City of Pittsburg Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California City of Pittsburg is positioned in the US City of Pittsburg - City of Pittsburg Pittsburg is an industrialized city in Contra Costa County, California.
It is positioned on the southern shore of the Suisun Bay in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stevenson (from New York) bought the Rancho Los Medanos territory grant, and laid out a town he called New York of the Pacific. By 1850, this venture failed. With the discernment of coal in the close-by town of Nortonville, California, the place became a port for coaling, and adopted the name Black Diamond, after the quarrying firm that assembled the Black Diamond Coal Mining Railroad from there to Nortonville. Because of the industrialized potential of the site, a name change to Pittsburg was proposed in 1909. Pittsburg, originally settled in 1839, was called first "New York Landing", then "Black Diamond", before people voted on "Pittsburg" on February 11, 1911.
The name was chose to honor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the two cities' shared a common steel and quarrying industrial heritage. However, from 1891 to July 1911, Pittsburgh, PA was officially known as "Pittsburg", following a country-wide standardization of geographical names by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
Hence, in February 1911, when Pittsburg, CA adopted it name, the 'h' was absent from its namesake city.
Five months later, after an appeals process lasting almost two decades, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania won a rare reversal and the 'h' was restored to the city's official name, which persists to this day, resulting in the spelling difference.
(As of January 1, 2007, state legislation [Assembly Bill 2324] enabled the town/city to manage its own riverfront for commercial evolution and subsequent port operations).
Since the early 1900s, the town/city has grown inland to the south, then spread east and west along State Route 4, now a freeway carrying resident commuters to jobs in the San Francisco Bay-Oakland Region.
The town/city has appreciateed continued residentiary redevelopment expansion near its northern boundary, as well as ongoing assembly of primary subdivisions in the southwest hills, including San Marco Villas. As of the 2000 census, the town/city had a total populace of 56,769. Camp Stoneman, positioned in the area, was a primary staging region for the United States Army amid World War II and the Korean War.
1984 - United States Steel closes its Steel foundry in the town/city laying off over 400. 1987 - On the evening of a town/city council meeting that allowed the funds to restore the former Railroad Depot, the Pittsburg Railroad Depot burned down.
2011 - Pittsburg is recognized as one of the most diverse suburban metros/cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, the state of California and the United States. 2016 - The town/city moves to install surveillance cameras along its portion of California State Route 4, in response to a series of 20 freeway shootings in the region that had taken the lives of six citizens , and injured 11, in the past year The town/city has an extensive history of coal quarrying and industrialized evolution since the late 1800s, with USS-POSCO Industries (a joint venture between US Steel and POSCO of South Korea) and Dow Chemical Company maintaining substantial plants in Pittsburg. Ramar International manufactures Magnolia Dairy Ice Cream, a Philippine specialty brand, in Pittsburg.
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Pittsburg Unified School District 965 5 City of Pittsburg 268 The town/city of Pittsburg is positioned 37 miles northeast from San Francisco, 29 miles northeast from Oakland, California, 60 miles north of San Jose and 65 miles south of Sacramento, California.
Pittsburg shares a border with the unincorporated improve of Bay Point, California to the west, the town/city of Concord, California to the southwest and Antioch, California to the east.
The Suisun Bay is directly north of the town/city and joins the San Francisco Bay to the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Climate data for Pittsburg, California The town/city has one BART station, the Pittsburg/Bay Point Station positioned in Pittsburg near Bay Point.
E - BART will extend rail service further into the town/city via DMU train with a Railroad Avenue station. Tri Delta Transit provides bus service in the area.
California State Route 4 bisects the town/city from west to east.
Pittsburg is home to Los Medanos College, a two-year improve college that is part of the Contra Costa Community College District.
The college's name is derived from that of Rancho Los Medanos, one of the territory grants made by the Mexican Government amid its sovereignty over California from 1821 to 1846; Los Medanos, loosely interpreted from Spanish, means The Sand Dunes.
Pittsburg is served by three School Districts: Pittsburg Unified School District, Mt.
Diablo School District, and Antioch Unified School District.
Pittsburg has two enhance high schools, one a continuation school: Pittsburg High School The enhance Junior high schools in Pittsburg are: High School was another middle school in the Pittsburg area.
The enhance elementary schools in Pittsburg are: Private schools in Pittsburg include: Pittsburg hosts one of the many Contra Costa County Libraries. The bookstore is owned and directed by the non-profit Pittsburg Arts & Community Foundation. An extension of the existing Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) rapid transit system, which includes a Pittsburg BART station at Railroad Avenue. The Pittsburg Diamonds, an autonomous experienced baseball team, began play as a member of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs in 2014.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Pittsburg had a populace of 63,264.
The ethnic makeup of Pittsburg was 23,106 (36.5%) White, 11,187 (17.7%) African American, 517 (0.8%) Native American, 9,891 (15.6%) Asian (9.9% Filipino, 2.0% Indian, 1.2% Chinese, 1.1% Vietnamese, 0.2% Korean, 0.2% Japanese, 1.1% Other), 645 (1.0%) Pacific Islander, 13,270 (21.0%) from other competitions, and 4,648 (7.3%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 62,973 citizens (99.5% of the population) lived in homeholds, 153 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 138 (0.2%) were institutionalized.
There were 19,527 homeholds, out of which 8,837 (45.3%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 9,833 (50.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,583 (18.3%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 1,420 (7.3%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
3,446 homeholds (17.6%) were made up of individuals and 1,067 (5.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The populace was spread out with 17,385 citizens (27.5%) under the age of 18, 6,823 citizens (10.8%) aged 18 to 24, 18,319 citizens (29.0%) aged 25 to 44, 15,298 citizens (24.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,439 citizens (8.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
37,078 citizens (58.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 25,895 citizens (40.9%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census of 2000, there were 56,769 citizens , 17,741 homeholds, and 13,483 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 36.53% White, 25.89% Black or African American, 0.75% Native American, 12.65% Asian, 0.86% Pacific Islander, 16.11% from other competitions, and 7.22% from two or more competitions.
There were 17,741 homeholds out of which 42.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.5% were married couples living together, 17.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 24.0% were non-families.
18.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.8% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $50,557, and the median income for a family was $54,472.
Richard Poe, actor, known for playing Gul Evek on the Star Trek TV series and other part s, graduated from Pittsburg high school. John Henry Johnson, pro football player graduated from Pittsburg High School.
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