Pacific Grove

Pacific Grove
The Point Pinos Lighthouse
Location in California
Pacific Grove
Basic data
Foundation :	1875
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Monterey County
Coordinates :	36 ° 37 ′  N , 121 ° 55 ′  W Coordinates: 36 ° 37 ′  N , 121 ° 55 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	15,522 (as of: 2000)
Population density :	2,097.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	10.3 km 2  (approx. 4 mi 2 ) of which 7.4 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	47 m
Postal code :	93950
Area code :	+1 831
FIPS :	06-54848
GNIS ID :	1652821
Website :	www.ci.pg.ca.us
Mayor :	Daniel E. Cort

Pacific Grove is a city in Monterey County in the US state of California , United States , with 15,400 inhabitants (as of 2004 ). The urban area covers a size of 10.4 km². The Asilomar Conference Center , a former YWCA summer camp , located directly in the Pacific dunes, is particularly well-known . The Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA , organized by Paul Berg , took place there in 1975 . Pacific Grove was founded in 1889.

Demographics

The population density was 1.451 / km ² according to the 2010 census . 12710 people (84.5%) were white, 199 (1.3%) were black, 78 (0.5%) were Indians, 872 (5.8%) were Asian, 49 (0.3%) were residents Pacific Islands. 1615 people were Hispanic regardless of race

According to the census, 14,686 people (97.6% of the population) lived in households, and 215 (1.4%) were institutionalized.

There were 7,020 households out of which 1,526 had children under the age of 18. 2934 (41.8%) households were married couples, 653 (9.3%) had a female housekeeper without a man, and 233 (3.3%) had a male housekeeper without a wife. There were 349 (5.0%) unmarried non-sex partnerships. 2609 households (37.2%) had a householder living alone and 1,012 (14.4%) had a householder older than 65 years of age who lived alone. The average household size was 2.09.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Josh Randall (born 1972), actor
• Taylor Tolleson (* 1985), racing cyclist

Personalities related to the city

• Alice Bailey (1880–1949), theosophist, esotericist and author
• Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), marine biologist and philosopher; opened Pacific Biological Laboratories in Pacific Grove
• The writer Jonathan Nasaw (* 1947) comes from Pacific Grove.
• Amara Miller (* 2000), actress; grew up in Pacific Grove

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif .: Word Dancer Press. p. 932.

Picture gallery

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  Hopkins Marine Station

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  Perkins Park

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  Lovers Point

Web links

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