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Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about 16 miles (26 kilometers) east of the city of Oakland.
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Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area , about 16 miles (26 km) east of the city of Oakland . About 70,127 people live here.
With more than 165 years of history as a community, Walnut Creek has much to celebrate about its past and much to remember as we set a path for the future. First Inhabitants. Native Americans were the first people to live along the creeks and streams in what today is Contra Costa.
William Slusher was the first American settler to build a home in what has become downtown Walnut Creek. In 1849, William Slusher built a cabin on the west bank of a creek known as Arroyo de las Nueces (Stream of the Walnuts), becoming the first American settler to build a home in the downtown area.
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