Talk:List of cities in California

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What are the criteria for being on this list? We already have all incorporated places listed on each county page. -- Zoe

It's Angel's Camp, not Angels Camp. -- Zoe

Also, San Pedro is part of Los Angeles, it isn't a city on its own. And there is no such city as Yosemite. -- ~~

There is no apostrophe in Angels Camp -- see their web site at [[1]]. Yosemite was listed as a city in my atlas and at [[2]], but after some checking, it seems to have been corrected in a later edition of the atlas. And you're right that San Pedro was annexed by Los Angeles in 1907. Any more mistakes? GUllman

Why have you listed both "South San Francisco" and "S. San Francisco"?? Moncrief, 10 Mar 2004

[edit] Revamped and New Pages

The page is revamped because it was intended for incorporated cities only like other state's cities list, however, the previous list has been moved to List of cities, places, and neighborhoods in California to best fit the content of the article. --Moreau36; 0326 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Bridgeport, Hydesville, San Andreas, and San Pedro are still on this list, but they are not incorporated cities. There are 478 incorporated cities in California. I intend to verify these four unincorporated places are represented in the list of places page, and then delete them from here.

--GraemeMcRae 04:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I added the names of the counties and dates of incorporation for each city

--GraemeMcRae 06:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cities and towns?

192.193.221.143 (talk • contribs) did a recent edit to this page marking some communities as "town". I thought that in California there were no distinctions between sizes and types of cities like there are in many Northeastern US states. ^BlankVerse 15:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I did the editing. There is indeed no essential distinction between incorporated cities and incorporated towns. It’s just those "towns" call themselves such and reflect this in their names as "Town of XYZ" instead of "City of XYZ".

--WeiGreatness 3:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Since there is no real distinction between the two, then the information is basically useless and IMHO does not belong in the Wikipedia. It would make more sense to show which cities are General law cities and which are charter cities according to State of California law (and use a separate column instead of the asterisk). ^BlankVerse 15:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)