San Pablo (Spanish for “St. Paul”) is an enclave city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city of Richmond surrounds approximately the amassed city. The population was 29,139 at the 2010 census. The current Mayor is Abel Pineda. Currently, the City Council consists of Abel Pineda, Patricia Ponce, Arturo Cruz, Elizabeth Pabon-Alvarado, and Rita Xavier. Ponce is the Vice Mayor, and Cruz, Pabon-Alvarado, and Xavier are Council Members. Dorothy Gantt is the city Clerk. Viviana Toledo is the city Treasurer.

The Place in which today’s San Pablo is situated was originally occupied by the Cuchiyun band of the Ohlone native people. The Place was claimed for the king of Spain in the late 18th century and was approved for grazing purposes to the Mission Dolores located in today’s San Francisco. Upon Mexico’s independence from Spain, church properties were secularized and in 1823, the Place became allowance of a large take over to an ex-soldier stationed at the San Francisco Presidio, Francisco María Castro. The comply was total the publicize Rancho San Pablo, thus originating the make known for today’s city as without difficulty as for one of the East Bay’s oldest principal roads, today’s San Pablo Avenue (known during the Spanish colonial become old as El Camino Real de la Contra Costa).

A historic reproduction of the city’s Mexican period is designated as a California State Landmark (No.512): the Alvarado Adobe, originally constructed in 1842 by one of Francisco Castro’s sons, Jesús María Castro, for his mother, Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro. Upon Gabriéla’s death in 1851, it was family by her daughter, Martina Castro de Alvarado, wife of Juan Bautista Alvarado, who was Governor of California from 1836 to 1842. The Alvarado Adobe was demolished in the mid-20th century to make way for a motel. A reproduction was built far ahead in the century which is located in the San Pablo Civic Center upon the northwest corner of San Pablo Avenue and Church Lane. A single beam from the original structure is incorporated into the roof of the replacement structure, at the rear of the adobe facing the interior courtyard.

The first state office was customary in 1854. The city incorporated in 1948.