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7 unusual facts about Rancho Cordova


Brian C. Griffin

In January 2004, Griffin was appointed the President and member of the Board for Clean Energy Systems, a private Rancho Cordova, California based energy technology innovations firm.

Brian C. Griffin (born 1953) is an American businessman from the Oklahoma who currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors for Clean Energy Systems, a private Rancho Cordova, California based energy technology innovations firm.

Dek Bake

Bake played high school football at Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, California.

EdFund

EdFund is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California with regional offices located throughout the United States.

Peter Joseph Shields

He was born April 4, 1862, at the Shields Ranch, which was located near Rancho Cordova, California on the American River, to John Shields who emigrated in 1850 from Donegal, Ireland and Elizabeth Shields, née Bowe, who emigrated from Waterford, Ireland in 1855.

Rancho Cordova, California

Tyler Coppin - Well-known Australian/American actor, writer, and dialect coach.

Billy Marshall Stoneking - Well-known Australian/American poet, filmmaker, writer, script editor and film teacher/mentor.


Aerojet

Aerojet was an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California, with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange and Gainesville in Virginia, and Camden, Arkansas.

Bob Oliver

He has also worked at two baseball schools in California's Sacramento County: operating his own Baseball Academy in Sacramento, as well as working as a hitting instructor at Dusty Baker's Baseball Camp in Rancho Cordova.

Don Nottoli

The cities included in the Fifth district include: Elk Grove, Galt, Isleton and Rancho Cordova.

Eppie's Great Race

Also known as "The Great Race", "The World's Oldest Triathlon" and the "No-Swim Triathlon", it features a 5.82-mile run, 12.5-mile bike and 6.35-mile paddle held along the scenic American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova and Sacramento, California.

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Rancho Rio de los Americanos

William Alexander Leidesdorff, U.S. Vice Consul at the Port of San Francisco, hired a farm manager and financed construction of four adobe dwellings on the site at today's River Bend Park, near Bradshaw Road and Folsom Blvd, in the city of Rancho Cordova.

Thoratec

Thoratec is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, and has manufacturing facilities in Burlington, Massachusetts;Rancho Cordova, California; Edison, New Jersey; and Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.


see also

Mather, California

Sacramento Mather Airport, an airport in Rancho Cordova with the Mather post office