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33-627: Wildcat Creek may refer to: Wildcat Creek (California) Wildcat Creek (Indiana) Wildcat Creek (Kansas River tributary) , a stream in Kansas Wildcat Creek (Munkers Creek tributary) , a stream in Kansas Wildcat Creek (West Branch Whitewater River tributary) , a stream in Kansas Wildcat Creek, Kentucky, a tributary of Goose Creek (Oneida, Kentucky) Wildcat Creek (Minnesota) Wildcat Creek (Grand River) ,

66-625: A diversity of endangered and threatened species, including the California clapper rail ( Rallus longirostris obsoletus ), the black rail ( Laterallus jamaicensis ), the salt marsh harvest mouse ( Reithrodontomys raviventris ), and the San Pablo vole ( Microtus californicus sanpabloensis ). In April 1991, a student at the University California, Berkeley electrofished the two perennial reaches of Wildcat Creek to determine

99-513: A major north–south arterial boulevard. San Pablo Avenue is home to a BRT line, the 72R, that connects the college with Downtown Oakland and BART . The college services as a major transit hub for buses and the city. Interstate 80 flanks the eastern boundary of the city. The city hosts the county's western campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. This school is named Contra Costa College and

132-496: A median income of $ 31,599 versus $ 28,140 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 14,303. About 15.5% of families and 18.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including 23.0% of those under age 18 and 11.5% of those age 65 or over. The languages spoken were 42.49% English, 40.3% Spanish, 5.47% Tagalog, 2.8% Vietnamese, 2.52% Miao-Mien, 1.95% Laotian, 1.18% Punjabi, 0.92% Portuguese, 0.75% Chinese, 0.57% Hindi, and 0.95% other languages spoken by less than 0.5% of

165-608: A stream in Missouri Wildcat Creek (Wachita Creek) , a stream in Missouri Wildcat Creek (Lackawanna River) , in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Wildcat Creek (Siuslaw River) , Lane County, Oregon Wildcat Creek (Beaver County, Utah) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

198-508: Is Patricia Ponce. Currently, the city council consists of Abel Pineda, Arturo Cruz, Elizabeth Pabon-Alvarado, and Rita Xavier. Ponce is mayor, and Cruz, Pabon-Alvarado, and Xavier are council members. Dorothy Gantt is the city Clerk. Viviana Toledo is the city treasurer. The city of San Pablo is on land once occupied by the Cuchiyun band of the Ohlone indigenous people. This Ohlone territory

231-609: Is in addition to services around San Pablo and to El Sobrante . There is transbay service directly to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal . There is owl service to Richmond, Pinole , and El Cerrito. AC also provides school service to high and middle schools of the West Contra Costa Unified School District . WestCat provides a link between Contra Costa College and Hercules Transit Center along San Pablo Avenue

264-724: The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) planted 615 steelhead from Redwood Creek (tributary to San Leandro Creek ) into Wildcat Creek between Alvarado Park and the Regional Parks Botanic Garden . The EBPRD reported that no trout were present in Wildcat Creek prior to this stocking, so that the newly established population would provide a second and separate source for a "precarious" and "unique" genetic stock. This re-introduction has been successful with steelhead reproducing in

297-471: The San Andreas Fault , which lies to the west. Interstate 80 ( Eastshore Freeway ) passes through San Pablo. There are several communities to the north of (and separated from) the city, but which have San Pablo mailing addresses. These include the census areas of Tara Hills, Bayview, and Montalvin. According to the city's 2021-2022 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in

330-762: The San Francisco Presidio . The grant was given the name Rancho San Pablo . This is the origin of the city's name, as well as the name of one the East Bay's oldest principal roads: San Pablo Avenue (formerly known, during the Spanish colonial era, as El Camino Real de la Contra Costa, which means "The Royal Way of the Opposite Coast," referring to the costal region opposite San Francisco). San Pablo Avenue, originating in San Pablo, runs through

363-505: The Berkeley Hills near the park's merry-go-round and a potamodromous population makes its way up the creek from Lake Anza every spring to spawn. A second native fish, the three-spined stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ) thrives in the creek and its tributaries. The recovering 387-acre (157 ha) Wildcat Marsh (once stretching to San Pablo Creek as part of a dynamic, contiguous 2,000-acre (810 ha) system) supports

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396-538: The City of San Pablo announced that it had received a $ 1.8 million grant from the state Department of Water Resources to clean up Wildcat Creek. Wildcat Creek supported a steelhead run historically, but degradation of habitat and construction of passage barriers from urbanization likely resulted in their extirpation sometime after 1915. The dams that form both of these artificial lakes Lake Anza and Jewel Lake are impassable barriers to spawning steelhead. In September 1983,

429-755: The Governors Environmental and Economic Leadership award in 2003. Founded in 1985, it is the oldest, continuing running urban watershed council in California. In 2004, the Wildcat San Pablo Watershed Council began work on the Wildcat Creek Watershed Restoration Plan (WRAP), to address recurring flood damages within the City of San Pablo. In April, 2010, the plan was published and addressed three goals: In September 2010

462-504: The Rancho San Pablo Wildcat Creek appears as Arroyo Seco (Dry Creek). Later it was also known as Arroyo Chiquito (Tiny Creek). An 1861 map indicates that Wildcat Creek was called Little San Pablo Creek then. "Big" San Pablo Creek is located in the next drainage east of the drainage of Wildcat Creek. There are over fifty geographic place names in California with the word "wildcat", which either refers to

495-501: The adobe facing the interior courtyard. The first post office was established in 1854. The city incorporated in 1948. Since the middle of the 20th century, College Center at El Portal has been the backbone of the community's retail economy. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km ), all land. San Pablo lies on a sedimentary plain between

528-579: The city are: The Casino San Pablo is considered the economic backbone of the city. At the 2010 census San Pablo had a population of 29,139. The population density was 11,063.4 inhabitants per square mile (4,271.6/km ). The racial makeup of San Pablo was 9,391 (32.2%) White, 4,600 (15.8%) African American, 244 (0.8%) Native American, 4,353 (14.9%) Asian, 172 (0.6%) Pacific Islander, 8,812 (30.2%) from other races, and 1,567 (5.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16,462 persons (56.5%). The census reported that 28,698 people (98.5% of

561-412: The city of San Pablo and portions of the city of Richmond . Where it exits the hills, it passes through Alvarado Park , which includes a WPA -constructed stone arch bridge over the creek. It also courses through San Pablo's civic center and Davis Park. Wildcat Creek culminates in the 387-acre (157 ha) Wildcat Marsh and thence to San Pablo Bay. The Wildcat San Pablo Creeks Watershed Council won

594-575: The city was 31.62% White, 18.33% Black or African American, 0.90% Native American, 16.37% Asian, 0.51% Pacific Islander, 25.44% from other races, and 6.83% from two or more races. 44.65% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Of the 9,051 households in San Pablo, 44.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.5% were married couples living together, 19.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.3% were non-families. 22.5% of households were one person and 8.1% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size

627-419: The condition of O. mykiss populations. The upper reach was located above Lake Anza, while the lower reach was at the northwest edge of Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. The upper reach produced 46 O. mykiss (86–283 millimetres (3.4–11.1 in) FL). In the lower reach, 71 O. mykiss were caught (71–194 millimetres (2.8–7.6 in)). The resulting study reported that the presence of multiple age classes in both

660-662: The creek below Jewel Lake. According to CEMAR's San Francisco Estuary Watersheds Evaluation of 2007, only 5.1 miles (8.2 km) of the watershed's total 22.22 miles (35.76 km) of stream channel is suitable and available to steelhead. Recently the East Bay has seen a renaissance of the native coastal rainbow trout in the watershed, and some have been spotted in the creek in Downtown Richmond nesting in submerged shopping carts and other garbage. The fish have also been spotted in Tilden Regional Park in

693-441: The entire East Bay. San Pablo's Alvarado Adobe has been designated a California State Landmark (No.512), as a historic reproduction of the city's Mexican era. The home was originally constructed in 1842 by Jesús Maria Castro, one of Francisco Castro's sons, for his mother, Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro . Upon Gabriéla's death in 1851, it was inherited by her daughter, Martina Castro de Alvarado, wife of Juan Bautista Alvarado , who

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726-509: The first recorded Spanish expedition crossed Wildcat Creek, although the Spaniards may have traveled this far north as early as 1769. The 1772 Fages and 1776 de Anza expeditions received festive greetings at two villages along Wildcat Creek, one of which was estimated at 100 – 200 people in size. Within three decades, nearly all the native Huchiun had been forced to move to Mission Dolores and convert to Christianity. On an 1830 diseño of

759-520: The historic presence of bobcats ( Lynx rufus ) or to its meaning as an "unsound scheme". The Wildcat Creek watershed drains 11.1 square miles (29 km ). The creek originates on Vollmer Peak in Tilden Regional Park just east of the city of Berkeley . It feeds the artificial Lake Anza (constructed in 1938) as well as the smaller reservoir Jewel Lake (constructed in 1921) along its course. In its lower course, it passes through

792-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wildcat_Creek&oldid=1126010266 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wildcat Creek (California) In 1772,

825-529: The northern end of the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Bay , although the city limits do not extend to the bayshore. Two principle creeks traverse the city: Wildcat Creek and San Pablo Creek . Both originate in the mountain ranges to its southeast. The minor Rheem Creek also runs through the city. The northeastern limits of San Pablo are also traversed by the Hayward Fault , a major branch of

858-537: The owners and 4,651 (53.1%) by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.3%. 13,903 people (47.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 14,795 people (50.8%) lived in rental housing units. At the 2000 census there were 30,215 people in 9,051 households, including 6,489 families, in the city. The population density was 4,521.7/km (11,711/sq mi). There were 9,340 housing units at an average density of 1,397.7 units/km (3,620 units/sq mi). The racial makeup of

891-721: The population each. According to the California Secretary of State , as of February 10, 2019, San Pablo has 11,121 registered voters. Of those, 6,756 (60.7%) are registered Democrats , 626 (5.6%) are registered Republicans , and 3,281 (29.5%) have declined to state a political party. The community is served by AC Transit buses that connect it with Hilltop Mall Shopping Center , Richmond Parkway Transit Center , and Richmond BART and Amtrak station in Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte BART in El Cerrito . This

924-617: The population) lived in households, 68 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 373 (1.3%) were institutionalized. There were 8,761 households, 4,099 (46.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 3,905 (44.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,715 (19.6%) had a female householder with no husband present, 738 (8.4%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 638 (7.3%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 59 (0.7%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 1,854 households (21.2%) were one person and 638 (7.3%) had someone living alone who

957-479: The upper and lower reaches indicated successful spawning in the two areas (Cohen 1991). The study also noted age 3+ O. mykiss from Lake Anza spawning in upper reaches of Wildcat Creek. San Pablo, California San Pablo ( Spanish for " Saint Paul ") is an enclave city in Contra Costa County , California , United States. The population was 32,127 at the 2020 census. The current mayor

990-416: Was 3.29 and the average family size was 3.87. The age distribution was 31.7% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from 25 to 44, 16.9% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% 65 or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males. The median household income was $ 37,184 and the median family income was $ 42,042. Males had

1023-658: Was 65 or older. The average household size was 3.28. There were 6,358 families (72.6% of households); the average family size was 3.83. The age distribution was 8,244 people (28.3%) under the age of 18, 3,233 people (11.1%) aged 18 to 24, 8,734 people (30.0%) aged 25 to 44, 6,364 people (21.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,564 people (8.8%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 31.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males. There were 9,571 housing units at an average density of 3,633.9 units per square mile (1,403.1 units/km ),of which 8,761 were occupied, 4,110 (46.9%) by

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1056-474: Was Governor of California from 1836 to 1842. The Alvarado Adobe was demolished in the mid-20th century to make way for a motel. A reproduction was built later in the century, and is now located in San Pablo Civic Center, on the northwest corner of San Pablo Avenue and Church Lane. A single beam from the original structure is incorporated into the roof of the replacement structure, at the rear of

1089-609: Was claimed for the king of Spain in the late 18th century. and was granted for grazing purposes to the Mission Dolores located in today's San Francisco , but these church properties were secularized (or made separate from the Catholic church) when Mexico became independent from Spain in 1821. In 1823, Mexican governor Luís Antonio Argüello granted the Ohlone territory to Francisco María Castro , an ex-soldier stationed at

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