Folsom, California
| City of Folsom | |
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Historic Sutter Street
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| Motto: "Distinctive by Nature" | |
 Location in Sacramento County and the state of California |
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 City of Folsom
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| Coordinates: 38°40′20″N 121°9′28″W / 38.67222°N 121.15778°WCoordinates: 38°40′20″N 121°9′28″W / 38.67222°N 121.15778°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Sacramento |
| Incorporated | April 20, 1946 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Andy Morin |
| Area | |
| • Total | 24.301 sq mi (62.939 km2) |
| • Land | 21.945 sq mi (56.838 km2) |
| • Water | 2.356 sq mi (6.101 km2) 9.69% |
| Elevation | 220 ft (67 m) |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |
| • Total | 72,203 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 76,375 |
| • Density | 3,000/sq mi (1,100/km2) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 95630, 95671, 95763 |
| Area code(s) | 916 |
| FIPS code | 06-24638 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 277516, 2410516 |
| Website | ci |
Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. Folsom is most commonly known for its infamous Folsom Prison. The population was 72,203 at the 2010 census.
Folsom is part of the Sacramento−Arden-Arcade−Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Folsom is named for Joseph Libbey Folsom who purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking fortune in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Though few amassed a great deal of wealth, the city prospered due to Joseph Folsom's lobbying to get a railway to connect the town with Sacramento. Joseph died in 1855, and Granite City was later renamed to Folsom in his honor. The railway was abandoned in the 1980s but opened up as the terminus of the Gold Line of Sacramento Regional Transit District's light rail service in 2005. A few former gold-rush era towns are located within city limits of Folsom, including Prairie City, Salmon Falls, and Mormon Island (though these towns no longer exist).
Folsom hosted a significant Chinese American community when it was first incorporated, but arsonists burned Folsom's Chinatown in March 1886, driving Chinese Americans out of town.
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