Camarillo, California Camarillo, California Looking southeast athwart Camarillo from the northwestern hills on a warm sunny day in late October Looking southeast athwart Camarillo from the northwestern hills on a warm sunny day in late October Official logo of Camarillo, California Location in Ventura County and the state of California Location in Ventura County and the state of California Camarillo, California is positioned in the US Camarillo, California - Camarillo, California Named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo Camarillo (/ k m ri o / kam- -ree-oh) is a town/city in Ventura County in the U.S.
Camarillo is titled for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, two of the several Californios (pre-1848 California natives of Hispanic ancestry) to preserve the city's tradition after the arrival of Anglo settlers.
Adolfo Camarillo eventually working 700 workers burgeoning mainly lima beans.
Adolfo bred Camarillo White Horses in the 1920s through the 1960s and was well known for riding them, dressed in colorful Spanish attire, in parades such as the Fiesta of Santa Barbara.
The town/city interval slowly before to World War II but the war accomplishment saw the assembly of the Oxnard Army Air Field (later Oxnard Air Force Base in 1951, now Camarillo Airport) to the west of town.
The grounds of Camarillo State Hospital, which opened in 1936 south of town, are now the ground of California State University, Channel Islands.
As with most metros/cities in Ventura County, it is noted for its resistance to new development. In 2014, the council voted against an 895-acre universal that would have extended evolution on agricultural lands east towards the Conejo Grade. 5 Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District 5.3 Camarillo Christmas Parade 7.9 Camarillo State Hospital & CSUCI 7.11 Camarillo Premium Outlets 7.12 Camarillo Springs Fire 9.1 Camarillo Airport A panoramic view of Camarillo looking southeast Camarillo is positioned at 34 14 N 119 2 W (34.2256, 119.0322). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 19.5 square miles (51 km2).
Camarillo is positioned in Pleasant Valley at the easterly end of the Oxnard Plain, with the Santa Susana Mountains to the north, the Camarillo Hills to the northwest, the Conejo Valley to the east, and the reaches of the Santa Monica Mountains to the south.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Camarillo has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Climate data for Camarillo, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Camarillo had a populace of 65,201.
The ethnic makeup of Camarillo was 48,947 (75.1%) White, 1,216 (1.9%) African American, 397 (0.6%) Native American, 6,633 (10.2%) Asian, 116 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 4,774 (7.3%) from other competitions, and 3,118 (4.8%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 15,115 citizens (23.2%) under the age of 18, 5,164 citizens (7.9%) aged 18 to 24, 15,895 citizens (24.4%) aged 25 to 44, 17,825 citizens (27.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,202 citizens (17.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
On October 13, 2010, the Camarillo City Council voted 5 0 to withdraw from the Ventura County Library System, and enter into a public-private contract with Library Systems & Services (LSSI) of Germantown, Maryland, a private business that administers a several libraries throughout the United States, to furnish locally hired staffing and to manage the day-to-day operations of the City of Camarillo Public Library.
Under the partnership agreement, the library will remain in the enhance trust, managed by the City of Camarillo and directed by LSSI. On January 1, 2011, the City of Camarillo Public Library opened as municipal enhance library. The City of Camarillo Public Library A view of Camarillo from close-by hills on a cloudy day in April.
Camarillo and the encircling area has a temperate, Mediterranean-type climate.
Camarillo is primarily a bedroom improve made up of large housing tracts, with elementary schools and small strip malls serving the neighborhood.
The major enhance high schools serving Camarillo are Adolfo Camarillo High School in Mission Oaks, and Rio Mesa High School in Strickland between Oxnard and Camarillo, and Rancho Campana High School near the intersection of Lewis Road and Las Posas Road.
The YMCA has a facility on Village at the Park Drive, and a new library was constructed and opened on March 31, 2007. Many sports leagues, including adult leagues, such as baseball, basketball, football, and the biggest AYSO soccer league west of the Mississippi are positioned in Camarillo.
An outside in-line hockey rink is in Freedom Park, near the Camarillo Airport.
Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District The Pleasant Valley Recreation & Park District (PVRPD, www.pvrpd.org) is an autonomous Special-purpose precinct positioned in Ventura County, California. The District is positioned in and around the City of Camarillo, serves a populace of over 70,000 and covers an region approximately 45 square miles. It has grown from one park and 30 acres to 27 parks and over 300 acres since its inception in 1962.
The District is a separate government agency from the City of Camarillo.
The boundaries of the District also varies from the City of Camarillo.
The District is governed by publicly propel Board of Directors and is managed by a General Manager. The Pleasant Valley Recreation & Park District is funded by small-town property taxes and fees to furnish and maintain parks and outside recreational facilities for the appreciatement of all Camarillo people. 2012 Agency Showcase Award for Outstanding Activity Guide from the California Park and Recreation Society District 8 2012 Award for Park Operations and Maintenance for Pleasant Valley Fields Premier Soccer Facility from California Park and Recreation Society District 8 2011 Agency Showcase Award Agency Brochure from California Park and Recreation Society District 8 2004 Agency Showcase Award Outstanding Recreation Guide for the Fall 2004 Recreation Guide from California Park and Recreation Society District 8 Camarillo Christmas Parade The Pleasant Valley and Recreation and Park District has hosted the Camarillo Christmas Parade since 1962.
Camarillo resident Walter Brennan also had been a grand marshal in the 1970s.
Calleguas Creek Camarillo Grove Park Community Center Park Dos Caminos Park A town/city manager, hired by the council and answerable to it, is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the city.
As of January 2017, the mayor of Camarillo is Jan Mc - Donald. Police services are provided by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department under contract to the city, headquartered in a police station owned by the city.
The Sheriff's department helicopter fleet is hangared at Camarillo Airport.
Ventura County Fire Department provides fire protection, with five stations inside the town/city limits.
One grant to Jose Pedro Ruiz created Rancho Calleguas in 1837, in the region that is now Camarillo.
The grant was later sold to Juan Camarillo, who had appeared in 1834 as a member of the Hijar-Padres Expedition; it was his sons Adolfo and Juan that are credited with the beginning of the town that was to bear their name.
At about same time, the town of Springville had begun to form just to the west of the emerging town of Camarillo on the chief road to Ventura which is now the intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Wood Road. The Springville Post Office, which was open from 1875 to 1903, was one of seventeen postal services operating in the county in 1890.(p194)[note 1] The Springville School District was established in 1887 and the grammar school was south of the settlement on the chief road (now Pleasant Valley Road) to the new wharf at Hueneme where schooners brought lumber from the north and carried grain, lima beans and sheep to markets in San Francisco.
Springville's existence was threatened though when the Southern Pacific Railroad Coast Route was routed farther south through Pleasant Valley and a depot was established in close-by Camarillo.
The settlement disappeared but in 2012 a new road was titled Springville Drive to honor the little town and is now marked on the 101 freeway with an overpass and ramps at the end of Camarillo.
In 1927 Don Juan Camarillo, brother of Adolfo, donated 100 acres (0.40 km2) to be used as a seminary to be titled in honor of Saint John the Evangelist.
Camarillo's expansion was slow from beginning through World War II.
One of the farm fields in southern Camarillo.
With the Korean War and associated Cold War tensions, the former Oxnard AAF was reactivated in 1951 as Oxnard Air Force Base, an Air Defense Command / Aerospace Defense Command fighter-interceptor base, that closed again in 1970 and became the present-day Camarillo Airport.
In the mid-1950s, the Ventura Freeway, which bisects the town, was instead of from Los Angeles to points north, making it an easy one-hour trip to Camarillo.
The freeway was originally prepared to follow the path of Potrero Road, south of Camarillo, which would have completely by-passed the soon-to-be city.
However, after much debate, town/city officials persuaded Caltrans to lay the freeway alongside to Ventura Boulevard, creating the infamously steep descent from the Santa Monica Mountains, known as the Conejo Grade.
Camarillo became a town/city in 1964 and soon put into place a General Plan and building codes that were to lead to an attractive town/city surrounding.
Much of the town/city was expected to be advanced to the south of Ventura Blvd, however it was to the north that the new town/city grew, and the territory south of Ventura Blvd remains reserved for agricultural use to this day. Camarillo State Hospital & CSUCI Main articles: Camarillo State Mental Hospital and California State University, Channel Islands Camarillo State Mental Hospital was established near the town/city in the 1930s so that persons suffering from mental illnesses or tuberculosis could recover in Ventura County's balmy climate.
The song "Camarillo" by punk outfit Fear is also written about the facility.
The band Ambrosia released a song called "Ready for Camarillo" on their 1978 Life Beyond L.A.
"Ready for Camarillo" also appeared as the single B side of their hit "How Much I Feel." The band Brazzaville released a video called "Camarillo" in 2007, with mental hospital-like imagery and lyrics concerning lead singer David Brown's relatives' stay in the institution. The Camarillo State Hospital was closed in the 1990s and remained vacant until the site was converted into California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI).
This parcel was advanced as a prepared improve over the span of 35 years, and was instead of in October 2004. The region developed by Pardee Homes makes up approximately 15% of Camarillo's total land.
These new retail centers have provided a large influx of cash to the city; from 1993 to 1998 revenue tax revenues nearly doubled from approximately $3.5 million to approximately $6.5 million. On April 23, 2009, a several new shops and restaurants opened at the Camarillo Premium Outlets, designated "The Promenade".
Camarillo Springs Fire on Thursday, May 2, 2013, a primary brush fire began in the Camarillo Springs region and burned throughout the area.
Semtech and Salem Communications are based in Camarillo.
Main article: Camarillo Airport Camarillo Airport (ICAO: KCMA, FAA LID: CMA) is a enhance airport positioned 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the central company precinct of Camarillo.
Camarillo Airport also serves as the base of operations of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department Aviation Unit and the home of the VCSD's Training Facility and Academy, the Ventura County Criminal Justice Training Center.
The Camarillo Airport also serves as the base of operations for the Ventura County Fire Department, the Ventura County Fire Department Regional Fire/EMS Communications Center (or FCC, which handles all 911 calls for service for fire and medical emergencies in Ventura County w/ the exception of Oxnard City Fire), and facilitates the Oxnard College Regional Fire Academy and the Ventura County Reserve Officers Training Center.
Main article: Camarillo (Amtrak station) Camarillo has one train station, served by both Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego and Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to Montalvo.
CAT operates one scheduled bus line on Monday through Friday inside Camarillo, and Dial-A-Ride services for the disabled on Monday through Saturday.
VISTA operates buses between Camarillo and a several nearby cities, including the Conejo Express to the Warner Center region in Los Angeles County.
A non-urban region northeast of Camarillo, California may be referred to as Santa Rosa or Camrosa.
Camrosa is believed to be a contraction of Camarillo and Santa Rosa.
The region includes just over a five-mile (8 km) distance along Santa Rosa Road from the town/city limit east to Moorpark Road.
Wired telephone service to the region comes from the Camarillo telephone exchange, while homes on the hillside overlooking the valley (from the south) are from Thousand Oaks. Geographic features supporting these names include: Santa Rosa Elementary, 13282 Santa Rosa Rd., Pleasant Valley Elementary School Dist., USGS feature ID 249119. This Santa Rosa is not the same as the Sonoma County town/city of the same name.
Notable citizens associated with Camarillo in alphabetical order: The motion pictures Coming Home, Pearl Harbor, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Iron Eagle, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, and Friday the 13th: A New Beginning were filmed in Camarillo.
The well used in the film The Ring is positioned in Camarillo Camarillo is sometimes mentioned in literature because of the mental hospital once positioned there.
In Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, he mentions a place "...somewhere near Camarillo where Charlie Parker'd been mad and relaxed back to normal health" (The Dharma Bums, 1).
Frank Zappa referred to the town/city in his 1973 song "Camarillo Brillo".
Adolfo Camarillo Camarillo Ranch House Post Offices in Ventura, Hueneme, Santa Paula, Saticoy, and Nordoff provided cash order service (Ventura also handled International exchange).
Ventura County settlements with a Post Office in 1890 also encompassed Bardsdale, Camulos, Fillmore, Matilija, Montalvo, Newbury Park, New Jerusalem, Piru City, Punta Gorda, Simi, Springville, and Timberville.
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