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Place Name
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Alameda County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Oakland
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Population
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1,279,182 (1990)
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Location
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California, United States, North America
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Latitude
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37°13'N
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Longitude
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119°46'W
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Alameda
, county (
737 sq mi/1,909 sq km; 1990 pop.
1,279,182), W Calif.;  Oakland; 37°13'N 119°46'W. Extends
from San Francisco Bay on W across Coast Ranges to San Joaquin Valley
in NE corner; includes Livermore Valley (wines); includes part of
Diablo Range in SE; drained by Alameda Creek; Coyote Creek forms part
of S boundary. Cities of East Bay area include
Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, and Emeryville, which have port
and industrial facilities and are linked to San Francisco (W) by San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (toll); in S, bay is spanned by San Mateo
Bridge (to N) near Hayward. Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct runs E-W through co.,
carries water from Sierra Nevada to San Francisco. Cattle; nursery
prods., roses, grapes, honey, oats. Gypsum, limestone, sand gravel,
clay quarrying; magnesite mining, stone quarrying. Calaveras Reservoir
on S boundary. Del Valle State Recreation Area to NE, near Livermore.
Redwood and Anthony Chabot Regional Park to N, near Oakland. Formed
1853.
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