El Cajon, California "El Cajon"
El Cajon .
El Cajon, California City of El Cajon Office building on El Cajon's Main Street Office building on El Cajon's Main Street Official seal of El Cajon, California Location in San Diego County and the state of California Location in San Diego County and the state of California El Cajon, California is positioned in the US El Cajon, California - El Cajon, California County San Diego El Cajon (/ lk ho n/; Spanish: [elka xon]) is a town/city in San Diego County, California, United States.
In a valley surrounded by mountain peaks, the town/city has acquired the nickname of "The Big Box." Its name originated similarly, from the Spanish phrase "el cajon," which means "the box" or "the drawer." El Cajon, Spanish for "the big box," was first recorded on September 10, 1821, as an alternative name for sitio rancho Santa Monica to describe the "boxed in" nature of the valley in which it sat.
In 1905, the name was once again period to "El Cajon" under the insistence of California banker and historian, Zoeth Skinner Eldredge. El Cajon is positioned at 32 47 54 N 116 57 36 W (32.798300, -116.960055). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.4 square miles (37 km2), all land.
It is bordered by San Diego and La Mesa on the west, Spring Valley on the south, Santee on the north, and unincorporated San Diego County on the east.
It includes the neighborhoods of Fletcher Hills, Bostonia, and Rancho San Diego.
Under the Koppen climate classification system, El Cajon straddles areas of Mediterranean climate (CSa) and semi-arid climate (BSh).
El Cajon's climate has greater extremes compared to coastal San Diego.
El Cajon's climate is warm amid summer with mean temperatures averaging 70.1 F (21.2 C) or higher and cool amid winter with mean temperatures averaging 55.4 F (13.0 C) or higher.
The warmest month of the year is August with an average maximum temperature of 88.1 F (31.2 C), while the coldest month of the year is December with an average minimum temperature of 40.3 F (4.6 C).
Temperature variations between evening and day tend to be moderate with an average difference of 24 F (13 C) amid the summer, and an average difference of 26 F (14 C) amid the winter.
The annual average rain at El Cajon is 11.96 inches (30.4 cm).
Climate data for El Cajon, California (1981 2010 normals) During Spanish rule (1769 1821), the government encouraged settlement of territory now known as California by the establishment of large territory grants called ranchos, from which the English word ranch is derived.
In the early nineteenth century, mission padres' search for pasture territory led them to the El Cajon Valley.
For years the pasture lands of El Cajon supported the cattle herds of the mission and its native Indian converts.
In 1845 California Governor Pio Pico confiscated the lands of Mission San Diego de Alcala.
He granted eleven square leagues (about 48,800 acres, 197 km2) of the El Cajon Valley to Dona Maria Antonio Estudillo, daughter of Jose Antonio Estudillo, alcalde of San Diego, to repay a $500 government obligation.
The grant was originally called Rancho Santa Monica and encompassed present day El Cajon, Bostonia, Santee, Lakeside, Flinn Springs, and the easterly part of La Mesa.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the territory grants would be honored.
As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho El Cajon was filed by Thomas W.
In 1868, Los Angeles territory developer Isaac Lankershim bought the bulk of the Pedrorena's Rancho El Cajon holdings and working Major Levi Chase, a former Union Army officer, as his agent.
Lankershim hired Amaziah Lord Knox (1833 1918), a New Englander whom he had met in San Francisco, to manage Rancho El Cajon.
El Cajon was incorporated as a town/city in 1912. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that El Cajon had a populace of 99,478.
The ethnic makeup of El Cajon was 68,897 (69.3%) White (56.8% non-Hispanic white), 6,306 (6.3%) African American, 835 (0.8%) Native American, 3,561 (3.6%) Asian (1.7% Filipino, 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Vietnamese, 0.2% Japanese, 0.1% Indian, 0.1% Korean, 0.6% Other), 495 (0.5%) Pacific Islander, 12,552 (12.6%) from other competitions, and 6,832 (6.9%) from two or more competitions.
El Cajon has a large Iraqi population, consisting of both Arabs and Assyrians both of which are some of the biggest in the country. According to the U.S.
In 2010 El Cajon had San Diego County's highest poverty rate among grownups, at 29.7%, and children, at 36.5%. According to estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments, the median homehold income of El Cajon in 2005 was $47,885 (not adjusted for inflation).
Until 2012 El Cajon was a general law town/city operating under a council-manager system.
In June 2012 the voters adopted a town/city charter, changing its status to chartered city. El Cajon is governed by a mayor and a five-member town/city council. On October 24, 2013, Mayor Mark Lewis resigned his position after coming under criticism for remarks he made about El Cajon's Chaldean community.
Many notable figures including Congressman Juan Vargas and Neighborhood Market Association President Mark Arabo called for his resignation. Lewis resigned shortly after due to community issues. On November 12 the town/city council appointed Councilman Bill Wells, who had been serving as interim mayor, as the new mayor.The vote of the council was 4-0; Wells recused himself. He was propel to a full four-year term as mayor in November 2014.
In the California State Legislature, El Cajon is in the 38th Senate District, represented by Republican Joel Anderson, and in the 71st Assembly District, represented by Republican Randy Voepel. In the United States House of Representatives, El Cajon is split between California's 50th congressional district, represented by Republican Duncan D.
Parkway Plaza is positioned in El Cajon.
According to the City's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Cajon Valley Union School District 1,412 4 City of El Cajon 450 Cajon Valley Union School District operates enhance elementary and middle schools.
Grossmont Union High School District operates enhance high schools.
Rancho San Diego Elementary Cajon Valley Middle School El Cajon Valley High School Kurt Bevacqua, former Major League Baseball player Aaron Boone, former Major League Baseball player Bob Boone, former Major League Baseball player Bret Boone, former Major League Baseball player Tony Clark, former Major League Baseball player Kevin Correia, current Major League Baseball player William John Cox (Billy Jack Cox), enhance interest attorney, author and political activist lived and served as a police officer in El Cajon between 1962 and 1968 Dave Dravecky, former Major League Baseball player Geoff Geary, former Major League Baseball player Brian Giles, former Major League Baseball player Marcus Giles, former Major League Baseball player Brian Graham, former Minor League Baseball player Mike Hartley, former Major League Baseball player Joe Kennedy, former Major League Baseball player Grant Roberts, former Major League Baseball player Shane Spencer, former Major League Baseball player Barry Zito, former Major League Baseball player WPSAN San Diego County Map Version 1.png San Diego County portal "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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El Cajon Sees Rise In Iraqi Refugee Population, ABC10 News, September 28, 2010.
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