Richmond (California)

Richmond
Location in California
Richmond
Basic data
Foundation :	1905
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Contra Costa County
Coordinates :	37 ° 56 ′  N , 122 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′  N , 122 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	103,701 (as of 2010)
Population density :	1,336.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	136.2 km 2  (approx. 53 mi 2 ) of which 77.6 km 2  (approx. 30 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	57 m
Postal code :	94802
Area code :	+1 510
FIPS :	06-60620
GNIS ID :	1659507
Website :	www.ci.richmond.ca.us
Mayor :	Tom Butt ( D )
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Richmond [ ˈrɪtʃmənd ] is a city in western Contra Costa County in the US state of California . It is located on the San Francisco Bay Area about 18 miles from San Francisco.

Richmond has a population of 103,701 as of April 1, 2010. The urban area has a size of about 136.2 km², but in addition there are the land and water areas, whereby the total size of Richmond amounts to about 272.3 km².

Richmond has a large port with a cargo turnover of around 26 million tons per year and is known for its shipbuilding industry, which gained in importance during World War II and increased the population from 23,000 to 99,000.

Today, the main employer is the US mineral oil company Chevron , which has its main refinery here with a storage capacity of 15 million barrels .

ethnicities

The ethnic groups in the city of Richmond are:

• 36.06% black or African American
• 26.53% Hispanics / Latino
• 21.36% whiteness
• 12.29% Asian
• 0.64% Indians (Native American)
• 0.50% Pacific Islanders
• 13.86% from other ethnic groups
• 5.27% of two or more races

Districts

• Atchison Village
• Carriage Hills
• Central Richmond
• Downtown
• El Sobrante Hills
• Marina Bay
• Mira Vista
• North Richmond
• Point Isabel
• Point Richmond
• Pullman
• Richmond Annex
• South Richmond

The most important downtown street, Downtown, is McDonald Avenue, where many shops line up, especially between 19th and 24th Street.

media

Newspapers

There are four local newspapers in Richmond : the Richmond Post , Fronteras (a Spanish newspaper), the Richmond Globe, and the West County Times , another variation of the County Times .

watch TV

Richmond has its own broadcaster, KCRT-TV . This often broadcasts historical events, but also music videos, for example.

radio

With KNEW (AM) there is also a radio station that broadcasts from Point Isabel .

sons and daughters of the town

• Jerry Dodgion (* 1932), jazz saxophonist
• Gregg Herken (* 1947), historian
• Carl Franklin (* 1949), actor, director and screenwriter
• Glenn Plummer (born 1961), actor
• Les Claypool (born 1963), musician
• Gary Holt (* 1964), guitarist and music producer
• Tyffany Million (born 1966), porn actress
• Jason Becker (* 1969), guitarist
• Iamsu! (* 1989), rapper

Residents of the city

• Master P (* 1967), rapper and founder of P. Miller
• Ricky Jordan , Philadelphia Phillies baseball player

Town twinning

The City of Richmond has partnerships with the following cities:

• Shimada , Japan ( Japanese : 島 田 市, 日本)
• Port city of Regla , Cuba
• Zhoushan , China ( Chinese : 舟山 市, 中华人民共和国)

Others

Martin Luther King planned to come to Richmond just before he was assassinated.

The American movie Coach Carter (2005) is set in Richmond. The film is about basketball coach Ken Carter ( Samuel L. Jackson ) who uses basketball to help students at the local high school have a future beyond gangs, drugs and prison. R'n'B singer Ashanti shines in another role. The film is based on a true story.

Web links

Commons : Richmond, California  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E-1 Population Estimates for Cities, Counties and the State with Annual Percent Change - January 1, 2006 and 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. California Department of the Treasury, May 2007. 
2. ↑ city-data.com: Statistics on Richmond, California
3. ↑ KochEntertainment.com: Profile of Master P
4. ↑ baseball-reference.com: Profile of Ricky Jordan
5. ^ Son of King shining light on poor , by John Geluardi, Contra Costa Times , May 1, 2007