Rancho Cordova, California City of Rancho Cordova Official seal of City of Rancho Cordova City of Rancho Cordova is positioned in the US City of Rancho Cordova - City of Rancho Cordova Rancho Cordova is a town/city in Sacramento County, California, United States which incorporated in 2003.
Rancho Cordova is the Sacramento area's biggest employment sub-center, attracting over 50,000 commuters.
The town/city is served by Sacramento Regional Transit's various bus lines and the Gold Line light rail line, though severaler than 0.1 percent of commuters to Rancho Cordova use the line as stated to the US Enumeration Bureau's American Community Survey (2010-2012).
In 2010 Rancho Cordova was titled as a winner of the All-America City Award.
1855) amid the Gold Rush era, the region was retitled Mayhew Station and Mills Station (c.
1900), in the order given. The town/city itself was titled after the Cordova Vineyard, which was positioned in the center of the Rancho Rio de los Americanos territory grant.
Original names of the town encompassed Cordova Vineyards and Cordova Village, before it was officially titled Rancho Cordova when a postal service was established in the improve in 1955. In the Gold Rush era of mid 19th century California, certain Placer quarrying activities took place in the Rancho Cordova environs, some traces of which disturbance are extant.
Partially confined groundwater generally flows to the southwest. For many years, Rancho Cordova was the Community called Mills, positioned in the easterly part of the Brighton Township..
At the top of Bradshaw, along the American River, close to the oak tree that marked the northwest boundary of the Spanish Land Grant, Rancho Rio De Los Americanos, there are still some remains of foundations.
The 35,500 acre Rancho Rio De Los Americanos was granted to William Leidesdorff in 1844, but he died in 1848, leaving the Rancho and some properties in San Francisco to his heirs.
Capt Joseph Folsom purchased the Rancho from the heirs and established a town in 1855 which he titled after himself - Folsom.
As the miners left Sacramento traveling to the foothills in search of gold, way stations interval up along the first dirt trails, and later more formal roads, that took travelers east.
Many of the stations ultimately also became the US Post Office for their area, and many of these early pioneer served as postmaster or postmistress.
Travelers and miners apparently headed out L Street from Sacramento, the approximate alignment of present-day Folsom Blvd., along a plank, or macadam, road that ended at present day Bradshaw Road.
The locale is today marked by the old Brighton Station building, visible on the south side of Folsom Boulevard where the overpasses for Highway 50 and the light rail are located.
The old Perkins building, where the Jackson Highway leaves Folsom Boulevard, and Manlove were both locations for way stations.
Mayhew left Mayhew Station to take over as Post - Mistress at Routier Station when the postal service opened in 1887.
15 Mile House was assembled in 1850, and is memorialized with a brick cairn on White Rock Road in front of the Cal - Trans Emergency Ops building.
There were also way stations along the Coloma Road, such as the 14 Mile House, assembled on the Coloma Road in 1850 by Mr.
The building also homed the Post Office, and two of his children, William Henry and Helen, both ran the Post Office at various times.
The building that previously sat athwart the street, housing the Sharp Shop, was a fire home, along with another small building on the east side of Routiers Road between Folsom Blvd.
In 1972, after negotiations between the Fire District, Sacramento County, Raley's, and the Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, the building was moved to back north of the Boulevard about 200 feet.
In its final life, Mills Station has been restored as a improve center at the Mather Field/Mills Light Rail Station approximately 1000 feet from its initial location.
The agricultural tradition of Rancho Cordova fell onto difficult times in the 1930s and '40s.
Along with Joseph Routier's nationally recognized produce, wine from Roland Federspiel's Cordova Vineyards had been served at the Teddy Roosevelt White House table.
Duplexes on the opposite corners originally homed the revenue office and postal service, then the first office of The Grapevine newspaper.
Federspiel had chosen the name Cordova Vineyards with a nod to the Cordoba Region in Spain, and wanted to preserve the Cordova name.
The US Postal Service agreed to let them use the name Rancho Cordova as it was just the right size to fit around the circle of the old postal franking stamp.
Johnson's Cordova Inn.
There were only a little over 1000 homes in the Mather housing area, so most citizens lived off base.
Along with other citizens who found the new Rancho Cordova a desirable place to live were the many citizens who came to open businesses and establish all of the organizations that any true improve needs in order to thrive and prosper.
These improve builders were also the principals at the junior and senior high schools, the manager at the Chamber of Commerce, the general manager at the Park District, the chief at the Fire District, pastors and priests.
They invented a new organization called the Cordova Community Council as a means for all of these civic establishments to come together to share knowledge and work on improve projects.
One of the first accomplishments literally resulted in putting Rancho Cordova on the map! It bothered everyone that Rancho Cordova did not appear on the Rand Mc - Nally's, and they wrote letters persistently until the mapping business gave up and put Rancho Cordova on the map.
There were attempts to incorporate Rancho Cordova in 1961 and in 1978.
Rancho Cordova is positioned at 38 35 6 N 121 17 50 W (38.585083, -121.297269). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 33.9 square miles (88 km2), of which, 33.5 square miles (87 km2) of it is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it (1.08%) is water.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Rancho Cordova had a populace of 64,776.
The ethnic makeup of Rancho Cordova was 39,123 (60.4%) White, 8,561 (13.1%) African American, 668 (1.0%) Native American, 7,831 (12.1%) Asian (3.6% Filipino, 2.0% Indian, 1.6% Vietnamese, 1.4% Chinese, 1.0% Korean, 0.4% Japanese, 2.0% Other), 556 (0.9%) Pacific Islander, 5,517 (8.5%) from other competitions, and 4,520 (7.0%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 64,451 citizens (99.5% of the population) lived in homeholds, 170 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 155 (0.2%) were institutionalized.
There were 23,448 homeholds, out of which 8,722 (37.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 10,521 (44.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,815 (16.3%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 1,431 (6.1%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 17,011 citizens (26.3%) under the age of 18, 6,441 citizens (9.9%) aged 18 to 24, 19,508 citizens (30.1%) aged 25 to 44, 15,182 citizens (23.4%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,634 citizens (10.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
34,907 citizens (53.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 29,544 citizens (45.6%) lived in rental housing units.
Following the adoption of the 1978 Cordova Community Plan, the Sacramento County Local Agency Formation Commission adopted a Sphere of Influence for Rancho Cordova.
1980 Rancho Cordova Sphere of Influence Map See also: Government of Sacramento County, California The City of Rancho Cordova has a council-manager form of government with five members propel to the council, one of whom serves as mayor each year.
As of 2016, Rancho Cordova's mayor is Donald Terry, and Linda Budge is vice mayor.
The City of Rancho Cordova has maintained nine straight years of balanced budgets.[when?] Its sound financial status has been recognized by the rating agency Standard and Poor. In July 2012 Standard and Poor's (S&P) Rating Services reaffirmed the City of Rancho Cordova's A+ long-term rating, noting the City's outlook is stable and its financial performance has been good.
According to S&P, Rancho Cordova's rating reflects the city's "very strong richness indicator, its good financial performance dominant to a very strong fund balance, good financial management practices and policies, and its access to Eastern Sacramento urbane area." "In our opinion, Rancho Cordova's financial performance has been good with the City historically reporting consecutive surpluses," said S&P's analysis report.
Rancho Cordova is represented by Don Nottoli on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.
In the California State Senate, Rancho Cordova is split between the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Jim Nielsen, and the 8th Senate District, represented by Republican Tom Berryhill. In the California State Assembly, it is in the 8th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Ken Cooley. In the United States House of Representatives, Rancho Cordova is in California's 7th congressional district, represented by Democrat Ami Bera. Rancho Cordova has its own law enforcement.
Rancho Cordova students are served by four school districts, with the majority of schools in the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District and has three high schools: Cordova High School, Walnutwood High School, and Kinney High School.
Two elementary schools and one high school in the Sacramento Unified School District serve students in the portion of Rancho Cordova, and students in the recently advanced Anatolia region are served by Elk Grove Unified School District.
Data on the educational status of Rancho Cordovans shows that approximately 85% of inhabitants 25 years or older have a high school education and 22% of inhabitants hold some type of college or post-secondary school degree.
In Sacramento County, 85% of inhabitants 25 years or older have a high school education and 28% of inhabitants hold some type of college or post-secondary school degree.
In California, 80% of inhabitants 25 years or older have a high school education and 30% of inhabitants hold some type of college or post-secondary school degree.
According to Rancho Cordova's 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: Sacramento California Temple (Located in Rancho Cordova) Historic Sheepherder Bar & Grille Oldest Building in Rancho Cordova - Established 1913 11275 Folsom Blvd Sheepherderbg This is a list of notable citizens from Rancho Cordova.
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