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Tassajara, California
Unincorporated community in California, United States
Unincorporated community in California, United States
| Field | Value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Tassajara | |||||||||
| settlement_type | Unincorporated community | |||||||||
| image_skyline | Tassajara School View 1.JPG | |||||||||
| image_caption | Tassajara School from 1889 | |||||||||
| pushpin_map | California | |||||||||
| pushpin_label_position | bottom | |||||||||
| pushpin_map_caption | Location in California | |||||||||
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| subdivision_type | Country | |||||||||
| subdivision_name | United States | |||||||||
| subdivision_type1 | State | |||||||||
| subdivision_name1 | California | |||||||||
| subdivision_type2 | County | |||||||||
| subdivision_name2 | Contra Costa County | |||||||||
| established_title | ||||||||||
| elevation_footnotes | ||||||||||
| elevation_ft | 709 | |||||||||
| elevation_m | 216 | |||||||||
| blank_name | GNIS ID | |||||||||
| url | ||||||||||
| title | Tassajara (Contra Costa County, California) | |||||||||
| work | Geographic Names Information System | |||||||||
| publisher | United States Geological Survey | |||||||||
| accessdate | May 11, 2014 | |||||||||
| }}</ref><ref name | "FIPS55" | |||||||||
| {{cite web | url | https://geonames.usgs.gov/fips55/CAfips55_delim.txt | title=FIPS55 Data: California | work=FIPS55 Data | publisher=United States Geological Survey | date=February 23, 2006 | accessdate=May 11, 2014 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618155602/http://geonames.usgs.gov/fips55/CAfips55_delim.txt | archivedate=June 18, 2006 }} |
| blank_info | ||||||||||
| blank1_name | FIPS code | |||||||||
| blank1_info | 06-77973 |
Tassajara, a variation of the Spanish word "tasajera" (Spanish for "place where the meat is hung" or "meat drier"), is an unincorporated community in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is located on the east bank of Tassajara Creek, 6.5 mi south-southeast of Mount Diablo, at an elevation of 709 feet (216 m). Together with Blackhawk it forms the Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara census designated place (CDP).
History
Until 1959, it was known as Tassajero;.
A post office operated at Tassajara from 1896 to 1922.
Census county division
Tassajara is also the name of the wider unincorporated census county division (CCD) located on the eastern side of Mount Diablo in central Contra Costa County, California. The area covers approximately 153 sqmi, much of it open space, and contains the southern portion of Mount Diablo State Park, the Black Diamond Mines, Morgan Territory, Round Valley and Vasco Caves regional preserves, as well as the Los Vaqueros reservoir.
References
References
- [https://museumsrv.org/post-1483/ Museum of San Ramon Valley - Tassajara]
- {{California's Geographic Names. 711
- [https://data.census.gov/profile/Tassajara_CCD,_Contra_Costa_County,_California?g=060XX00US0601393310 Tassajara CCD, Map and Demographics, United States Census Bureau]
- [https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/6988/Open-Space-CCC-and-EBRPD-Liaison-Committ Open Space / Contra Costa County and East Bay Regional Park District Liaison Committee]
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