Oakland Hills, Oakland, California

Coordinates: 37°50′18.22″N 122°12′1.95″W / 37.8383944°N 122.2005417°W

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37°50′18.22″N 122°12′1.95″W / 37.8383944°N 122.2005417°W / 37.8383944; -122.2005417

The Oakland Hills (in gold) lie between Oakland's flatlands and East Bay Regional Park District

Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California.^[1] The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.

Geography

The geologic feature

"Oakland Hills" is most commonly an informal name for that section of the Berkeley Hills range that extends along the eastern side of Oakland, California. In recent decades, it has become the more common popular term although it remains "officially" incorrect among geographers and gazetteers. Before the establishment of the University of California in Berkeley, the range was called the Contra Costa Hills.

The common usage often includes another officially unnamed ridge which runs in front (west) of the Berkeley/"Oakland" Hills, as well as the linear valley enclosed between the two ridges in the Montclair District along State Route 13. This other ridge, a shutter ridge created by the Hayward Fault, lends its informal name, "Rockridge", only to the district of Oakland at its northwest end, although it extends southeast to the junction of Highway 13 and I-580 in East Oakland and includes most of the small residential community of Piedmont, California. Plant communities are diverse, ranging from oak-grassland savanna and chaparral on sunny exposed slopes, to woods of oak, madrone, bay laurel, pine and redwoods in shady canyons.

Oakland Hills neighborhoods

The Oakland Hills neighborhoods comprise the highest elevations within the city's land area, following the alignment of the hills and the central section of the Hayward Fault Zone. The area includes all of Oakland lying east of State Route 13 and east of I-580 south of its junction with Route 13. The area includes Upper Rockridge, Oakmore, Montclair and Mountain View Cemetery. The Oakland Hills touch the eastern border of Piedmont, California and include a section of the Claremont neighborhood, the northern part of which lies within the city of Berkeley. The Oakland Hills also include the northern section of Lake Chabot Regional Park and borders Robert Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, Redwood Regional Park and Anthony Chabot Regional Park; all part of the East Bay Regional Park District.

Neighborhoods

Northeast Hills

Claremont (southern portion)
Forestland
Glen Highlands
Hiller Highlands
Joaquin Miller Park
Lake Temescal
Merriwood
Montclair
Montclair Business District
Mountain View Cemetery
Oakmore
Panoramic Hill
Piedmont Pines
Shepherd Canyon
Upper Rockridge

Southeast Hills

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Chabot Park
Crestmont
Grass Valley, Oakland, California
Sequoyah Heights
Sheffield Village
Skyline-Hillcrest Estates
Caballo Hills
Leona Heights
Laurel
Redwood Heights
Woodminster

Culture

Several popular cultural sites and events are located in the Oakland hills:

References

^ Oakland City website. Wildfire Prevention District. Working together to assist home and property owners prevent urban wildfires in our Oakland Hills
^ "Neighborhood Search Map". Oakland Museum of California. Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2011-07-29.

v t e Neighborhoods in Oakland, California
Downtown / Lake Merritt	Adams Point Chinatown City Center Civic Center Crocker Highlands Grand Lake Jack London District Jack London Square Lakeside Apartments District Old Oakland Trestle Glen Uptown Cleveland Heights
East Oakland	Dimond District Eastmont Elmhurst Fruitvale Havenscourt Jingletown Laurel Millsmont Maxwell Park Ridgemont San Antonio Seminary Sobrante Park
North Oakland	Bushrod Park Golden Gate Koreatown Longfellow Piedmont Avenue Rockridge Santa Fe Temescal
West Oakland	Acorn Cypress Village Dogtown Ghost Town Lower Bottoms Oakland Point
Oakland Hills and foothills	Claremont Glenview Grass Valley Joaquin Miller Park Panoramic Hill Redwood Heights Montclair Mountain View Cemetery Piedmont Pines Oakmore Sequoyah Heights

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