Pajaro, California
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| Census designated place | |
Pajaro, viewed from the bridge across the Pajaro River
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 Location in Monterey County and the state of California |
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 Pajaro
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| Coordinates: 36°54′15″N 121°44′55″W / 36.90417°N 121.74861°WCoordinates: 36°54′15″N 121°44′55″W / 36.90417°N 121.74861°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 California
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| County | Monterey |
| Government | |
| • State senator | Bill Monning (D) |
| • Assemblymember | Mark Stone (D) |
| • U. S. rep. | Jimmy Panetta (D) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.927 sq mi (2.401 km2) |
| • Land | 0.927 sq mi (2.401 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% |
| Elevation | 26 ft (8 m) |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |
| • Total | 3,070 |
| • Density | 3,300/sq mi (1,300/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 95076 |
| Area code | 831 |
| FIPS code | 06-55044 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1659773 |
Pajaro is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. Pajaro is located on the south bank of the Pajaro River 5 miles (8 km) northeast of its mouth, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m). The population was 3,070 at the 2010 census, down from 3,384 at the 2000 census. The school district is in Santa Cruz County.
The town, the name of which is derived from pájaro (bird in Spanish), is in the Pajaro Valley on the Pajaro River, which divides the city from Watsonville and Santa Cruz County.
Pajaro is located at 36°54′15″N 121°44′55″W / 36.90417°N 121.74861°W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all of it land.
The Pajaro post office operated from 1872 to 1873 and from 1882 to 1888.
This town was heavily flooded in 1995 and 1998.
The oldest building in the community of Pajaro is the Porter-Vallejo Mansion. Constructed in the 1840s and remodeled multiple times, it was acquired in 1991 by then-Monterey County Supervisor Marc Del Piero and converted into a public library/senior citizen center. Additionally, it also houses a day-care facility for the children of migrant farm workers.
On Monday, May 11, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Pajaro for a ten-minute whistle stop address on his way to Santa Cruz. He arrived in his special train via the Southern Pacific at 8:50am and left at 9:00am.
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