Bishop, California City of Bishop Downtown Bishop looking south along US 395 Downtown Bishop looking south along US 395 City of Bishop is positioned in California City of Bishop - City of Bishop Named for Bishop Creek Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) is a town/city in Inyo County, California, United States.
Although Bishop is the only town/city and the biggest populated place in Inyo County, the governmental center of county is positioned in Independence.
Bishop is positioned near the northern end of the Owens Valley, at an altitude of 4,150 feet (1,260 m). The populace was 3,879 at the 2010 census, up from 3,575 at the 2000 census.
The town was titled after Bishop Creek, flowing out of the Sierra Nevada: the creek was titled after Samuel Addison Bishop, a settler in the Owens Valley.
Bishop lies west of the Owens River at the northern end of the Owens Valley.
US 395 also joins Bishop to Los Angeles via State Route 14 through Palmdale.
Bishop is the end of U.S.
The Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony control territory just west of the town.
Bishop is immediately to the east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of the White Mountains.
Numerous peaks are inside a short distance of Bishop, including Mount Humphreys (13,986 ft.), to the west, White Mountain Peak (14,242 ft.) in the northeast, and pyramidal Mount Tom (13,658 ft.) northwest of town.
Basin Mountain (13,187 ft.) is viewed to the west from Bishop as it rises above the Buttermilks.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), over 97% of it land.
Bishop is known as the "Mule Capital of the World" and a seven-day festival called Bishop Mule Days has been held since 1969 on the week of Memorial Day, celebrating the contributions of pack mules to the area.
Bishop is well known in the modern climbing community.
Near the town/city are various climbing spots that attract visitors from around the world. There are over 2,000 bouldering enigma in Bishop.
Aerial view of Bishop, looking west.
Line Street, Bishop's chief East-West Street, is in center left, running from the bottom of the photo into the distance.
Bishop Area Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau Bishop, as well as the rest of the Owens Valley, has an dry climate (Koppen BWk) with an annual average of 5.18 inches (132 mm) of precipitation, and is part of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7. The wettest year was 1969 with 17.09 in (434 mm) of rain and the driest 1989 with 1.81 in (46.0 mm), although from July 2006 to June 2007 a mere 1.46 inches (37.1 mm) fell.
The most rain in one month was 8.93 in (227 mm) in January 1969, which encompassed 4.00 in (102 mm) on January 4, the most rainfall recorded in 24 hours in Bishop.
There is an average of 2.5 evenings of sub 10 F ( 12 C) lows, 134 evenings where the low reaches the freezing mark, 100 days with 90 F (32 C)+ highs, and 25 days with 100 F (38 C)+ highs.
Due to the aridity and hot high-altitude sun, there are only 32 days with maxima below 50 F (10 C) and only one per year with a maximum below 32 F (0 C), and the annual diurnal temperature variation is 36.9 F (20.5 C), reaching 42 F (23 C) in summer.
Climate data for Bishop, California (Eastern Sierra Regional Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1943 present Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 1.2 0.4 0.4 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 0.7 3.0 The demographic knowledge below applies to inhabitants living inside the town/city limits of Bishop; 3,879 in downtown Bishop.
The "greater Bishop area," which includes unincorporated close-by neighborhoods such as West Bishop, Meadow Creek-Dixon Lane, Wilkerson Ranch, Rocking K, Mustang Mesa and Round Valley includes an additional 11,000 residents. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Bishop had a populace of 3,879.
The ethnic makeup of Bishop was 2,867 (73.9%) White, 22 (0.6%) African American, 91 (2.3%) Native American, 61 (1.6%) Asian, 1 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 723 (18.6%) from other competitions, and 114 (2.9%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 3,771 citizens (97.2% of the population) lived in homeholds, 36 (0.9%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 72 (1.9%) were institutionalized.
There were 1,748 homeholds, out of which 499 (28.5%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 574 (32.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 181 (10.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 99 (5.7%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 925 citizens (23.8%) under the age of 18, 298 citizens (7.7%) aged 18 to 24, 1,014 citizens (26.1%) aged 25 to 44, 1,031 citizens (26.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 611 citizens (15.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
1,353 citizens (34.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,418 citizens (62.3%) lived in rental housing units.
Petroglyphs at Volcanic Tablelands BLM area, north of Bishop.
There were 1,684 homeholds out of which 26.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 33.5% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 50.6% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 24.2% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 14.0% of families and 16.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 23.0% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over.
In the state legislature, Bishop is in the 26th Assembly District, represented by Republican Devon Mathis. It is also in the 8th State Senate district.
Federally, Bishop is in California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. Bishop maintains its own law enforcement (the only one in Inyo County), but also has a substation of the Inyo County Sheriff's Department on the outskirts of the city.
Route 395 is the chief highway serving Bishop between southern California and Reno while U.S.
The Bishop Creek postal service directed from 1870 to 1889 and from 1935 to 1938. The first Bishop postal service opened in 1889. The economy of Bishop suffered when farmers sold their land.
Jack Foley, a Bishop resident and sound effects specialist, mitigated the economic loss by persuading a several Los Angeles movie-makers that the town of Bishop would be ideal as a locale to shoot westerns.
Television director and producer David Barrett also calls Bishop home, along with his brother, stuntman and NASCAR driver Stanton Barrett.
Bishop was the home of Galen Rowell, and his wife Barbara, before their death at the Eastern Sierra Regional Airport.
Matt Williams, former Major League Baseball 3rd baseman and former manager of the Washington Nationals, was born in Bishop.
Albright, the second director of the National Park Service, was born in Bishop in 1890.
Artist Robert Clunie lived and painted in Bishop for decades.
Artist Alex Stenzel lives in Bishop.
Jill Kinmont, noted ski racer who was paralyzed in a 1955 accident, interval up in Bishop.
The actor Robert Bray, who portrayed forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie from 1964 1968 and Simon Kane in ABC's Stagecoach West from 1960 1961, retired to Bishop, where he died in 1983 at the age of sixty-five.
Former child actor Richard Eyer, who played Bray's son in Stagecoach West, was a teacher in Bishop, until he retired.
Tod Griffin, a tv actor from 1953 to 1961, resided in Bishop at the time of his death in 2002.
Mountaineer Peter Croft lives in Bishop.
Dunagan US Army Medal of Honor recipient graduated from Bishop High School.
Actor Trevor Donovan interval up in Bishop.
Cowboy poet Curley Fletcher (1892-1954) was raised in Bishop.
Major League Baseball pitcher Hal Gregg lived in Bishop until his death there in 1991.
Was a character actor in dozens of films, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Shane, who lived in Bishop until his death in Big Pine in 1995.
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