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Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA

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Modesto (Spanish for "modest"), officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California. The Modesto Census County Division, which includes the cities of Ceres and Riverbank, has a population of 312,842 as of 2010.

Modesto is located in the Central Valley, 90 miles (140 km) north of Fresno, 40 miles (64 km) north of Merced, California, 92 miles (148 km) east of San Francisco, 68 miles (109 km) south of the state capital of Sacramento, 66 miles (106 km) west of Yosemite National Park, and 24 miles (39 km) south of Stockton. Modesto has been honored as a Tree City USA numerous times. It is surrounded by rich farmland; Stanislaus County ranks sixth among California counties in farm production. Led by milk, almonds, chickens, walnuts, and corn silage, the county grossed nearly $3.1 billion in agricultural production in 2011.

Modesto was immortalized in the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti. The award-winning film captured the spirit of cruising and friendship on 10th and 11th Streets in 1962 and led to the revival of 1950s nostalgia that included the TV show Happy Days and the other spin-offs. Ron Howard, Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss starred in the film. The soundtrack was a huge success. Director George Lucas is a native of Modesto, graduating from Downey High School in 1962.

Modesto is one of the birthplaces of modern rock and roll as the roots of Rockabilly music began in 1938 with the Maddox Brothers and Rose. The slap bass technique created by Fred Maddox became the percussive backbeat to "hillbilly boogie" that would become the foundation of Rock and Roll. The Maddox Brothers music became famous from the early broadcasts by pioneering radio station KTRB throughout the 1940s. Fred Maddox's bass now belongs to the Experience Project Museum in Seattle Washington for the significance in music history.

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index for 2011, which interviews 1,000 participants daily and asks individuals to assess their jobs, finances, physical health, emotional state of mind and communities, ranked Modesto 126 out of the 190 cities surveyed. In December 2009, Forbes ranked Modesto 48th out of 100 among "Best Bang-for-the-Buck Cities". In this ranking, Modesto ranked 8th in housing affordability and travel time but also ranked 86th in job forecast growth and 99th in foreclosures.

History:

Modesto, originally a stop on the railroad connecting Sacramento to Los Angeles, was founded in 1870 and was to be named for financier William C. Ralston, but he was too modest and asked them to find another name for the town. In honor of his modesty, the town was named Modesto.

The city was incorporated in 1884 with a population of over 1000 people. With fields of grain, a nearby river (grain barges during the flood season), and railroad traffic, the town grew. Later, dams were installed in the foothills, irrigation water came, and irrigated fields of vegetables and fruit or nut trees prospered. By 1900, its population was over 4,500. During World War II, the area provided canned goods, powdered milk, and eggs for the US armed forces and allied forces. For the next few decades, Modesto's population grew at about two percent per year to over 100,000 in 1980, and over 200,000 in 2001.

The official city slogan is "Water Wealth Contentment Health," which is emblazoned on the downtown Modesto Arch, featured in local photographs and postcards. A contest was run in 1911 to determine the slogan. The original winning slogan was: "Nobody's got Modesto's goat". The second place entry was the final winner. The motto is sometimes spoofed as "The land gets the water, the bankers get the wealth, the cows get contentment, and the farmers get the health."

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Pine, Vivian Lorene	27 Feb 1937	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I24548
2	Hobbs, Dwayne	2 Jan 1937	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I35808
3	Elhardt, Merlin	13 Mrz 1931	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I94946
4	Blaylock, Noma	30 Aug 1913	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I62485

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Trautman, Albert T.	19 Nov 1983	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I5225
2	Talcott, Clara Hazel	12 Jan 1984	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I8970
3	Reifschneider, Tillie L.	23 Mrz 1991	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I129130
4	Reichert, Edward	17 Jan 1981	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I5684
5	Peter, Rachel	23 Jul 1972	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I5224
6	Perman, Clara M.	21 Dez 1987	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I157169
7	Miller, Christina	26 Dez 1984	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I5685
8	Hughes, Raymond	1 Jan 1987	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I8969
9	Huggins, Pearl Marie	18 Okt 2003	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I94385
10	Gruebele, Rose Caroline	16 Jul 1990	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I181832
11	Grenz, Edna	7 Sep 1981	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I118618
12	Gaub, Catharina	Datum unbekannt	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I100352
13	Foshee, Rosa Lanell	17 Mrz 2000	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I136296
14	Coleman, Norton Dyer	10 Jan 2000	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I24214
15	Churchill, Luther Victor	5 Apr 1984	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I129105
16	Berg, Elaine Orrine	31 Mai 1988	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I92230
17	Axt, Charles	10 Jan 1970	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I127346
18	Ashton, Martha Jane	7 Okt 2001	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I25675
19	Archibald, Hedley C.	12 Jan 2006	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I25674

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Miller, Christina	29 Dez 1984	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	I5685

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Hohnstein / Rauscher	10 Feb 1944	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	F29358
2	Hobbs / Ulmer	7 Mai 1960	Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA	F11954