The Roseville Index

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    Fact: The city of Roseville incorporated on April 10, 1909, a key railroad center in the West in the wake of the Gold Rush era.
    Fact:  Last year, according to Money Magazine, Roseville, at 24.5, had the lowest average body mass index of any city in the country, making it the skinniest city in America (San Francisco came in second with 24.8.) Roseville was also ranked 11th in job growth, with a 37.4 percent increase from 2000 to 2005.
    Fact: In 2006, Roseville became the first city in the nation to receive the highest flood insurance rating (“Class 1” status) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security. With that notable classification, homeowners can save about 45 percent on premium costs for flood insurance.
    Fact: The Roseville Telephone Museum — a 4,500-square-foot, four-gallery exhibit present-ed by SureWest — showcases one of the finest collections of antique telephones and memorabilia in the country. The nonprofit museum, which opened in 1994, is downtown on Vernon Street and has a display of some of the original phones designed by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s. Try making a call on the magneto switchboard, which was used by Roseville Telephone in 1914.
    Fact: In 1964, Roseville celebrated its centennial mark (100 years after the rails of the Central Pacific intersected with California Central, when Roseville was listed on railroad maps as a place called “Junction”). That same year, Roseville received one of Look magazine’s esteemed “All-America City” awards.
    Fact:  The Sacramento Capitals, a team in the World Team Tennis League for the past 20 years, now plays its home games at the Westfield Galleria at Roseville. This year, the Capitals’ marquee player was heavily Googled Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova.
    Fact: On April 28, 1973, 18 boxcars loaded with bombs exploded for unknown reasons at Roseville’s Southern Pacific Railroad yard. The disaster injured about 350 people with flying glass and caused millions of dollars in damage, but no one was killed. More than 6,000 bombs detonated on the trains, destroying 169 freight cars and causing heavy damage to 5,500 buildings as much as 6,800 feet away. The trains were headed to the Naval Weapons Station in Concord to be shipped to Southeast Asia. Most of the evidence was destroyed, so the exact cause of the explosion remains a mystery. In the late 1990s, more remnants believed to be from the explosion were found during development in the area. They were safely contained and destroyed.

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