Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Newark, CA

Newark incorporated on September 22, 1955, specifically to avoid being amalgamated into the newly forming city of Fremont.

Newark is an enclave city, completely surrounded on all sides by the city of Fremont in Alameda County.

Newark was laid out in 1878 after the Pacific Land Investment Company bought Washington Township land and subdivided it, and the town was named after Newark Castle in Port Glasgow, Scotland.

Newark began as a railroad town in the 1850s, and the Carter Brothers company built railroad cars and cable cars for San Francisco here.

Newark pulled out of the plan to form Fremont when it learned it had been designated as Fremont's industrial district, choosing to incorporate on its own instead in 1955.

Newark is the third-largest city in the United States named Newark, after Newark, New Jersey, and Newark, Ohio.

Newark had a population of 47,529 at the 2020 census, with about 15,300 households averaging 3.07 people each, about 69 percent of homes owner-occupied, and a median owner-occupied home value of about $1.14 million.

Newark sits near the southern end of San Francisco Bay, and State Route 84 runs through the city before crossing the bay to Menlo Park as the Dumbarton Bridge.

Parts of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge lie in Newark; the 30,000-acre refuge was established in 1974 as the first urban national wildlife refuge in the United States and hosts more than 280 species of birds on the Pacific Flyway.

Cargill Salt, formerly Leslie Salt, operates a large facility in Newark refining solar salt harvested from evaporation ponds along San Francisco Bay.