History of Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: Centerville, Irvington, Mission San Jose, Niles, and Warm Springs. The area now comprising Fremont and the adjoining cities of Newark, California|Newark (now an enclave within Fremont) and Union City, California|Union City was formerly known as Alameda County Former townships|Washington Township. Fremont is located in the southeast area of the San Francisco Bay Area in Alameda County, California|Alameda County. The city is named after John Charles Fremont, "the Great Pathfinder."
Home to 210,158 people as of a 2005 estimate, Fremont is the fourth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Due in large measure to immigration by refugees fleeing the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Afghan Civil War, and small amounts during the Taliban government during the late 1980s and 1990s, Fremont had the largest Afghanistan|Afghan population in the United States in 2001. The diverse city demographic includes many Asian ethnic groups, including Indians, Chinese, Taiwanese, and other Asian groups, concentrated most heavily in the Mission San Jose District.
Fremont is the sister city to Elizabeth, South Australia and Fukaya, Saitama in Japan.
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