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Walnut Creek

Walnut Creek is a typical, medium-sized suburban city on the western edge of Mount Diablo, about 17 miles east of in . After being part of a Spanish land grant comprising several ranchos, the first Midwestern settlers of European descent in this area planted walnut trees.
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  • Type: Town with 70,200 residents
  • Description: city in Contra Costa County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Walnut Creek, CA” and “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Postal codes: 94595-94598
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Broadway Plaza and Walnut Creek station.

Shopping center
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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.

Metro station
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is an elevated Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Walnut Creek, California, served by the Yellow Line. The station is located north of downtown Walnut Creek, adjacent to Interstate 680 and near the Ygnacio Valley Road and California Boulevard arterial roads.

School
is a public high school in Walnut Creek, , . It was founded in 1951 by the Acalanes Union High School District, and opened its doors in the fall of 1952 to its first graduating class.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saranap and Contra Costa Centre.

Village
is a residential census-designated place within central , . Lying at an elevation of 180 feet, it is bounded on the south and east by portions of Walnut Creek and on the north and west by .

Village
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , . sits at an elevation of 92 feet.

Village
is a census-designated place in , . sits at an elevation of 302 feet. The 2020 United States census reported 's population was 1,271.

Walnut Creek

Latitude
37.9021° or 37° 54′ 8″ north
Longitude
-122.0619° or 122° 3′ 43″ west
Population
70,200
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
US WAC and US WLU
Open location code
849VWW2Q+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150967736
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5406990
Wiki­data ID
Q493261
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Walnut Creek” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “والنوت كريك”
  • Basque: “Walnut Creek”
  • Belarusian: “Уолнат-Крык”
  • Bulgarian: “Уолнът Крийк”
  • Catalan: “Walnut Creek”
  • Cebuano: “Walnut Creek”
  • Chechen: “Волнат-Крик”
  • Chinese: “Walnut Creek”
  • Chinese: “核桃溪”
  • Chinese: “沃尔纳特克里克”
  • Croatian: “Walnut Creek, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Czech: “Walnut Creek”
  • Dagbani: “Walnut Creek”
  • Danish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Dutch: “Walnut Creek”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “والنوت كريك”
  • Esperanto: “Walnut Creek”
  • Finnish: “Walnut Creek”
  • French: “Walnut Creek”
  • Gan Chinese: “核桃溪”
  • German: “Walnut Creek”
  • Gilaki: “والنات کريک”
  • Greek: “Γουάλνουτ Κρικ”
  • Haitian: “Walnut Creek, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Hebrew: “ולנאט קריק”
  • Hungarian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Irish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Italian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Japanese: “ウォールナッツクリーク”
  • Japanese: “ウォールナット・クリーク”
  • Japanese: “ウォールナットクリーク”
  • Japanese: “ウォルナッツクリーク”
  • Japanese: “ウォルナット・クリーク”
  • Japanese: “ウォルナットクリーク”
  • Korean: “월넛크릭”
  • Ladin: “Walnut Creek”
  • Lithuanian: “Volnat Krikas”
  • Malagasy: “Walnut Creek”
  • Malayalam: “വാൽനട്ട് ക്രീക്ക്”
  • Mazanderani: “والنات کریک (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “والنات کریک”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Walnut Creek”
  • Newari: “वालनट क्रीक (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “वालनट क्रीक, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “वालनट क्रीक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Walnut Creek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walnut Creek”
  • Norwegian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Persian: “والنات کریک، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “والنات کریک”
  • Polish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Portuguese: “Walnut Creek”
  • Russian: “Уолнат-Крик”
  • Serbian: “Volnat Krik”
  • Serbian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Serbian: “Волнат Крик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Walnut Creek”
  • Slovak: “Walnut Creek”
  • Slovenian: “Walnut Creek”
  • South Azerbaijani: “والنات کریک، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Walnut Creek (California)”
  • Spanish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Swahili: “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Swahili: “Walnut Creek”
  • Swedish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Tagalog: “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Tagalog: “Walnut Creek”
  • Talysh: “Volnat Krik”
  • Tatar: “Волнат-Крик”
  • Turkish: “Walnut Creek, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Walnut Creek”
  • Ukrainian: “Волнат-Крік”
  • Urdu: “والنٹ کریک، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Walnut Creek”
  • Uzbek: “Wалнут Cреек”
  • Vietnamese: “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Vietnamese: “Walnut Creek”
  • Volapük: “Walnut Creek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Walnut Creek, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Walnut Creek”
  • “Walnut Creek”

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