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El Cerrito
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city in Contra Costa County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Contra Costa
- Incorporated
- August 23, 1917
- Mayor
- Gabe Quinto
- State senator
- Jesse Arreguín ( D )
- State assembly
- Buffy Wicks ( D )
- U s congress
- John Garamendi ( D )
- County board
- District 1:, John Gioia
- Total
- 3.67 sq mi (9.51 km )
- Land
- 3.67 sq mi (9.51 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0%
- Elevation
- 69 ft (21 m)
- Density
- 7,070/sq mi (2,730/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( PST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 ( PDT )
- Area codes
- 510, 341
- Fips code
- 06-21796
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
El Cerrito (Spanish for 'The Little Hill') is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census. El Cerrito was founded by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was incorporated in 1917 as a village with 1,500 residents. As of the census in 2022, there were 25,583 people and 10,637 households in the city.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “El Cerrito” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.