Alameda (California)

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Alameda
Nickname : The Island City
City Hall (Rathaus)
City Hall (Rathaus)
Seal of Alameda
seal 		Flag of Alameda
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Location Alamedas in Alameda County
Alameda County California Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Alameda Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1853
State : United States
State : California
County : Alameda County
Coordinates : 37 ° 46 ′  N , 122 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′  N , 122 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone : Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents : 73,812 (as of 2010)
Population density : 2,636.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 59.5 km 2  (approx. 23 mi 2 ) of
which 28.0 km 2  (approx. 11 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 10 m
Postcodes : 94501, 94502
Area code : +1 510
FIPS : 06-00562
GNIS ID : 0277468
Website : www.alamedaca.gov
Mayor : Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft

Alameda is a city in Alameda County in the US state of California with 73,812 inhabitants (2010). The urban area covers an area of ​​59.5 km². The city is largely located on Alameda Island on the east bank of San Francisco Bay between Oakland in the northwest and San Leandro in the southeast. It belongs to the metropolitan area of San Francisco Bay Area . Part of the Bay Farm Island and the artificial island of Coast Guard Island , which is public but not accessible, belong to the urban area .

Demographics

The 2010 census found a population of 73,812. The urban population increased by around 1500 within a decade. The 2000 census showed a population of 72,259. Almost half of the population are whites of European descent, making up the relative majority of the population. With a share of 30 percent, Asians are represented above average compared to California or the entire USA. Latinos make up only eleven percent of the population, which is below the California mean. At just over six percent, African Americans are a minority. According to the 2010 census, there were 30,123 households in Alameda. For every 100 women there were 88.5 men, while the median age of the urban population was 40.7 years.

Town twinning

Sister Cities of Alameda Lidingö in Sweden (since 1959); Arita in Japan (since 1958) and Wuxi in the People's Republic of China.

Others

On July 9, 1922, the athlete and later actor Johnny Weissmüller set a new world record in swimming over 100 meters in exactly 58.6 seconds in Alameda.

The Naval Air Station Alameda was located in Almeda until 1997 . The USS Hornet (CV-12) , a former aircraft carrier of the US Navy , can be viewed as a museum ship on the site of the former Naval Air Station Alameda . The ship achieved worldwide fame in 1969 when it took the astronauts of the first Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the crew of the Apollo 12 mission on board a short time later .

Alameda High School
The USS Hornet as a museum ship in Alameda

KREV is a top 40 music station.

The Pacific Pinball Museum traces the history of pinball machines back to 1879.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Alameda (California)  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alamedaca.gov
  2. ↑ United States Census 2010 ( Memento from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (ed.): わ が 外交 の 近況 ("Our current diplomatic situation") . 4th edition. June 1960, 2.2.2 北 米 関係 (“North America Relations”), 日 米 都市 提携 の 現 況 (“Current US-Japanese City Cooperation”) - ( Online - No mention on Arita website regarding Alameda, see following document for the international cultural exchange Aritas .).