not get high end agricultural jobs because they did not speak sufficient English and Mexican migrants already held low end agricultural jobs.
As such, a great portion of Merced's Hmong collected civil services and Hmong gangs arose, prompting other inhabitants to perceive them as being the cause of economic troubles. As the Hmong settlement matured and the Hmong kids attained English language skills, the town's overall attitude began to be more accepting of the Hmong community. This includes the Merced Lao Family Community Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides civil services to Hmong citizens , the Merced Department of Public Health's MATCH (Multidisciplinary Approach to Cross-Cultural Health) program, intending to draw Hmong patients into the community care system, a body of Hmong-speaking faculty and paraprofessionals (including college classes on Hmong culture and language), and media outlets for the Hmong improve cable tv channel Channel 11 broadcasts programming to the Hmong improve twice per week and airways broadcast KBIF 900 AM airs programming oriented towards Hmong citizens . While Merced has historically had a proportionally large portion of Hmong (in 1997, 12,000 of Merced's 61,000 inhabitants were Hmong), demographic shifts have reduced this.
In 2010, Latinos became a majority populace in Merced and Merced County as the agricultural trade brought in migrant farm laborers.
Merced has large Asian-American (e.g.
In the California State Legislature, Merced is in the 12th Senate District, represented by Republican Anthony Cannella, and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Adam Gray. In the United States House of Representatives, Merced is in California's 16th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jim Costa. Merced has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Tommy Duncan, singer with Bob Wills and Texas Playboys, buried in Merced UC Merced (Bobcats): softball and other athletic programs,. Merced High School and Golden Valley High School sponsor athletics as well. Merced has a history of minor league baseball including the California League Merced Bears (1940s) and Atwater Angels (1970s) in close-by Atwater, California.
There were the defunct Merced Black Bears of the Horizon Air Summer Series and the current Atwater Aviators of the Golden State Collegiate Baseball League. "Merced, CA Code of Ordinances [codes] - Sec.
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Environmental Site Assessment for proposed development, Merced, California, Earth Metrics Inc, October 17, 1989 a b "Merced Regional Airport - Period of Record General Climate Summary".
City of Merced, California Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for the Year ended June 30, 2010 Retrieved 2010-09-24 "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Merced city".
Warner, Miriam E; Mochel, Marilyn (1998), "The Hmong and Health Care in Merced, California" (PDF), Hmong Studies Journal, 2 (2): 30, retrieved November 28, 2010 "Hmong seeking life in Merced, Ca." Merced Sun-Star at Suab Hmong Radio.
(2004), "Hmong Language and Cultural Maintenance in Merced, California", Bilingual Research Journal, 28 (3): 299 318 "Merced's Mercy Medical opens its door to Hmong shamans." "MERCED COLLEGE OFFERING HMONG LANGUAGE COURSE." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Merced, California.
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