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The Oakland Hills (in gold) lie between Oakland's flatlands and East Bay Regional Park District. Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California. [1] The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.
Downtown and West Oakland are located entirely in the flatlands, while North and East Oakland incorporate lower hills and flatlands neighborhoods. This hills/flatlands division extends beyond Oakland's borders into neighboring cities in the East Bay's urban core such as Berkeley , Hayward , San Leandro , and Richmond .
East Oakland, together with West Oakland and portions of North Oakland, is a hub for Northern California's African American community. Hip hop culture is associated with East Oakland. It is known within the hip hop community as "Oaktown", "O-Town" (old school names), or currently, "The Town". [ 13 ]
The greater Oakland area [specify] has the fifth largest cluster of "elite zip codes" ranked by the number of households with the highest combination of income and education. [ 105 ] 37.9% of residents over 25 years of age have bachelor's degree or higher. [ 106 ]
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [1] As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes.
The Keller fire ignited a day before the 33-year anniversary of the Oakland Hills fire that killed 25 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 homes near the area that burned Friday.
Dozens of firefighters worked Friday to put out a large fast-moving brush fire that threatened hundreds of homes in the Oakland hills in California and sparked evacuations of hundreds of residents ...
Montclair is located along the western slope of the Oakland Hills from a valley formed by the Hayward Fault to the upper ridge of the hills. Although there is no formal definition of the neighborhood, the general boundaries are Highway 24 to the north, Joaquin Miller Road to the south, the city of Piedmont to the west and the Contra Costa ...