Barstow, California
Barstow, California City of Barstow View of Barstow, looking northwest View of Barstow, looking northwest Location of Barstow in San Bernardino County Location of Barstow in San Bernardino County Barstow, California is positioned in the US Barstow, California - Barstow, California Website Barstow, California Barstow is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Barstow is positioned 55 miles (89 km) north of San Bernardino.
Barstow is a primary transportation center for the Inland Empire.
Barstow is about 62 miles (100 km) from Baker, California and 111 miles (179 km) from Primm, Nevada.
Barstow is almost exactly midway between Los Angeles, California (130 miles (210 km) southwest) and Las Vegas, Nevada (125 miles (201 km) northeast).
Barstow is home to Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow and is the closest town/city to the Fort Irwin National Training Center.
Army post 20 miles (32 km) east of Barstow, was occupied sporadically until 1864, then permanently, by soldiers occupying other posts on the Mojave Road or patrolling in the region until 1871. Trading posts were established at Grapevines and Fish Ponds that supplied travelers on the roads and increasingly the miners that came into the Mohave Desert after the end of hostilities with the native citizens . Barstow's roots also lie in the rich quarrying history of the Mojave Desert following the discernment of gold and silver in the Owens Valley and in mountain peaks to the east in the 1860s and 1870s.
The Southern Pacific assembled a line from Mojave, California through Barstow to Needles in 1883.
Paving the primary highways through Barstow led to further evolution of the city.
Before the advent of the interstate highway system, Barstow was an meaningful stop on both Routes 66 and 91.
The two routes met in downtown Barstow and continued west together to Los Angeles.
Barstow is titled after William Barstow Strong, former president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Some early Barstow names were Camp Sugarloaf, Grapevine, and Waterman Junction. In July, the normal high temperature is 105 F (41 C) with a low of 74 F (23 C). There are an average of 140 days with highs of 90 F (32 C) or higher, an average of 82 days with highs of 100 - F degrees or higher, and an average of 25 days with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
Climate data for Barstow, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Barstow had a populace of 22,639.
The ethnic makeup of Barstow was 11,840 (52.3%) White (34.2% Non-Hispanic White), 3,313 (14.6%) African American, 477 (2.1%) Native American, 723 (3.2%) Asian, 278 (1.2%) Pacific Islander, 4,242 (18.7%) from other competitions, and 1,766 (7.8%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 6,739 citizens (29.8%) under the age of 18, 2,481 citizens (11.0%) aged 18 to 24, 5,723 citizens (25.3%) aged 25 to 44, 5,277 citizens (23.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,419 citizens (10.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Barstow had a median homehold income of $42,354, with 26.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Barstow has a series of murals along Main Street, depicting scenes from the city's history.
Barstow Branch Library is positioned at 304 E.
Hollywood Theatre Barstow Cinema 6 is the city's indoor cinema.
It has six screens and can be found at 1503 East Main Street, in the east side of the city. As of September 30, 2011, Skyline Drive-In took over Hollywood Theatre, changing its name back to Barstow Station Cinema. Barstow Community College has a $22 million Performing Arts Center which hosts college theatre and music performances, and traveling experienced performances.
Barstow has a number of exhibitions: Mojave River Valley Museum, Route 66 Mother Road Museum, the Western America Rail Museum, and the Desert Discovery Center.
The Barstow Chamber of Commerce sponsors an annual sandcastle contest in the dry riverbed athwart from the Harvey House.
Opened in 1975 and operating 365 days a year, Barstow Station serves 20,000 tour buses a year and is a prominent stop for travelers on Interstate 15.
In November 2013, Dunkin' Donuts opened inside Barstow Station, becoming only the second locale of that chain inside the entire state of California (following a shop on Camp Pendleton) and the first to be accessible to the general public. The Mc - Donald's restaurant at Barstow Station consists of three side-by-side barns cars a reference to Barstow's barns heritage.
Located southwest of the town is the upscale Tanger Center Barstow, of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers chain, which is a prominent stop for tourists traveling between Greater Los Angeles and Las Vegas. An older shopping center of supply stores, the Barstow Factory Outlet, is positioned opposite the Tanger Outlet Center.
The town has an enclosed shopping mall, Barstow Mall, assembled in the 1970s.
Barstow also has chapters of Walmart, Vons, Stater Bros., 99 Cents Only Stores, The Home Depot, and Ace Hardware.
The United States Armed Forces's National Training Center (NTC) and NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex are positioned at the close-by Fort Irwin, north of Barstow.
Rainbow Basin is an Area of Critical Environmental Concern due to landscape features and paleontological resources in the area. Located 8 miles (13 km) north of Barstow, its diverse landscape, multi-colored modern formations and scenic canyons are prominent with photographers, hikers and campers keen to experience the area's natural beauty.
The fossiliferous Barstow Formation (Miocene) is well exposed there.
Rainbow Basin is managed by the Bureau of Land Management's Barstow Field Office.
Coyote Dry Lake is a 30 square miles (78 km2) dry lake positioned 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Barstow.
The Solar Project is positioned in Daggett, CA, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Barstow.
Barstow is home to the Barstow Riffians, a developmental semi-professional football team.
The Barstow Riffians are members of the UFAL. Barstow Community College's athletics department offers four competing intercollegiate sports programs: Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Baseball and Softball. Barstow has two chief parks: the Barstow Skate Park, a 12,000 square-foot skate park, and the Robert A.
Founded in the 1970s by two small-town residents, the grow Barstow Senior Center serves Barstow's seniors.
In the California State Legislature, Barstow is in the 16th Senate District, represented by Republican Jean Fuller, and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jay Obernolte. In the United States House of Representatives, Barstow is in California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $33.1 million in revenues, $37.2 million in expenditures, $149.8 million in total assets, $25.3 million in total liabilities, and $52.6 million in cash and investments. The structure of the management and coordination of town/city services is: The Barstow Youth Advisory Council (BYAC) was established in March 2009.
Thirteen teen promotes advise Barstow City Council members on the needs of young citizens in the town/city and promote youth improve involvement through voluntary activities. Its long distance from primary cities and urban centers has created economic problems, and Barstow is seeking projects to boost the economy.
Numerous assembly projects have been announced for Barstow, including a Wal-Mart distribution center, retail growth, and an increase in lodging accommodation. 4 Barstow Unified School District 643 9 Barstow Community College 396 12 Barstow Community Hospital 300 13 Veterans Home of California Barstow 217 15 City of Barstow 164 Barstow Unified School District has 8 elementary schools (grades 1 6): Thomson Elementary School (Now Barstow Stem Academy) Grades 7 8 are taught at Barstow Junior High School and grades 9 12 are taught at Barstow High School.
Barstow Community College is the only college in the area, and its major objectives are to enable students to transfer to a four-year college or college and learn vocational trades through Career Technical Education.
Founded in 1910 and retitled in 1958, the Desert Dispatch is Barstow's small-town newspaper. The journal has a daily circulation of 3,259 and was awarded second place for Sports Page Design, Opinion Page Design and Editorial Comment at the 2008 Better Newspapers Contest, hosted by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Barstow's chief airways broadcast is KDUC (or "K-DUCK"), which plays adult intact music and also serves Victorville, Apple Valley, Hesperia and Ridgecrest, California.
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" is the opening sentence of Hunter S.
Barstow City Council has a dedicated film office, which acts as a point of liaison and resources for film locations, equipment and accommodation for filmmakers and their crews. A number of notable motion pictures were shot in the city, including Broken Arrow, Courage Under Fire, From Dusk till Dawn, Gattaca, Erin Brockovich, and Kill Bill: Volume 2. Other notable mentions of Barstow include the 2008 movie Leaving Barstow, which tells the story of a high school senior who must choose between his ambitions to leave Barstow or stay in the town/city to care for his mother.
The fictional Brian O'Conner in 2 Fast 2 Furious interval up in Barstow and travels to the town/city to persuade a former childhood friend to join him in an FBI operation.
The film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas mentions Barstow incessantly.
Barstow is also mentioned in 2009 movie The Hangover before the roadtrip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
The movie version of "Hair" was partially filmed in Barstow in the late 1970s.
In 2015, Barstow was one of the recording locations for the film Sky as well as Bombay Beach, Hinkley, Joshua Tree, Landers, Lenwood, Ludlow, Newberry Springs, and Victorville, California. Barstow is mentioned in the lyrics of Route 66 composed by Bobby Troup.
Composer Harry Partch wrote Barstow, inspired by eight pieces of graffiti written by hitchhikers on highway railings in the city. The Residents' song "Death in Barstow" tells the story of two friends who visit and fall asleep in Barstow.
Barstow Area Transit (BAT) is the small-town transit system. It covers the town/city of Barstow and the encircling areas in San Bernardino County.
BAT operates three fixed town/city bus routes on an hourly schedule, a dial-a-ride service for seniors and persons with disabilities and two county routes serving Hinkley, Yermo, Daggett, and Newberry Springs. The county services operate on a fixed route with a deviation zone and a flexible time schedule.
All town/city and county buses connect at Barstow City Hall Transport Center.
Intercity buses that serve Barstow include Greyhound, Orange Belt Stages, Intercalifornias, TUFESA, and Fronteras del Norte. The major arteries serving Barstow are Interstate 40, Interstate 15, and California State Route 58.
Barstow Community Hospital is a 56-bed hospital serving the encircling High Desert community.
Barstow has its own police department, plus a county-wide station of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, which serves the unincorporated areas around the city, including Newberry Springs, Trona, Baker and Ludlow.
Fire prevention and paramedic services are provided by the Barstow Fire Protection District.
On November 19, 2010 Barstow inhabitants were warned that the region water fitness was contaminated. A small-town region military base, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow notified Golden State Water that samples taken from their water fitness showed the chemical perchlorate at levels above the maximum contaminant level of 6 parts per billion.
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