Goleta, California City of Goleta Official seal of City of Goleta Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California City of Goleta is positioned in the US City of Goleta - City of Goleta County Santa Barbara Goleta (/ li t /; Spanish: [ o leta], "schooner") is a town/city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, US.
It is known for being near the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, although the CDP of Isla Vista is closer to the campus.
The region of present-day Goleta was populated for thousands of years by the native Chumash citizens .
One of the biggest villages, S'axpilil, was north of the Goleta Slough, not far from the present-day Santa Barbara Airport. The first European visitor to the Goleta region was the Spanish mariner Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who spent time around the Channel Islands in 1542, and died there in 1543.
The first territory expedition to California, led by Gaspar de Portola, spent a several days in the region in 1769, on its way to Monterey Bay, and spent the evening of August 20 near a creek (possibly San Pedro Creek) to the north of the Goleta estuary.
At that time, the estuary was a very large open-water lagoon that veiled most of what is now the town/city of Goleta, and extended as far north as Lake Los Carneros (adjacent to Stow House). There were at least five native suburbs in the area, the biggest on an island in the middle of the lagoon.
A second Spanish expedition came to the Santa Barbara region of Alta California in 1774, led by Juan Bautista de Anza.
De Anza returned the next year, and the road along the coast of Santa Barbara County (today's Hwy 1) soon became the El Camino Real, connecting the string of Spanish missions.
An expedition in 1782, led by military governor Felipe de Neve, established the Presidio of Santa Barbara and, soon after that, the Santa Barbara Mission.
The Goleta area, along with most of the coastal areas of today's Santa Barbara County, was placed in the jurisdiction of the presidio and mission.
Starting in 1940, boosters from the town/city of Santa Barbara lobbied and obtained federal funding and passed a bond measure to formally precarious an airport on the Goleta Slough.
The Marine Corps undertook culmination of the airport and established Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara on the site of the current airport and University of California, Santa Barbara campus. After the war, Goleta Valley inhabitants supported the assembly of Lake Cachuma, which provided water, enabling a housing boom and the establishment of research and aerospace firms in the area.
In 1954, the University of California, Santa Barbara moved to part of the former Marine base.
Goleta remains a center for high-tech firms, and a bedroom improve for neighboring Santa Barbara.
Goleta was incorporated as a town/city in 2002 after a several unsuccessful attempts.
A momentous urbanized region remains unincorporated between the town of Goleta and the town/city of Santa Barbara, largely consisting of the region which polled against incorporation before to the 2002 election (this region was excluded from the town/city boundaries to facilitate approval of incorporation).
There has been some discussion of annexation of this region (sometimes dubbed "Noleta") by the town/city of Santa Barbara.
In addition, the student improve of Isla Vista directly to the south was excluded from the new town/city of Goleta.
Whether or not to include Isla Vista was a subject of debate amid incorporation planning, including Goleta inhabitants concerned about impacts on tax revenue and the voting patterns of students. A Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) report supported excluding Isla Vista because of differences in "community identity" but considered both including and excluding Isla Vista to be viable choices. In addition to Charlotte Colton, 44, and Beverly Graham, 54, the dead encompassed Ze Fairchild, 37, and Maleka Higgins, 28, both of Santa Barbara; Nicola Grant, 42, and Guadalupe Swartz, 52, both of Lompoc; and Dexter Shannon, 57, of Oxnard.
Goleta is about 8 miles (13 km) west of the town/city of Santa Barbara, along the coast (the coast runs east to west in this portion of southern California).
Nearby is the Santa Barbara ground of the University of California and the student improve of Isla Vista.
Goleta is situated in the coastal plain between the Santa Ynez Mountains, the principal mountain range of southern Santa Barbara County, and the Pacific Ocean. The mountain peaks form a scenic backdrop to the town, veiled by chaparral and displaying prominent sandstone outcrops.
The range exceeds 4,000 feet in height to the northwest of Goleta, at Broadcast and Santa Ynez Peaks.
Sundowner winds occur in both Goleta and Santa Barbara.
The "Goleta Valley" is a coastal plain between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the ocean, approximately three miles across.
The region has been subject to rapid geologic uplift, as evidenced by its coastal bluffs and narrow beaches.< Between the flattest part of the Goleta Valley and the ocean is an region of uplift alongsideing the shore which includes, from west to east, Isla Vista, Mescalitan Island, More Mesa, and the Hope Ranch Hills.
The altitude of this block of territory relative to Goleta Valley increases from 40 to 300 feet along this length. The uplift was caused by motion along the More Ranch Fault, one of the most geologically active faults in the area.
The More Ranch Fault roughly follows a line along El Colegio Road, through the southern part of the airport, along Atascadero Creek, and then continues east into Santa Barbara as the Mission Ridge Fault Zone. Soils in Goleta are mostly well drained brown fine sandy loam of the Milpitas series. Underneath the alluvial units of the coastal plain are three prominent bedrock units: the Monterey Formation, the Sisquoc Formation, and the Santa Barbara Formation.
The Santa Ynez Mountains form a scenic backdrop to Goleta.
Opossums, skunks, raccoons, and coyotes can be seen in the Goleta and Santa Barbara area. Bobcats can also be seen. Coyotes sometimes prey on small domestic pets. Skunks sometimes spray, and often fall prey to cars, owls, dogs, and coyotes. Raccoons can turn into neighborhood pests. Opossums generally inhabit neighborhoods. Dogs and cats sometimes kill small animals.
Goleta has a several significant parks, including Stow Park, Lake Los Carneros, and the Coronado Butterfly Preserve providing street access to the Ellwood Mesa Open Space on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean with beach access from UCSB. Goleta Beach County Park is just outside of the town/city limits. However, Goleta experienced one of the highest temperatures ever recorded in the United States.
The city's geography at the base of the Santa Ynez Mountains sometimes subjects Goleta to sudden hot winds locally called "sundowners", similar to the Santa Ana winds in the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
On June 17, 1859, a related wind a superheated simoon passed through the Goleta and Santa Barbara area, raising the temperature to 133 degrees Fahrenheit (56 degrees Celsius) in minutes.
The University of California Santa Barbara is the primary center of economic activeness in the area, both directly and through the various associated service trade activities which exist for the staff and students. Hispanic Business has its corporate command posts in Goleta. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Goleta had a populace of 29,888.
The populace was spread out with 6,335 citizens (21.2%) under the age of 18, 3,790 citizens (12.7%) aged 18 to 24, 7,966 citizens (26.7%) aged 25 to 44, 7,749 citizens (25.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,048 citizens (13.5%) who were 65 years of age or older.
Demographic data for 2000 is for the Goleta CDP, the Goleta Valley area, which is approximately twice the size of the City of Goleta.
Most small-town students attend schools in the Goleta Union School District and the Santa Barbara High School District.
Brandon School (within City of Goleta) Ellwood School (within City of Goleta) Kellogg School (within City of Goleta) La Patera School (within City of Goleta) Several Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District bus lines run through the city. The chief artery of the town/city is US 101, with the primary streets being Hollister Avenue and Cathedral Oaks Road.
Santa Barbara Airport is adjoining to the City of Goleta, near the intersection of Hollister and South Fairview avenues.
The airport serves the greater Santa Barbara region with five airlines connecting to larger hubs.
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