Coronado, California Coronado, California City of Coronado The Hotel del Coronado in December 2008 The Hotel del Coronado in December 2008 Flag of Coronado, California Flag Official seal of Coronado, California Coronado, California is positioned in the US Coronado, California - Coronado, California Coronado, since the 1980s also mistakenly known as Coronado Island, is a resort town/city located in San Diego County, California, athwart and around San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. Its populace was 24,697 at the 2010 census, up from 24,100 at the 2000 census.
It is part of the San Diego County, California.
Coronado lies on the geographic combination of an island and a tombolo connected to the mainland called the Silver Strand.
Coronado is a tied island, connected by a tombolo.
Stephen Leatherman, Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, ranked Coronado Beach as the best beach in the United States. Coronado is Spanish for "crowned one", and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been titled after the city, including the USS Coronado (LCS-4).
6 Hotel del Coronado Their intention was to problematic a resort community, and in 1886, the Coronado Beach Company was organized.
By 1888, they had assembled the Hotel del Coronado, and the town/city became a primary resort destination.
In 1900, a tourist/vacation region just south of the Hotel del Coronado was established by John D.
In the 1910s, Coronado was connected to San Diego by the Class 1 streetcars and an extensive, accompanying San Diego enhance transit fitness that was spurred by the Panama California Exposition of 1915 and assembled by John D.
The sun rises over the San Diego Coronado Bridge with smoke from the Harris Fire looming overhead According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 32.7 square miles (85 km2); 20.5 km (7.9 mi ) of the town/city is territory and 24.7 square miles (64 km2) of it (75.72%) is water.
This tombolo, along with Coronado and North Island, forms San Diego Bay.
Originally, Coronado was mostly separated from North Island by a shallow inlet of water called the Spanish Bight, but just like Coronado, North Island was never completely surrounded by water.
The evolution of North Island by the United States Navy before to and amid World War II led to the filling of the bight by July 1944, combining the territory areas into a single body. The Navy still operates Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI or "North Island") on Coronado.
On the southern side of the town is Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, a training center for Navy SEALs and Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen (SWCC).
Both facilities are part of the larger Naval Base Coronado complex.
Although there has been localized evolution of the coastline, including some minor landfill, Coronado retains largely the same region that it had in 1857.
In 1969, the San Diego Coronado Bridge was opened, allowing much faster transit between the metros/cities than bay ferries or driving via State Route 75 along the Silver Strand.
The town/city is presently[when?] weighing the options of additional assembly on Highway 75 to alleviate congestion as traffic flows to and from San Diego and North Island. Coronado bridge Coronado beach 2009 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Coronado town/city had a populace of 24,697.
Real estate in the town/city of Coronado is very expensive.
According to a recent county-wide zip code chart presented in The San Diego Union-Tribune in August 2006, the median cost of a single-family home inside the city's zip code of 92118 was $1,605,000.
In 2010, Forbes.com found that the median home price in Coronado had risen to $1,840,665. Coronado is governed by a town/city council, which is presided over by a directly-elected mayor.
Coronado has long been a Republican stronghold; in 2013, about 47% of voters were registered Republican, 25% Democratic, and 24% nonpartisan. In the California State Legislature, Coronado is in the 39th Senate District, represented by Democrat Toni Atkins, and in the 78th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Todd Gloria. In the United States House of Representatives, Coronado is positioned in California's 52nd congressional district, which has a Cook partisan voting index of D+2 and is represented by Democrat Scott Peters. The Coronado Ferry Landing Tourism is an essential component of Coronado's economy. This town/city is home to three primary resorts (Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Island Marriott and Loews Coronado Bay Resort) as well as a several other hotels and inns. The downtown precinct along Orange Avenue with its many shops, restaurants and theaters is also a key part of the small-town economy.
In 2008, the Travel Channel rated Coronado Beach as the fifth best beach in America. Hotel del Coronado from the beach.
Main article: Hotel del Coronado Coronado is home to the famous Hotel del Coronado, assembled in 1888 and long considered one of the world's top resorts.
Hotel del Coronado, 1885.
Baum designed the crown chandeliers in the hotel's dining room. Because of the reported association with Oz, Coronado is often associated with the color green and is sometimes referred to as "The Emerald City".
The colors of Coronado High are green and white; the Coronado town/city flag is a tricolor of green-white-green with a crown in the middle; and a small-town surf/skate shop is titled Emerald City.
Coronado Unified School District includes Coronado Middle School (CMS), Coronado High School, Silver Strand Elementary, and Village Elementary.
Coronado School of the Arts, a enhance school-within-a-school on the ground of Coronado High School, is also present on the island.
Vice President Joe Biden speaks to Navy SEAL trainees, NAB Coronado, 2009 1 United States Navy (Naval Air Station North Island, et al.) 11,000 14,999 2 Hotel del Coronado 1,000 4,999 3 Loews Coronado Bay Resort 500 999 4 Sharp Coronado Hospital 500 999 5 City of Coronado 250 499 6 Coronado Unified School District 250 600 7 Coronado Island Marriott Resort 250 499 See also: Category: People from Coronado, California Hinde riverboat captain, businessman, initial investor of Hotel del Coronado Their plan was to dig up the bottom of the San Diego Bay and add sand to the Silver Strand on Coronado Island, in order to grew the enhance beaches and to hide the second part of the plan.
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