Sacramento CA is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California, making it the state's political center and a hub for lobbying and think tanks.
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53 Facts About Sacramento CA
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Sacramento CA is the cultural and economic core of the Greater Sacramento CA area, which at the 2020 census had a population of 2,680,831, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in California.
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In 1839, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Mexican governor of Alta California, granted the responsibility of colonizing the Sacramento CA Valley to Swiss-born Mexican citizen John Augustus Sutter, who subsequently established Sutter's Fort and the settlement at the Rancho Nueva Helvetia.
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Sacramento CA is the fastest-growing major city in California, owing to its status as a notable political center on the West Coast and as a major educational hub, home of California State University, Sacramento CA and University of California, Davis.
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Similarly, Sacramento CA is a major center for the California healthcare industry, as the seat of Sutter Health, the world-renowned UC Davis Medical Center, and the UC Davis School of Medicine.
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Sacramento CA is known for its evolving contemporary culture, and is dubbed the most "hipster city" in California.
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Residents of Sacramento CA adopted a city charter in 1849, which was recognized by the state legislature in 1850.
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Sacramento CA is the oldest incorporated city in California, incorporated on February 27,1850.
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Between October and December of 1850, Sacramento CA was hit with a cholera epidemic that killed 1000 residents, including Mayor Bigelow and 17 of the city's 40 physicians.
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Sacramento CA effectively controlled commerce on these rivers, and public works projects were funded through taxes levied on goods unloaded from boats and loaded onto rail cars in the historic Sacramento CA Rail Yards.
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From 1862 until the mid-1870s, Sacramento CA raised the level of its downtown by building reinforced brick walls on its downtown streets, and filling the resulting street walls with dirt.
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Sacramento CA County is served by a customer-owned electric utility, the Sacramento CA Municipal Utility District.
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The Nationalist Chinese flagship docked at the Port of Sacramento CA, being first ocean-going vessel in Sacramento CA since the steamship Harpoon in 1934.
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In spite of military base closures and the decline of agricultural food processing, Sacramento CA has continued to experience population growth in recent years.
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Sacramento CA has long been known as the "City of Trees" owing to its abundant urban forest.
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Sacramento CA has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, characterized by very hot, dry summers and cool winters with a decent amount of rainfall.
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In February 1992, Sacramento CA had 16 consecutive days of rain, resulting in an accumulation of 6.
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On rare occasions, monsoonal moisture surges from the Desert Southwest can bring upper-level moisture to the Sacramento CA region, leading to increased summer cloudiness, humidity, and even light showers and thunderstorms.
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Sacramento CA is the second most flood susceptible city in the United States after New Orleans.
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Port of Sacramento CA has been plagued with operating losses in recent years and faces bankruptcy.
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The California Automobile Museum, just south of Old Sacramento CA, is filled with automotive history and vehicles from 1880 to 2006 and is the oldest non-profit automotive museum in the West.
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Sacramento CA area has one of the largest collections of community theatres in California.
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Sacramento CA Metropolitan Arts Commission is an organization that was established as the Sacramento CA arts council in 1977 to provide several arts programs for the city.
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Sacramento CA Second Saturday Art Walk is a program of local art galleries that stay open into the late evenings every second Saturday of each month, providing a unique experience for the local population as well as tourists to view original art and meet the artists themselves.
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Sacramento CA is home to the Wide Open Walls Festival where artists from across the world have added more than 140 murals across the city since the festival's inception in 2016.
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Sacramento CA is home to one of California's oldest Latino cultural centers, the Latino Center of Art and Culture The Latino Center of Art and Culture was founded in the early '70's by activist Chicano students to combat racism and instill pride in the Chicano community.
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Sacramento CA has a reputation as a center for Dixieland jazz, because of the Sacramento CA Jazz Jubilee which was held every Memorial Day weekend until 2017.
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Sacramento CA has been host to the four day Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park since 2012.
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Note, Sacramento CA has been home to various actors, including Eddie Murphy, who resided in the Riverlake community of Pocket-Greenhaven with his then wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy, a fashion model and Sacramento CA native.
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Sacramento CA's Chinatown was on "I" Street from Second to Sixth Streets.
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Newspapers such as The Sacramento CA Union wrote stories at the time that portrayed the Chinese in an unfavorable light to inspire ethnic discrimination and drive the Chinese away.
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In 2012, Sacramento CA started the marketing campaign as "America's Farm-to-Fork Capital" due to Sacramento CA's many restaurants that source their food from the numerous surrounding farms.
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Sacramento CA is home to well-known cookbook authors, Biba Caggiano of Biba's Restaurant and Mai Pham of Lemongrass and Star Ginger.
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Sacramento CA is home to one major league sports team – the Sacramento CA Kings of the National Basketball Association.
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Sacramento CA is the former home of two professional basketball teams.
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Sacramento CA was formerly home to the now defunct Sacramento CA Monarchs of the WNBA.
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Sacramento CA is both the capital city of California and the county seat of Sacramento CA County.
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Government of Sacramento CA operates as a charter city under the Charter of the City of Sacramento CA.
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The campus, taught by main campus professors, Sacramento CA-based professors, and practitioners in the State Capitol and state agencies, offers Master of Public Administration, Masters of Public Policy, and Master of Public Health degrees.
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Western Seminary has one of its four campuses in Sacramento CA, which opened on the campus of Arcade Church in 1991.
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Art Institute of California – Sacramento CA was established in 2007, and is a branch of The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles.
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Universal Technical Institute is in Sacramento CA; it offers automotive programs in auto mechanical, auto body, and diesel.
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The Sacramento CA area is served by various public school districts, including the Sacramento CA City Unified School District, Natomas Unified School District, San Juan Unified School District, Twin Rivers Unified School District, and Elk Grove Unified School District.
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The Campus Commons area and the small portions of the Sierra Oaks neighborhood that fall into the city of Sacramento CA are served by the San Juan Unified School District.
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Sacramento CA is a control city and the region is served by several highways and freeways.
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US Highway 50 begins its eastern journey in West Sacramento CA, co-signed with Business 80, but then splits off and heads toward South Lake Tahoe as the El Dorado Freeway.
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California State Highway 99 runs through Sacramento CA, heading closer to the eastern edge of the Central Valley, connecting to Marysville and Yuba City in the north, and Fresno and Bakersfield in the south.
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Sacramento CA is the northern terminus of the Amtrak California San Joaquins route which provide direct multiple-frequency passenger rail service to California's Central Valley as far as Bakersfield; Thruway Motorcoach connections are available from the trains at Bakersfield to Southern California and Southern Nevada.
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Sacramento CA is a stop along Amtrak's Coast Starlight route which provides scenic service to Seattle via Klamath Falls and Portland to the north and to Los Angeles via San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara to the south.
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Sacramento CA has the second busiest Amtrak station in California and the seventh busiest in the country.
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Sacramento CA is expected to serve as the northern terminus of the California High-Speed Rail system.
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