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Martinez

Martinez is in the outer East Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area in . Martinez has easy access to nature, so it's no wonder the famed naturalist John Muir decided to settle here.
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  • Type: Town with 38,300 residents
  • Description: city in and seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Martinez, CA” and “Martinez, California”
  • Postal code: 94553
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Martinez station and Forester.

Railway station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an Amtrak passenger train station in Martinez, California, United States. Located at the west end of downtown Martinez, the station has one side platform and one island platform, which serve three of the four tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision.

Disaster remains
Photo: Rob Hodgkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The was a schooner vessel constructed in in November 1900. The construction was overseen by Captain Otto Daeweritz who served as the only captain of the vessel during the 's 75 year history.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is located in the , in Martinez, . It preserves the 14-room Italianate Victorian mansion where the naturalist and writer John Muir lived, as well as a nearby 325-acre tract of native oak woodlands and grasslands historically owned by the Muir family.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mountain View and Vine Hill.

Village
is a census designated place in , , . The population was 2,622 at the 2020 census.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 4,323 at the 2020 census. It is located 2.25 miles east of downtown Martinez. is situated 2½ miles east of Martinez.

Hamlet
is a former unincorporated community, now annexed to the city of Martinez, located in , East Bay region, . It became known as following the 1905 arrival of a smelting works, operated by the Mountain Copper Company.

Martinez

Latitude
38.0139° or 38° 0′ 50″ north
Longitude
-122.1339° or 122° 8′ 2″ west
Population
38,300
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US MRZ
Open location code
84CV2V78+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150972891
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5370868
Wiki­data ID
Q506439
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Martinez” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مارتينز”
  • Azerbaijani: “Martines”
  • Basque: “Martinez”
  • Belarusian: “Марцінес”
  • Breton: “Martinez”
  • Bulgarian: “Мартинес”
  • Catalan: “Martinez”
  • Cebuano: “Martinez”
  • Chechen: “Мартинес”
  • Chinese: “Martinez”
  • Chinese: “馬丁內斯”
  • Chinese: “馬丁尼茲”
  • Chinese: “马丁内斯”
  • Croatian: “Martinez”
  • Czech: “Martinez”
  • Dagbani: “Martinez”
  • Danish: “Martinez”
  • Dutch: “Martinez”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارتينز”
  • Esperanto: “Martinez”
  • Finnish: “Martinez”
  • French: “Martinez”
  • Gan Chinese: “馬丁內斯”
  • German: “Martinez”
  • Gilaki: “مارتینز”
  • Haitian: “Martinez, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Martinez”
  • Hebrew: “מרטינז”
  • Hungarian: “Martinez”
  • Irish: “Martinez”
  • Italian: “Martinez”
  • Japanese: “マーティネズ”
  • Korean: “마티네즈”
  • Ladin: “Martinez”
  • Luxembourgish: “Martinez”
  • Macedonian: “Мартинез”
  • Malagasy: “Martinez, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Martinez”
  • Mazanderani: “مارتینز (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “مارتینز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Martinez”
  • Newari: “मार्टिनेज (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “मार्टिनेज, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “मार्टिनेज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Martinez”
  • Norwegian: “Martinez”
  • Pampanga: “Martinez, California”
  • Pampanga: “Martinez”
  • Persian: “مارتینز، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “مارتینز”
  • Polish: “Martinez”
  • Portuguese: “Martinez”
  • Russian: “Мартинес”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Martinez”
  • Serbian: “Martines”
  • Serbian: “Martinez”
  • Serbian: “Мартинез”
  • Serbian: “Мартинес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Martinez, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Martinez”
  • Silesian: “Martinez”
  • Slovak: “Martinez”
  • Slovenian: “Martinez”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مارتینز، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Martínez (California)”
  • Spanish: “Martinez”
  • Spanish: “Martínez”
  • Swahili: “Martinez, California”
  • Swahili: “Martinez”
  • Swedish: “Martinez, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Martinez”
  • Tagalog: “Martinez, California”
  • Tagalog: “Martinez”
  • Talysh: “Martines (Kalifornijə)”
  • Talysh: “Martines”
  • Tatar: “Мартинес”
  • Turkish: “Martinez, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Martinez”
  • Ukrainian: “Мартінес”
  • Urdu: “مارٹنیز، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Martinez”
  • Uzbek: “Мартинез”
  • Vietnamese: “Martinez, Ca Li”
  • Vietnamese: “Martinez, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Martinez”
  • Volapük: “Martinez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Martinez, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Martinez”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Martinez”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.