Shell Ridge
Shell Ridge is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States. Shell Ridge sits at an elevation of 295 feet. The 2020 United States census reported Shell Ridge's population was 1,014.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Ridge with an elevation of 797 feet
- Description: census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California
- Also known as: “Shell Ridge, CA” and “Shell Ridge, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Northgate High School and Ruth Bancroft Garden.
Northgate High School
School
Northgate High School is a public high school located in the suburban Northgate neighborhood of Walnut Creek, California, United States. The most recent of five high schools in the Mount Diablo Unified School District, the school was built in 1974, and is home to approximately 1,500 students from Walnut Creek and Concord, California, grades 9–12.
Ruth Bancroft Garden
Garden
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ruth Bancroft Garden is a 3.5-acre public dry garden established by Ruth Bancroft. It contains more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to California, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. Ruth Bancroft Garden is situated 2 miles northwest of Shell Ridge.
Broadway Plaza
Shopping center
Photo: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Broadway Plaza is an outdoor shopping mall located in downtown Walnut Creek. The shopping center opened on October 11, 1951 and is owned and operated by Macerich. Broadway Plaza is situated 2½ miles west of Shell Ridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Gate and Walnut Creek.
North Gate
Village
North Gate is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California, United States. North Gate sits at an elevation of 253 feet. The 2020 United States census reported North Gate's population was 667.
Walnut Creek
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walnut Creek is a typical, medium-sized suburban city on the western edge of Mount Diablo, about 17 miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County. After being part of a Spanish land grant comprising several ranchos, the first Midwestern settlers of European descent in this area planted walnut trees.
Castle Hill
Village
Castle Hill is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California. Castle Hill sits at an elevation of 302 feet. The 2020 United States census reported Castle Hill's population was 1,271. Castle Hill is situated 2½ miles southwest of Shell Ridge.
Shell Ridge
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and landform
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Shell Ridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Shell Ridge”
- Chechen: “Шелл-Ридж”
- Chinese: “謝爾嶺”
- Croatian: “Shell Ridge”
- French: “Shell Ridge”
- German: “Shell Ridge”
- Gilaki: “شل ريج”
- Hungarian: “Shell Ridge”
- Irish: “Shell Ridge”
- Italian: “Shell Ridge”
- Ladin: “Shell Ridge”
- Malagasy: “Shell Ridge, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Shell Ridge”
- Persian: “شل ریج، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شل ریج”
- Polish: “Shell Ridge”
- Serbian: “Шел Риџ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shell Ridge, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shell Ridge, Kalifornija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shell Ridge”
- South Azerbaijani: “شل ریج، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Shell Ridge”
- Tatar: “Шелл-Ридж”
- Turkish: “Shell Ridge”
- Ukrainian: “Шелл-Ридж”
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