Cerritos

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Cerritos
Nickname : The Geographic Center of Southern California, The Freeway City
Cerrito's library
Cerrito's library
Location in California
Cerritos (California)
Cerritos
Cerritos
Basic data
State : United States
State : California
County : Los Angeles County
Coordinates : 33 ° 52 ′  N , 118 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 33 ° 52 ′  N , 118 ° 4 ′  W
Time zone : Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents : 51,488 (as of: 2000)
Population density : 2,308.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 23.0 km 2  (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of
which 22.3 km 2  (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 14 m
Postcodes : 90701, 90703
Area code : +1 562
FIPS : 06-12552
GNIS ID : 0241229
Website : www.ci.cerritos.ca.us
Mayor : Carol K. Chen

Cerritos is a city in Los Angeles County in the US state of California with 53,100 inhabitants (as of 2004).

The urban area has an area of ​​23.0 km². The city has access to Interstate 5 , Interstate 605, and California State Route 91 .

history

The place was officially registered on April 24, 1956 as the "City of Dairy Valley" with 3,439 inhabitants and was at that time purely agricultural, with primarily milk and poultry production being operated (dairy: dairy) . In the 1960s agriculture became increasingly unprofitable and in 1965 it was decided that residential buildings could also be built on plots of less than 5 acres in order to achieve a denser and less agricultural settlement.

On January 10, 1967, the place was renamed Cerritos. The name goes back to the Rancho Los Cerritos estate, which existed nearby before the state of California was founded . Further steps were taken towards a growth of the city accompanied by business and industrial settlements. Half of the urban area was planned as a residential area. In fact, the population grew significantly as a result; after 15,856 inhabitants in 1970 Cerritos had 37,738 inhabitants in 1972.

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of Cerritos. City of Cerritos, accessed June 24, 2009 .