Elkhorn, California

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  Lodi Unified officials were scheduled to take a closer look Tuesday night at closing six small schools to help bridge a $10 million funding shortfall in 2009.

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• TRAFFIC: Crash blocking Elkhorn Road
  

  The California Highway Patrol Web site at 7:10 a.m. is reporting a car on its roof blocking Elkhorn Road at Walker Valley Road in Elkhorn.

• Elkhorn bus makes last stop
  

  The bus stops here for Elkhorn Elementary School. The final bus route to the fourth- through eighth-grade school for Gifted and Talented Education students was made Friday after a pay-to-ride system failed to ...

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City Description

Elkhorn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. The population of Elkhorn was 1,591 at the 2000 census. Elkhorn was named after the elk in the area that have since gone extinct. Because Elkhorn is not a city, not all residents call the place they live Elkhorn. Some residents refer to Elkhorn as Castroville on mailed documents because Elkhorn shares a zip code with Castroville. Other residents refer to Elkhorn as north Monterey County of which Elkhorn is a part. The Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve is a local point of interest. Elkhorn is located at 36°48′39″N 121°43′7″W / 36.81083, -121.71861 (36.810806, -121.718531). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.9 square miles (12.6 km²), of which, 4.9 square miles (12.6 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.41%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,591 people, 523 households, and 411 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 327.4 people per square mile (126.4/km²). There were 542 housing units at an average density of 111.5/sq mi (43.1/km²). Most residents live in detached single family

City Contained By:

• California
• Monterey County

Timezones:

• Pacific Time Zone

Size:

• 12.6909417406 km squared

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