Your nearest city is…

[greeneyedchick]

Orlando

 

[tvguy]

Depends on the definition of "city". Most people in the United States live in incorporated cities.

63% according to Google live in incorporated cities. I am in the 37% that don't. More people live in the unincorporated area of Sacramento County than in any of the six individual cities in the county. 610,000 live in the unincorporated area, the biggest incorporated city is Sacramento with 524,000. Next biggest city if Elk Grove with 176,000. However Sacramento County provides some services to some of the incorporated cities. All the Courts, Airports and Tax Collection are done by the County. They also provide law enforcement to one city.

 

[bcla]

63% according to Google live in incorporated cities. I am in the 37% that don't. More people live in the unincorporated area of Sacramento County than in any of the six individual cities in the county. 610,000 live in the unincorporated area, the biggest incorporated city is Sacramento with 524,000. Next biggest city if Elk Grove with 176,000. However Sacramento County provides some services to some of the incorporated cities. All the Courts, Airports and Tax Collection are done by the County. They also provide law enforcement to one city.

I understand that Rancho Cordova contracts with the Sac Sheriff for police services, although where it's in distinct "Rancho Cordova Police" uniforms and vehicles. Don't really get it, but I've heard of the same in American Canyon (Napa Sheriff) and Dublin (Alameda Sheriff). Contract cities in San Mateo or LA County just deal with it.

 

[sasywtch]

Citrus Heights

Since I'm in CH, I will say Carmichael

 

[bcla]

Since I'm in CH, I will say Carmichael

Not a city though. But Citrus Heights is.

 

[bcla]

Agree, not sure how to answer... is asking the next town over, or closest metropolis or...?


*edit*
I'm just going to say Sacramento.

I was trying to parse it. Legally defined as a city? A place that most people would recognize (even if not technically a city)? The big city that most people would recognize? And if you're in that city, does being there count as "closest"?

 

[tvguy]

I understand that Rancho Cordova contracts with the Sac Sheriff for police services, although where it's in distinct "Rancho Cordova Police" uniforms and vehicles. Don't really get it, but I've heard of the same in American Canyon (Napa Sheriff) and Dublin (Alameda Sheriff). Contract cities in San Mateo or LA County just deal with it.

Elk Grove and Citrus Heights did the same thing for a time after becoming cities while they organized and found the money to pay for their own departments. Yes, Rancho Cordova Police do have their own uniforms and Police cars, but you do see Deputies in Sheriff's uniforms and Sheriff's patrol cars in Rancho Cordova too. Rancho Cordova does not have it's own specialized officers for handling Homicides, Crime Scene Processing, etc, those are all Sheriff's Deputies. Rancho Cordova has their own Police Chief, so there is more local control of law enforcement priorities than before they were a city, but they just aren't a big enough a city to support a full police department.
It is interesting as Elk Grove, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova incorporated and formed their own City Councils and Police Departments........Fire and EMS services went the other direction. The local Fire Departments are all gone. Arden, Arcade, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Fair Oaks, North Highlands, Florin, Sloughhouse, Rancho Murieta, Rio Linda and Elverta Fire Departments all merged into what is now Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department. And I may have left out a few that merged into that department.

 

[bcla]

Elk Grove and Citrus Heights did the same thing for a time after becoming cities while they organized and found the money to pay for their own departments. Yes, Rancho Cordova Police do have their own uniforms and Police cars, but you do see Deputies in Sheriff's uniforms and Sheriff's patrol cars in Rancho Cordova too. Rancho Cordova does not have it's own specialized officers for handling Homicides, Crime Scene Processing, etc, those are all Sheriff's Deputies. Rancho Cordova has their own Police Chief, so there is more local control of law enforcement priorities than before they were a city, but they just aren't a big enough a city to support a full police department.
It is interesting as Elk Grove, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova incorporated and formed their own City Councils and Police Departments........Fire and EMS services went the other direction. The local Fire Departments are all gone. Arden, Arcade, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova, Fair Oaks, North Highlands, Florin, Sloughhouse, Rancho Murieta, Rio Linda and Elverta Fire Departments all merged into what is now Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department. And I may have left out a few that merged into that department.

I've seen it before, and the Sacramento Sheriff provides a captain as the Rancho Cordova PD Chief. That's the same deal as other contact cities.

https://www.sacsheriff.com/pages/leadership_command.php​

​

Matthew Tamayo​

Captain​

Rancho Cordova PD​

 

[mjkacmom]

Newark NJ 5 miles, NYC 10.

 

[hertamaniac]

Orlando

 

[Shellsbutt]

Since I'm in CH, I will say Carmichael

Same general area as you two(Orangevale)- I'm close to Roseville

 

[JLTraveling]

In the heart of New Orleans. Soon to be in the heart of Orlando.

 

[prairie_girl]

Yeah, this one feels phishy..

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Sandusky, Ohio (home of Cedar Point). Major city would be Cleveland about an hour east.

 

[_19disnA]

Yeah, this one feels phishy..

Yup, thought the same thing. A roundabout way of asking where you live.................LOL.

 

[bcwife76]

Vancouver

Same

Assuming you mean BC and not WA state

 

[E&Cmom]

Same

Assuming you mean BC and not WA state

Yes.

 

[sasywtch]

Not a city though. But Citrus Heights is.

I'll change it; Roseville. Per the pp remarks about the police in the area; I'm in an area where you drive 2 blocks and within those 2 blocks, I could have Citrus Heights PD, Sacramento County Deputies, Roseville PD and CHP LOL You don't speed around here.

 

[rndmr2]

Rochester, NY

 

[ncc1701]

By my definition of a City, Philadelphia,.PA. Technically there may be 1 or more closer.