Agoura Hills, California Agoura Hills, California City of Agoura Hills View of Agoura Hills looking from southern edge of the Historic Quarter in December 2006.
View of Agoura Hills looking from southern edge of the Historic Quarter in December 2006.
Location of Agoura Hills in California Location of Agoura Hills in California Agoura Hills, California is positioned in the US Agoura Hills, California - Agoura Hills, California Agoura Hills is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California.
It is in the easterly Conejo Valley between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains.
It is about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and less than 10 miles (16 km) west of the Los Angeles City limits (Woodland Hills).
Agoura Hills and unincorporated Agoura sit next to Calabasas, Oak Park, and Westlake Village.
The region was first settled by the Chumash Native Americans around 10,000 years ago. As the Alta California (Upper California) coast was settled by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the late 18th century, the El Camino Real (the Royal Road or King's Highway), a road from Loreto, Baja California, Mexico to Sonoma, California, and connecting the Spanish missions in California, was established through the heart of what would later be known as Agoura Hills.
(The "Reyes Adobe" ranch command posts sits today in central Agoura Hills, where it is part of the Reyes Adobe Museum assembled around 2004 and owned by the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department.) By 1900, Agoura Hills was being used as a prominent stage stop for travelers along the Camino Real because of its natural spring at the foothills of Ladyface Mountain, one of Agoura Hills' defining geographic features.
Agoura Hills began to expanded in the late 1960s after the Ventura Freeway section of U.S.
In 1978, inhabitants of the Agoura Hills region banded together to lobby Sacramento to widen the Kanan Bridge.
In 1982, the inhabitants of the City of Agoura Hills voted in favor of cityhood by a 68% majority.
Agoura Hills became the 83rd City in Los Angeles County.
Map showing Agoura Hills Districts Main article: Neighborhoods of Agoura Hills, California According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.2 square miles (21 km2).
Agoura Hills has a mountain called Ballard Mountain titled after pioneer settler and freed slave John Ballard.
Panorama of Agoura Hills and Westlake Village with Ballard Mountain prominent as the leftmost peak in the image.
Agoura Hills is called the "Gateway to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area". The town/city is unofficially divided into a number of varied districts centered on the undivided Downtown region of the city.
The most notable of these districts include Morrison Ranch, Downtown, Forest Cove, South End, Malibu Junction, East Agoura, and Old Agoura.
Natural areas of Agoura Hills are part of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion and are veiled by hundreds of small-town plant species, some of which are very rare, and the rest of which have turn into prominent ornamentals.
The range is host to an immense range of wildlife, from mountain lions to the endangered Southern California Distinct Population Segment of steelhead. The mountain lion populace inside the Santa Monica Mountains (which includes the Simi Hills & Santa Susana Pass) is severely depleted with only seven known living adult individuals.
The major cause of the diminish is due to a combination of traffic related mortality (three from the region were killed inside a matter of months,) anti-coagulants ingested from human poisoned prey (two individuals inside the Simi Hills) and attacks by other, more dominant mountain lions (an elder male, known as P1, killed both his son and his mate, this is thought to be due to a lack of space available.) Snakes are common but only occasionally seen- the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (the only venomous species), Mountain Kingsnake, California Kingsnake, Gopher snake, and Garter snake.
According to the article, the snails have period "from the first confirmed sample in Medea Creek in Agoura Hills to nearly 30 other stream sites in four years." Agoura Hills is known regionally for its live music scene and originality in the nu metal scene, a fame that has given rise to such acts as Linkin Park, Foxygen, Dub Thompson, Skye Aspen, Incubus, Hoobastank, and Fort Minor.
This music scene was born amid the coming of age of the kids of the first wave of migration into Agoura Hills, those that settled in the 1960s.
Western Agoura Hills from the hills north of Morrison Ranch Although the scene lives on, pushed forward by various Battle of the Bands competitions and garage concerts, the lack of a third primary wave of migration to Agoura Hills (construction having been mostly maxed out in the second migration) makes a primary renaissance seem doubtful as of early 2007.
As a result of this decline, it has turn into equally common to hear alt-rock blaring from stereos in Agoura as to hear reggaeton, a fact evidenced by airways broadcast Latino 96.3's advertising campaign and runaway popularity in Agoura Hills.
Agoura Hills is home to The Canyon Club, a highly regarded concert venue that hosts nationwide and county-wide touring acts such as Peter Frampton, Smash Mouth, Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper, REO Speedwagon, X, Steel Pulse, The New Cars, Asia, Boyz II Men, Alan Parsons, Foreigner, Bret Michaels and The Smithereens.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Agoura Hills had a populace of 20,330.
The ethnic makeup of Agoura Hills was 17,147 (84.3%) White, (78.6% Non-Hispanic White), 267 (1.3%) African American, 51 (0.3%) Native American, 1,521 (7.5%) Asian, 24 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 590 (2.9%) from other competitions, and 730 (3.6%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 4,904 citizens (24.1%) under the age of 18, 1,582 citizens (7.8%) aged 18 to 24, 4,465 citizens (22.0%) aged 25 to 44, 7,089 citizens (34.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,290 citizens (11.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
16,111 citizens (79.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 4,131 citizens (20.3%) lived in rental housing units.
10 Sheraton Agoura Hills 82 Agoura Hills is governed by a City Council/City Manager form of government.
The Mayor is chosen by the City Councilmembers to serve a one-year term. The City Manager is appointed by the City Council to supervise the administrative personnel and contract services. As of December 2014, the Agoura Hills City Council consists of Harry Schwartz (Mayor), Denis Weber (Mayor Pro Tem), Illece Buckley Weber, William D.
In the California State Legislature, Agoura Hills is in the 27th Senate District, represented by Democrat Henry Stern, and in the 50th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Richard Bloom. In the United States House of Representatives, Agoura Hills is in California's 33rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu. In the 2008 presidential election, however, Barack Obama won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John Mc - Cain only won 29% of the vote. Las Virgenes Water District serves Agoura Hills along with Westlake Village and other parts of Los Angeles County.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) operates the Malibu/Lost Hills Station in Calabasas, serving Agoura Hills. The United States Postal Service Agoura Hills Post Office is positioned at 5158 Clareton Drive. Agoura Hills is home to the Great Race of Agoura Hills, an annual running event held at Chumash Park in Agoura Hills in March of every year.
The Great Race was established in 1986 and features six competitions including Pacific Half (Half Marathon), Chesebro Half (Half Marathon), Old Agoura 10 - K, Deena Kastor (5 Kilometers), Kids 1 Mile, and the Family Fun Run (1 Mile).
The Las Virgenes Unified School District serves Agoura Hills.
Agoura Hills will be the corporate command posts of the Los Angeles Rams through 2019. He lived in Agoura Hills for a several years before he moved to Toronto, Canada in January 2015.
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