Pacheco, California
| Pacheco | |
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| Census-designated place | |
 Location in Contra Costa County and the state of California |
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 Pacheco
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| Coordinates: 37°59′01″N 122°04′31″W / 37.98361°N 122.07528°WCoordinates: 37°59′01″N 122°04′31″W / 37.98361°N 122.07528°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 California
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| County | Contra Costa |
| Government | |
| • State senator | Steve Glazer (D) |
| • Assemblymember | Tim Grayson (D) |
| • U. S. rep. | Mark DeSaulnier (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.740 sq mi (1.917 km2) |
| • Land | 0.740 sq mi (1.917 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% |
| Elevation | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,685 |
| • Density | 5,000/sq mi (1,900/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 94553 |
| Area code | 925 |
| FIPS code | 06-54764 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1659330, 2409012 |
Pacheco is a census-designated place (CDP) in Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 3,685 at the 2010 census. It is located 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Walnut Creek. 19 miles northeast of Oakland, California, and 27 miles northeast of San Francisco.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), all of it land.
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Pacheco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.
The town was laid out in 1857 by Dr. J.H. Carothers and named for Salvio Pacheco, grantee of the Rancho Monte del Diablo Mexican land grant. A post office operated at Pacheco from 1859 to 1913 and from 1955 to the present.
Pacheco was briefly a prosperous commercial center. During this period, Pacheco Slough was deep enough to receive ocean-based shipping. A series of fires and floods, as well as an earthquake, destroyed the town and filled the Slough with silt during the 1860s. Pacheco was subsequently depopulated by the attraction of the nearby town of Todos Santos, later to be known as Concord.
In January 2011 the Martinez City Council voted to annex those portions of Pacheco north of California State Route 4. In September 2011, Martinez reached a tax sharing deal to pave the way forward for the annexation.
In March 2012, sufficient protests were registered to force an election on the issue. In August 2012, the Martinez Police were mobilized to convince the voters to agree to the proposal.
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