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Calexico, California
Calexico, California: border city in Imperial County adjacent to Mexicali, founded 1899, incorporated 1908; about 38,600 residents, 97.4% Hispanic; two land ports of entry and a State Auditor high-risk designation removed in 2025.
California City, California
California City, California: Mojave Desert city in Kern County founded by Nat Mendelsohn in 1958, planned for 400,000 residents; incorporated 1965, third-largest California city by land area with only about 13,000 people.
Camarillo, California
Camarillo, California: a Ventura County city incorporated in 1964, named for rancher Adolfo Camarillo of Rancho Calleguas; about 70,000 residents on 20 square miles midway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara on Highway 101.
Campbell, California
Campbell, California: a Santa Clara County city of 6.35 square miles founded by Benjamin Campbell, an orchard-shipping rail hub nicknamed the Orchard City, incorporated in 1952.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cannon Beach is a small resort city on the Pacific coast of Clatsop County, Oregon, 80 miles west of Portland, best known for the 235-foot Haystack Rock sea stack.
Carlsbad, California
Carlsbad, California: coastal city in northern San Diego County, 35 miles from San Diego, incorporated 1952, named after Karlsbad, Bohemia. Known for LEGOLAND, seven miles of beaches, surf and skate culture, and North America's largest desalination plant.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Carmel-by-the-Sea is a one-square-mile city in Monterey County, California, incorporated 1916, known for its artists' colony, no traffic lights or chain stores, and recently adopted street numbers; population 3,220, median home value about $2 million.
Carson, California
Carson, California: a South Bay Los Angeles County city incorporated February 20, 1968, named for George Henry Carson of the Dominguez family's Rancho San Pedro; 95,558 residents in 2020, motto "Future Unlimited."
Cerritos, California
Cerritos, California, formerly Dairy Valley (incorporated April 24, 1956; renamed January 10, 1967), is an 8.9-square-mile charter city in Los Angeles County with 49,578 residents in 2020, known for its master-planned transformation from dairy farms and its library and performing arts center.
Chico, California
Chico, California: a Butte County city in the northern Sacramento Valley founded by John Bidwell in 1860, incorporated 1872, home of Chico State and 3,670-acre Bidwell Park, population about 105,000.
Chino Hills, California
Chino Hills is a city in San Bernardino County, California, incorporated December 1, 1991, with about 78,000 residents, 45 square miles of planned suburbs, and Chino Hills State Park's 14,102 preserved acres.
Chino, California
Chino is a city in southwestern San Bernardino County, California, at the western edge of the Inland Empire, with about 97,000 residents (2025 estimate), a dairy-and-agriculture past, and a logistics-based economy.
Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista, California: second-largest city in San Diego County (275,487 in 2020), on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border. Incorporated 1911; once the world's largest lemon-growing center; transformed by Rohr Aircraft in World War II.
City of Industry, California
City of Industry, California: a charter city in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, incorporated 1957 for commerce. Also called Industry. Almost no residents (440 in 2017) but about 3,000 businesses, 68,000 jobs, and 92% industrial zoning.
Claremont, California
Claremont, California: Los Angeles County city 30 miles east of Los Angeles, incorporated October 3, 1907, known as the City of Trees and home to the seven-institution Claremont Colleges consortium.
Clovis, California
Clovis, California, a city of about 129,000 in Fresno County northeast of Fresno, founded 1891 as a railroad stop named for Clovis M. Cole, incorporated 1912, known for Old Town, the Clovis Rodeo, and Clovis Unified schools.
Coachella, California
Coachella, California: city in Riverside County at the eastern Coachella Valley, incorporated 1946, name from a printer's error; agricultural, 97% Latino, recently fighting a proposed 450-acre data center campus.
Colma, California
Colma, California, incorporated in 1924 as Lawndale, is a small San Mateo County town where about 1.6 million dead vastly outnumber its roughly 1,500 living residents.
Compton, California
Compton, California, is a city in Los Angeles County known as the Hub City, settled in 1867 and incorporated in 1888, with a 2020 population of 95,740.
Concord, California
Concord, California: largest city in Contra Costa County (125,410 in 2020), founded as Todos Santos in 1869, incorporated 1905, city 1948; BART terminus until 1995; site of the 1944 Port Chicago disaster and the 2,422-acre former Naval Weapons Station redevelopment planned for 12,000 homes.
Coos Bay, Oregon
Coos Bay, Oregon (formerly Marshfield) is the largest city on the Oregon coast, population 15,985 in 2020, a timber and shipping port town on Oregon's largest bay, now pursuing a container terminal.
Corona, California
Corona, California: city in Riverside County incorporated July 13, 1896, named for its circular Grand Boulevard; founded 1886 as South Riverside, once the Lemon Capital of the World, now about 160,000 residents.
Coronado, California
Coronado, California (The Crown City) is a seaside city in San Diego County on a peninsula across from downtown San Diego, incorporated 1890, home to the 1888 Hotel del Coronado, Naval Air Station North Island, and about 20,000 residents.
Corvallis, Oregon
Corvallis, Oregon: Benton County seat on the Willamette River, home of Oregon State University. Founded as Marysville by Joseph Avery (1845), briefly territorial capital in 1855, incorporated 1857; population about 60,000.
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa, California, an Orange County city incorporated June 29, 1953, about a mile from the Pacific coast. Known as the City of the Arts, home to South Coast Plaza, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and action sports headquarters; 2020 population 111,918.
Crescent City, California
Crescent City, California: only incorporated city of Del Norte County, county seat since 1857, population about 6,000. Known as a tsunami magnet due to the Mendocino Fracture Zone; devastated by the 1964 Alaska tsunami.
Culver City, California
Culver City, California: independent Westside Los Angeles County city incorporated 1917, founded by Harry H. Culver, nicknamed the Heart of Screenland; home to Sony Pictures Studios and The Culver Studios, population 40,779 (2020).
Cupertino, California
Cupertino, California: Santa Clara County city incorporated October 10, 1955 as its 13th city (vote 231-185), population about 58,000-60,000, home of Apple's headquarters, formerly an orchard town in the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Cypress, California
Cypress, California: charter city in northwestern Orange County, incorporated July 24, 1956 as Dairy City, renamed 1957; dairy-farming origin, 50,151 residents (2020), Cypress College, median home value $913,900.
Daly City, California
Daly City, California: city in northern San Mateo County on San Francisco's southern border, incorporated March 22, 1911, named for rancher John Donald Daly; about 104,901 residents (2020), dense suburb known as the Gateway to the Peninsula.