Hemet, California Hemet, California City of Hemet Official seal of Hemet, California Hemet is positioned in California Hemet - Hemet Hemet is a town/city in the San Jacinto Valley in Riverside County, California, United States.
It covers a total region of 27.8 square miles (72 km2), about half of the valley, which it shares with the neighboring town/city of San Jacinto.
The beginning of Hemet predates the formation of Riverside County. The formation of Lake Hemet helped the town/city to expanded and stimulated agriculture in the area.
The town/city is known for being the home of The Ramona Pageant, California's official outside play. Started in 1923, the play is one of the longest running outside plays in the United States.
Hemet has been titled a Tree City USA for 20 years by the Arbor Day Foundation for its dedication to the small-town forest. The town/city is home to the Hemet Valley Medical Center, a 320-bed general hospital. The Hemet Maze Stone The Cahuilla tribe were the initial inhabitants of the Hemet area.
Mayberry established the Lake Hemet Water Company, the Hemet Land Company, and the town/city of Hemet.
In 1895, the Hemet Dam was instead of on the San Jacinto River, creating Lake Hemet and providing a reliable waterworks to the San Jacinto Valley.
1907 Hemet Hotel in Background Sunrise over Downtown Hemet, looking south down Harvard St.
Downtown Hemet, looking south down North Harvard St.
The City of Hemet was incorporated in January 1910.
The incorporation helped to serve the burgeoning city, which was outgrowing its current infrastructure. Served by a barns spur from Riverside, the town/city became a trading center for the San Jacinto Valley's agriculture, which encompassed citrus, apricots, peaches, olives and walnuts.
The town/city has long hosted the Agricultural District Farmer's Fair of Riverside County, which began in 1936 as the Hemet Turkey Show, now positioned in Perris.
In 1950, Hemet was home to 10,000 citizens , and joined Corona and Riverside as the three biggest cities in Riverside County.
In the 1960s, large-scale residentiary evolution began, mostly in the form of mobile home parks and retirement communities, giving Hemet a reputation as a working-class retirement area.
The area's affordability, its adjacency to employment centers such as Corona, Riverside and San Bernardino, and its mostly non-urban character made it an attractive locale for working-class families priced out of other areas of Southern California.
Hemet Panorama at evening from the entrance of Simpson Park From the Hemet Library Heritage Room History Collection: 1887: Lake Hemet Water Company & Hemet Land Company formed 1895: Lake Hemet Dam instead of 1910: City of Hemet incorporated 1921: Opening of the Hemet Theater 1966: Hemet Unified School District formed from a several existing districts 1972: New Hemet high school opened 1987: Depot abandoned by Santa Fe barns offered to sell to City of Hemet 1998: Hemet Museum opened in Santa Fe depot Hemet is positioned in southwestern Riverside County, in the San Jacinto Valley.
Hemet is south of the town/city of San Jacinto.
The valley is surrounded by the Santa Rosa Hills and San Jacinto Mountains, and is mostly dry land, except for Diamond Valley Lake to the south of Hemet.
Hemet is positioned at 33 44 31 N 116 58 59 W (33.742001, 116.983068). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 27.847 square miles (72 km2) as of the 2010 census, all of it land.
Hemet is 80 miles (130 km) southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. Climate data for Hemet, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Hemet had a populace of 78,657.
The ethnic makeup of Hemet was 53,259 (67.7%) White (51.8% Non-Hispanic White), 5,049 (6.4%) African American, 1,223 (1.6%) Native American, 2,352 (3.0%) Asian, 284 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 12,371 (15.7%) from other competitions, and 4,119 (5.2%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 20,340 citizens (25.9%) under the age of 18, 6,814 citizens (8.7%) aged 18 to 24, 17,323 citizens (22.0%) aged 25 to 44, 16,776 citizens (21.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 17,404 citizens (22.1%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Hemet had a median homehold income of $32,774, with 23.3% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. According to the California Economic Development Department, in 2005 the economy of Hemet was based on four chief industries: retail trade, community and educational services, and government.
The amount of wage and full time pay positions in Hemet is 22,769, with a further 1,479 citizens were self-employed, adding up to a total of 24,248 jobs in the city. According to the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, the top employers in the town/city are the following. Hemet Unified School District 2,798 City of Hemet 290 Hemet Museum/Old Santa Fe Depot on West Florida Avenue The City of Hemet has two exhibitions, and an outside amphitheater.
The Hemet Museum is positioned at the intersection of State Street and Florida Avenue in downtown.
It is a exhibition of small-town history, and features photographs of old Hemet, historic photographs from the Ramona Pageant, as well as Native American artifacts and agriculture displays.
Hemet is also home of the Western Science Center, positioned in the southern part of the town/city at the intersection of Domenigoni Parkway and Searl Parkway.
Along with the two exhibitions, science center and theater, close to Hemet there sits an outside amphitheater, the privately owned Ramona Bowl is a natural amphitheater positioned nearby in the Riverside county foothills.
The town/city of Hemet is expanding upon its entertainment venues.
The three biggest venues are the Ramona Bowl, an outside amphitheater, a Regal Cinemas and the Historic Hemet Theatre, assembled in 1921.
The Historic Hemet Theater was once the earliest continually run single-screen theater in the nation.
In July 2013 the Historic Hemet Theater Foundation negotiated a five-year lease/option to purchase the theater.
Since then the Foundation has restored the Theater back to operation and is in the process of raising funds in order to purchase and restore the Hemet Historical Treasure.
In addition to Diamond Valley Lake, Hemet has five large parks throughout the city.
Dedicated to James Simpson, Hemet City Council 1947 48,and mayor 1950 to 1966.
Simpson Park is a wilderness park positioned in the Santa Rosa Hills southeast of Hemet with sheltered picnic region and tables, barbecues, restrooms, and hiking trails.
At an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m), it provides an expansive view of San Jacinto Valley, as well of close-by towns of Winchester (Menifee) and Rancho California (Temecula, California), and it has an region of 438 acres (1.8 km2). Dedicated to Mary Henley, born in Hemet and served as Hemet City Clerk from October 1951 to March 1975, and is the first Hemet Park titled after a real person.
The park, part of the easterly recreation region of Diamond Valley Lake hosts eight baseball fields, eight lighted baseball fields, eight soccer fields, four basketball courts, six tennis courts, seven volleyball courts, two pickle ball courts, public trails, three play areas, four restrooms, and three picnic areas.
The City of Hemet has a police department with 75 sworn officers.
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The city's educational services are under the Hemet Unified School District to cover all of Hemet, and parts of San Jacinto and Valle Vista, with a student pupil populace of over 20,000 students.
As of January 2010, the school precinct is facing having to possibly go far out of budget to fix the Historic Hemet Elementary school, due to settling of ground soil underneath the building.
The chief building was assembled in 1927, and is one of the several historic landmarks left in Hemet.
Hemet High School, Western Center Academy, West Valley High School and Tahquitz High School in Hemet and Hamilton High School in Anza.
Acacia Middle School, Diamond Valley Middle School, Dartmouth Middle School, Western Center Academy, and Rancho Viejo Middle School.
Bautista Creek Elementary, Cawston Elementary, Fruitvale Elementary, Harmony Elementary, Hemet Elementary, Jacob Wiens Elementary, Little Lake Elementary, Mc - Sweeny Elementary, Ramona Elementary, Valle Vista Elementary, Whittier Elementary and Winchester Elementary.
Advanced Path Studies School (credit recovery), Alessandro High School continuation (grades 10 12), Family Tree Learning Center (grades K 8), Helen Hunt Jackson School for autonomous studies, Hemet Academy of applied academics and technology (grades 9 12), Hemecinto Alternative Educational Center (grades 6 9), and Western Center Academy (grades 6 10).
San Jacinto Valley Academy is a K 12 charter school that serves students and families who do not wish to go to traditional precinct schools.
Hemet and close-by San Jacinto are situated in the Los Angeles DMA and are able to receive most of the Los Angeles and Riverside/San Bernardino region tv stations via cable and satellite providers.
Hemet Eye News, established by Eddie George provides news coverage, promotion of small-town businesses and entertainment via the prominent Facebook group Hemet News, a website and a You - Tube channel. Local photojournalist and reporter John Strangis works with media sources in Hemet and encircling areas.
His stringer footage airs on mainstream media channels and he contributes photography and articles to small-town newspapers The Valley Chronicle, Valley News and journalist Trevor Montgomery's Riverside County News Source. Hemet Valley Incidents, a web-based news source, provides inhabitants with small-town news coverage in the City since 2013.
Also welcoming a new web-based Facebook page is Hemet Scoop News, that is working alongside the community.
Public transit in Hemet, is provided by the RTA, which has stops at various locations including Florida Ave.
And Lincoln Ave, and the Hemet Valley Mall.
Routes in the Hemet region include: 27, 31, 32, 33, 42, 74, 79, 212, 217. Two California State Highways cross the city.
California State Route 74 runs along most of Florida Avenue, the chief corridor of east and west transit in Hemet, and California State Route 79 also follows Florida for a short time before heading south on Winchester road, in close-by Homeland.
Streets in Hemet are arranged mostly in a standard grid.
Major streets in Hemet are Florida Avenue, Sanderson Avenue, San Jacinto Street, Stetson Avenue, and State Street. Hemet Public Library, positioned in downtown The City of Hemet enhance library was created in 1906.
In 1910 after the town/city had incorporated, people of the newly formed town/city voted for its own library, and the town/city took over the operation of the facility assembled in 1906.
Harvard District - Downtown Hemet in 2014 Hemet Theater in downtown.
Downtown Hemet, looking north down Harvard St.
The Church's Gold Base compound lies just north of Hemet in San Jacinto.
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