Walnut Creek (Location, California)

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Walnut Creek
Nickname : The Creek, Dub C
Walnut Creek Location in California
Basic data
Foundation :	1849
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Contra Costa County
Coordinates :	37 ° 55 ′  N , 122 ° 3 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 55 ′  N , 122 ° 3 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	65,300 (as of 2004)
Population density :	1,293.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	50.5 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) of which 50.5 km 2  (approx. 19 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	40 m
Postcodes :	94595-94598
Area code :	+1 925
FIPS :	06-83346
GNIS ID :	1660120
Website :	www.walnut-creek.org
Mayor :	Cindy Silva

Walnut Creek is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the US state of California , United States . It belongs to the Contra Costa County , one of the nine local authorities in the area. In 2004, 65,300 inhabitants lived in its urban area with a size of 24.8 km².

The USA's first free newspaper appeared here in the 1940s .

Until its dissolution in 2015, the main studio of the computer game manufacturer Maxis was in Walnut Creek .

During the COVID-19 pandemic , the city hit the headlines around the world in May 2020 when it was reported from the local John Muir Medical Center that it had reached the usual number of suicide attempts in a year in just four weeks and thus more suicide deaths the mass quarantine (“lockdown”) as deaths from the “coronavirus” SARS-CoV-2 . Previously, the head of the hospital's emergency room, Mike deBoisblanc, had called the number of attempted suicides "unprecedented" on ABC local channel KGO-TV , which the Fox News Channel picked up.

Town twinning

• Siófok , Hungary
• Noceto , Italy

sons and daughters of the town

• Matt Anger (* 1963), former professional tennis player
• Jabari Bird (born 1994), basketball player
• Garett Bolles (born 1992), football player
• Jessica Bowman (born 1980), actress
• David Brown (1928-2004), rower
• TJ Cox (born 1963), politician
• Corey Duffel (* 1984), professional skateboarder
• Peter Heizer (* 1977), American-German basketball player
• Kyle Gass (* 1960), musician
• Debbie Graham (born 1970), tennis player
• Alice Greczyn (* 1986), actress
• Julia Hiller (* 1987), athlete
• Sabrina Ionescu (* 1997), basketball player
• Randy Johnson (born 1963), baseball player
• Douglas A. Kelt (* 1959), mammal loge
• Jeff Madrigali (* 1956), regatta sailor
• Daron Rahlves (* 1973), ski racer
• Greg Sestero (* 1978), actor, writer, producer and model
• Shoshannah Stern (* 1980), actress
• Christy Turlington (* 1969), photo model
• Katie Volynets (* 2001), tennis player
• Matthew Wood (born 1972), sound engineer and voice actor
• The Story So Far , pop-punk band

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Example: Doctors warn of the consequences of the Corona measures: "As many suicide attempts as usual in one year". RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland , May 24, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020 . 
2. ^ Louis Casiano: Bay Area doctors seeing more suicides during coronavirus stay-at-home order. Fox News Channel , May 21, 2020, accessed July 15, 2020 .