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Welcome to El Centro ...The city of El Centro is located in Imperial County<1> and is the County Seat for Imperial County. While we don't have a date for the founding of El Centro, you might consider that their post office opened in 1905. The city was incorporated April 16, 1908. When the people of El Centro refer to themselves (known as a demonym), they frequently use El Centran<2> From the Census Estimates for 2019, El Centro has a population of 43,764 people<3> (see below for details). El Centro is near sea level<4>. Time Zone: El Centro lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from El Centro (for example, toward Somerton (AZ)), you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST). In addition, you will be moving from an area that observes daylight saving time to one that does not. Area codes for El Centro: (760) & (442)<5> The ZIP codes for El Centro: 92243-92244<6> Websites for El Centro ...Official Website: www.cityofelcentro.org/ Chamber of Commerce: www.elcentrochamber.com/ Population Details ...Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, El Centro had an population of 43,764 people. This is an increase of 2.74% since the 2010 Census (or an increase of 15.67% since the 2000 Census). At the time of the 2010 Census, El Centro had a population of 42,598 people (or 24.41% of the total population of Imperial County). This makes El Centro the county's most populous community. The population of El Centro represents 0.11% of the total population of California (which has 37,253,956 people), making it the state's 187th most populous community. With a 2010 count of 42,598 people, the population of El Centro increased 12.59% from the 2000 Census (which had a count of 37,835 people). More information can be found on the Census Page for El Centro. Communities Also Named El Centro ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named El Centro - they are located in Texas and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for El Centro. Communities near El Centro ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near El Centro.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around El Centro. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for El Centro. We have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around El Centro. Our list includes 17 papers. See our Newspapers Page for El Centro. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for El Centro ...Looking for more information about El Centro? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. In addition to the Tourism page for El Centro, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for El Centro. Adding El Centro to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of El Centro in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for El Centro was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<9> We also found El Centro mentioned on a train schedule titled Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929). For more details, see References and Mentions for El Centro. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for El Centro: www.cityofelcentro.org/ The official website for Imperial County: www.co.imperial.ca.us/ The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/ Footnotes ...
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