Rancho Cordova, California
| City of Rancho Cordova | ||
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| Motto: "City Life Reinvented" | ||
 Location in Sacramento County |
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 City of Rancho Cordova
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| Coordinates: 38°35′21″N 121°18′10″W / 38.58917°N 121.30278°WCoordinates: 38°35′21″N 121°18′10″W / 38.58917°N 121.30278°W | ||
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 United States
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 California
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| County | Sacramento | |
| Incorporated | July 1, 2003 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Council-manager | |
| • Mayor | David M. Sander, Ph.D. | |
| • Vice mayor | Donald Terry | |
| • City manager | Cyrus Abhar | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 33.874 sq mi (87.733 km2) | |
| • Land | 33.507 sq mi (86.782 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.367 sq mi (0.951 km2) 1.08% | |
| Elevation | 89 ft (27 m) | |
| Population (2016) | ||
| • Total | 72,209 | |
| • Density | 2,100/sq mi (820/km2) | |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) | |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | |
| ZIP codes | 95670, 95741, 95742 | |
| Area code(s) | 916 | |
| FIPS code | 06-59444 | |
| GNIS feature ID | 1659466 | |
| Website | www |
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Rancho Cordova is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States which incorporated in 2003. It is part of the Sacramento Metropolitan Area. The population was 64,776 at the 2010 census. Rancho Cordova is the Sacramento area's largest employment sub-center, attracting over 50,000 commuters. The city is served by Sacramento Regional Transit's various bus lines and the Gold Line light rail line, though fewer than 0.1 percent of commuters to Rancho Cordova use the line according to the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2010-2012). In 2010 Rancho Cordova was named as a winner of the All-America City Award.
Originally called Mayhew's Crossing and Hangtown Crossing (c. 1855) during the Gold Rush era, the area was renamed Mayhew Station and Mills Station (c. 1900), respectively. The city itself was named after the Cordova Vineyard, which was located in the center of the Rancho Rio de los Americanos land grant. Original names of the town included Cordova Vineyards and Cordova Village, before it was officially named Rancho Cordova when a post office was established in the community in 1955. In the Gold Rush era of mid 19th century California, certain Placer mining activities took place in the Rancho Cordova environs, some traces of which disturbance are extant. The elevation of the generally level terrain is approximately 118 feet (36 m) above mean sea level. Lone Star Gravel Company and other companies have historically extracted younger gravels at depths of 30 to 40 feet (12 m) without encountering groundwater, which is characteristically found at about 100 feet (30 m). Partially confined groundwater generally flows to the southwest. For many years, Rancho Cordova was the Community called Mills, located in the eastern part of the Brighton Township.. It was called 'Mills' as early as 1893, supposedly because of the old grist mills that were close by along the river. At the top of Bradshaw, along the American River, close to the oak tree that marked the northwest boundary of the Spanish Land Grant, Rancho Rio De Los Americanos, there are still some remains of foundations. You can locate them by looking for the Grist Mill Dam Recreation Area along the American River Parkway. The southwestern boundary of the grant was 300 feet west of Bradshaw not far north of Florin Road. The boundary then went due east over to "Grantline" Road, and northeast along the roadway.
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