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California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6] They can be organized as either a charter municipality, governed by its own charter, or a general-law municipality (or "code city"), governed by state statute.
That is, it's a list of the names of cities, towns, lakes, and other geographic places that are derived from acronyms. Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words.
The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
cities; towns, unincorporated communities; counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of California. Information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable are also included.
Monrovia is a city in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States.Monrovia is the fourth-oldest general-law city in Los Angeles County and the L.A. Basin (after Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Pasadena, all now charter cities [5]).
By 1927, the small city had a population of 857 with five churches, a public library, a bank, a high school, two local newspapers, several lumber yards, commercial packing houses, and a dehydrating plant. The city, one of Riverside County's largest apple growers, was dubbed "the land of the big red apple" by local residents in its early years.
Hollister is a city in and the county seat of San Benito County, located in the Central Coast region of California, United States.With a 2020 United States census population of 41,678, [6] Hollister is one of the most populous cities in the Monterey Bay Area and a member of the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments.
Placentia (/ p l ə ˈ s ɛ n ʃ ə /) is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States. Its population was 51,233 during the 2020 census, up from 46,488 in the 2000 census. This includes the community of Atwood, which is included in the city of Placentia, and