Redwood City

Redwood City is a city located on the Péninsule of San Francisco in the urban Région of San Francisco, in California. Redwood City is the chief town of the Comté of San Mateo. According to the Census of 2000, the city counts 75 402 inhabitants. Redwood City even has the only commercial port of the Baie of San Francisco in the south of San Francisco. The principal artery of the city east Broadway Avenue, even if there exists also a named street Main Street, which has an intersection with Broadway. Arches mark on Broadway the entry of the center town in the east and the west, posting the name of the city and its historical slogan, Climate Best by Government Test .

Geography

The coordinates of Redwood City are.

According to the Office of the census of the United States, the city has a surface of 89,5 km ², including 39,1 km ² of watery surface.

The sphere of influence of Redwood City includes the districts of Emerald Lake Hills and North Fair Oaks, even if the latter are located apart from the limits of the city and are listed in an individual way. The district of Redwood Shores also depends him on Redwood City, even if it is necessary to pass by the city close to San Carlos to join it in the vehicle. Although the population of Redwood City is essentially made up of higher middle-classes, the demography of the oriental party of the municipality is similar to that of East Palo Alto in terms of ethnicity and incomes.

The arteries of El Camino Real and Woodside Road cross Redwood City, respectively according to axes north-western/south-western and north-north-east/south-south-west, even if indication and the autochtones use the NORTH-SOUTH directions respectively and is/western, because El Camino Real leads to San Francisco to north and San Jose in the south, and Woodside Road joined bay with the Monts Santa Cruz. The highway U.S. Road 101 also crosses Redwood City and skirts Redwood Shores.

Climate

The slogan of Redwood City, invented in the Years 1920, proposes the sunny but moderate climate of the city, which receives on average 512 mm of precipitations per annum according to the National Weather Service, which has a station with Emerald Hills. The average temperature is of 25° C from April at September, and 17° C from October at March. The record of cold recorded dated January 11th, 1949 with -9° C, and the record of heat goes back to the 14 July 15th, 1972 with 43° C.

History

The first inhabitants of the area which was going later to become Redwood City were the Amerindian Ohlone, which populated the area of bay of San Francisco and the mounts Santa Cruz. In 1776, the place is crossed by the Spanish colonist Juan Bautista de Anza. Other Spaniards settle in the area thereafter, in particular monks franciscains which convert and use the Amerindians as labor.

At the end of the 18th century, the officer Don Jose Darío Argüello sees himself granted 69000 acres, delimited to north by San Mateo Creek, the south by San Francisquito Creek, the east by bay and extending to the west until the coastal chain. It baptizes its property Rancho of mow Pulgas (ranch of chips), which then includes what would become later the localities of Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Menlo Park and Woodside. The son of Gift Jose, Gift Luís Argüello, sees himself confirming in 1822 by the Mexican government his property right when Spain grants its independence to Mexico, which extends then until north from California. Rancho of mow Pulgas is then primarily used as ground of Pâturage.

In the Years 1840, the surge of American immigrants changes the landscape radically again. Following the américano-Mexican War of 1846 - 1848, the whole of California becomes American territory, before becoming later a State two years. Argüello must then defend their property right, a task become delicate because meanwhile, a corridor with hollow was discovered in bay, making it possible to transport by sea route the wood shot down in the interior of the grounds and embarked with a landing stage builds close to the site of the current downtown area. The lawyer of Argüello, Simon Mr. Mezes, manages to maintain the property right of the family attached to the Commission of the American grounds in 1853, and he inherits the property thereafter. Rather than to try to dislodge the many squatteurs around the landing stage, it decides to sell pieces, and baptizes the place “Mezesville”, but the nickname of Redwood City will remain. The locality continues to develop thanks to its port where forward not only wood, but also of the Céréale S and other goods, allowing the appearance of various industries, of which workshops of Naval construction, forging mills and Tannerie S.

The arrival of the Railroad in 1863 still precipitates the development of the place, where flow of San-Franciscains rich person who establish second home there. Redwood City becomes the March 27th 1868 the first municipality to incorporate the county of San Mateo. The city continues to thrive during the remainder of the 19th century, but the earthquake of 1906 causes a considerable surge of population and the real expansion of the city.

In 1920, Redwood City counts 5500 inhabitants, a figure which will double in the following decade, which sees also the appearance of a body of firemen and an municipal police. The expansion of the city starts to accelerate in its Western part, and the port and the maritime corridor are widened to be able to accommodate at the same time activities of pleasure and ships of cargo liner starting from 1937. The port rents even two stations of damping to U.S. Navy during the Second world war.

The population explodes after the war, of 12 400 in 1940 with 46 300 in 1960. The city annexes some 65 km ² Marécage S and saline S, but practical Marais a policy of conversation. Bair Island is thus established like a sanctuary for local fauna and the flora. The Années 1960 see the development of the district of Redwood Shores along the bay, which will accommodate residential developments but also companies of state-of-the-art technologies.

Ampex, founded in the city close to San Carlos, moves in Redwood City in 1963, where the company of archival medium always has its seat. Follow in particular Oracle Corporation in the Années 1980, the developer of video games Electronic Arts, the specialist in Data management Informatica Corporation and the company of peripheral data processing Kensington Technology Group.

Redwood City was under the fire of the national topicality of June to December 2004 when the court of the city accommodates the lawsuit of Scott Peterson.

The downtown area, which in spite of construction of new public buildings in years 1980 and 1990 remained without life (in front of at the city the nickname of Deadwood City that some of its inhabitants grant to him), was the subject of an aggressive revitalization in 2006 with the construction of a shopping mall comprising a cinematographic complex in particular, and the restoration of a place before the historical court of justice, of which only the original structure and the cupola, going back to 1910, were preserved. The city also installed at the beginning of 2007 of the ticket machines of parking functioning with the solar energy.

Demography

The Bureau of the census of the United States estimated at 73 472 the number of inhabitants in 2003, a fall of 2,6% compared to the census of 2000, when Redwood City counted 75 402 inhabitants, 28 060 hearths and 17 902 families. The Population density was of 1 494,5/km ². The city counted 28 921 residences, is a density of 573,2/km ². The ethnic composition divides in the following way;: 68,97% of white, 2,54% of Afro-American S, 0,51% of Amerindian S, 8,91% of Asian origin, 0,88% originating in Oceania, 13,97% of another ethnicity and 4,22% being defined as mixed origin. The Hispanic ones or latinos accounted for 31,24% of the population.

Among the 28 060 hearths, 31,3% counted children of less than 18 years living under the same roof, 49,2% were married couples living together, 9,9% counted a woman without husband présoit, and 36,2% were not regarded as families. 27,1% of the hearths consisted from only one individual and 8,0% of a person of more than 65 years living alone. The median number of people per hearth was of 2,62, and the average family counted 3,20 people.

23,2% of the inhabitants of the city had less than 18 years, 8,4% between 18 and 24 years, 37,4% between 25 and 44 years, 20,9% between 45 and 64 and 10,2% 65 years or more. The median age was 35 years. There were 101,2 men for 100 women, and 100,4 18 year old men or more 100 women in the same age bracket.

The median income by hearth was of 66 748 US dollars, and the median income by family was of 73 798 $. The men had a median income of 50 345 $ against 41 125 $ for the women. The Income per head was of 34 042 $. Approximately 3,9% of the families and 6,0% of the population were under the Poverty line, in particular 6,3% of less than 18 years and 6,3% of the 65 years old inhabitants and more.

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