Irvine, California Irvine City H Giant Wheel at Irvine Spectrum C San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary OC Great Park Balloon Ride 070714.jpg Campus of the University of California, Irvine (aerial view, about 2006).jpg Irvine Civic Center, San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, University of California, Irvine, Balloon ride at Orange County Great Park, "Giant Wheel" at Irvine Spectrum Center Official seal of Irvine, California Named for James Irvine City symbols of Irvine Irvine (/ rva n/ ur-vyn) is an well-to-do town/city in Orange County, California, United States.
It is a prepared city; the Irvine Company started developing the region in the 1960s.
Formally incorporated on December 28, 1971, the 66-square-mile (170 km2) town/city had a populace of 212,375 as of the 2010 census; in 2016 the city's populace was 258,386. A number of corporations, especially in the technology and semiconductor sectors, have their nationwide or global headquarters in Irvine.
Irvine is also home to a several higher education establishments including the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Concordia University, Irvine Valley College, the Orange County Center of the University of Southern California (USC), and campuses of California State University Fullerton (CSUF), University of La Verne, and Pepperdine University.
6.1 The Irvine Global Village Festival 6.2 Irvine Community Television The Gabrieleno indigenous group inhabited Irvine about 2,000 years ago.
Three large Spanish/Mexican grants made up the territory that later became the Irvine Ranch: Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, Rancho San Joaquin and Rancho Lomas de Santiago.
Camp Bonita at Irvine Ranch in 1937 In 1864, Jose Andres Sepulveda, owner of Rancho San Joaquin sold 50,000 acres (200 km2) to Benjamin and Thomas Flint, Llewellyn Bixby and James Irvine for $18,000 to resolve debts due to the Great Drought.
In 1866, Irvine, Flint and Bixby acquired 47,000-acre (190 km2) Rancho Lomas de Santiago for $7,000.
In 1868, the ranch was divided among four claimants as part of a lawsuit: Flint, Bixby and Irvine.
In 1878, James Irvine acquired his partners' interests for $150,000.
James Irvine died in 1886.
The ranch was inherited by his son, James Irvine, Jr., who incorporated it into The Irvine Company.
In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad extended its line to Fallbrook Junction, north of San Diego, and titled a station along the way after James Irvine.
The town that formed around this station was titled Myford, after Irvine's son, because a postal service in Calaveras County already bore the family name.
The town was retitled Irvine in 1914. Suburban evolution in Irvine Ranch in 1975 The developing urban core in the town/city of Irvine in 2010 By 1918, 60,000 acres (240 km2) of lima beans were grown on the Irvine Ranch.
James Irvine, Jr., died in 1947 at the age of 80.
His son, Myford, assumed the presidency of The Irvine Company.
He began opening small sections of the Irvine Ranch to urban development.
The Irvine Ranch played host to the Boy Scouts of America's 1953 National Scout Jamboree.
Sills came back to Irvine as an adult and went on to serve four terms as the city's mayor.
Myford Irvine died in 1959.
The same year, the University of California asked The Irvine Company for 1,000 acres (4 km2) for a new college campus.
The Irvine Company sold the requested territory for $1 and later the state purchased an additional 500 acres (2.0 km2). William Pereira, the university's consulting architect, and The Irvine Company creators drew up master plans for a town/city of 50,000 citizens encircling the new university.
The new improve was to be titled Irvine; the old agricultural town of Irvine, where the barns station and postal service were located, was retitled East Irvine. The first phases of the villages of Turtle Rock, University Park, Westpark (then called Culverdale), El Camino Real, and Walnut were instead of by 1970.
By January 1999, Irvine had a populace of 134,000 and a total region of 43 square miles (111 km2). In late 2003, after a ten-year-long legal battle, Irvine took in the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.
This added 7.3 square miles (19 km2) of territory to the town/city and blocked an initiative championed by Newport Beach inhabitants to replace John Wayne Airport with a new airport at El Toro. Most of this territory has turn into part of the Orange County Great Park.
Irvine borders Tustin to the north, Santa Ana to the northwest, Lake Forest to the east, Laguna Hills to the southeast, Costa Mesa to the west, and Newport Beach to the southwest.
Most of Irvine is in a broad, flat valley between Loma Ridge in the north and San Joaquin Hills in the south.
A view of the Irvine Business Complex and the 405 Freeway Los Angeles architect William Pereira and Irvine Company employee Raymond Watson designed Irvine's layout of Irvine, which is nominally divided into townships called "villages", separated by six-lane streets.
When the Irvine Company refused to relinquish valuable farmland in the flat central region of the ranch for this plan, the college site was moved to the base of the southern coastal hills.
The design that ended up being used was based on the shape of a necklace (with the villages strung along two alongside chief streets, which terminate at University of California, Irvine (UCI), the "pendant"). Residential areas are now bordered by two commercial districts, the Irvine Business Complex to the west and the Irvine Spectrum to the east.
The planning areas of Irvine Older parts of the Village of Northwood that were advanced beginning in the early 1970s autonomously of the Irvine Company, have the distinct ion of being a larger village that is not under the purview of a homeowners' association.
Rue Rueda Gigante Square in Irvine Spectrum.
East Irvine Irvine Groves Irvine Spectrum (Contemporary/Moroccan) Old Towne Irvine University Park (California Modern) West Irvine (California Modern) Late spring and early summer in Irvine is subject to the June Gloom phenomenon widespread in southern California, with overcast mornings and occasional drizzle.
Precipitation in Irvine occurs dominantly amid the winter months.
Because Irvine is close to the coast, different parts of Irvine have different microclimates; for instance, the June Gloom effect is stronger in the southern parts of Irvine, closer to the Pacific Ocean.
It can occasionally snow in the Santa Ana Mountains to the north of Irvine. Snow inside the lower-lying parts of Irvine is very rare, but the region received three inches of snow in January 1949. A tornado touched down in Irvine in 1991, an event that happens in Orange County more generally approximately once every five years. Climate data for Irvine Ranch, Irvine, California In 2016, Irvine became the biggest city in the continental United States with an Asian American plurality, constituting around 45% of the city's population. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Irvine had a populace of 212,375.
The ethnic makeup of Irvine was 107,215 (50.5%) White, 3,718 (1.8%) African American, 355 (0.2%) Native American, 83,176 (39.2%) Asian, 334 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 5,867 (2.8%) from other competitions, and 11,710 (5.5%) from two or more competitions.
The age distribution of the populace was as follows: 45,675 citizens (21.5%) under the age of 18, 30,384 citizens (14.3%) aged 18 to 24, 66,670 citizens (31.4%) aged 25 to 44, 51,185 citizens (24.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 18,461 citizens (8.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Irvine had a median homehold income of $90,585, with 12.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. In the city, the populace is spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 14.4% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 22.6% from 45 to 64, and 7.2% who are 65 years of age or older.
According to 2007 Enumeration Bureau estimates, the median income for a homehold in the town/city is $98,923, and the median income for a family is $111,455; these numbers make Irvine the seventh richest town/city in the USA, among metros/cities with populace 65,000 or higher. 9.1% of the populace and 5.0% of families are below the poverty line.
This was the highest of any place in the United States of more than 100,000 citizens . The skyrocketing high cost of housing is a primary copy in Irvine and Orange County, as the town/city council faces pressure to approve future income-subsidized housing projects to meet the demands of working-class people.
University High School in Irvine Mc - Gaugh Hall at the University of California, Irvine Irvine was chosen in 2008 by CNNMoney.com as the fourth-best place to live in the United States. In 2012, it was ranked sixth nationally. In September 2011, Businessweek listed Irvine as the fifth-best town/city in the United States. Irvine persistently rates as the safest town/city in America with a populace over 100,000. In 2014, Irvine was titled the best-run town/city in the U.S.
Fountain at Irvine Spectrum Center.
The center and its encircling areas constitute a momentous part of Irvine's economy.
Blizzard Entertainment command posts is positioned in Irvine Irvine's tourism knowledge is coordinated through the Destination Irvine program run by the Chamber of Commerce.
The program provides knowledge on Irvine as a place to vacation and as a destination for meetings, affairs and other company initiatives.
Irvine has been rated one of the top metros/cities for start-up businesses and its strong, fast-growing economy helped place Orange County as one of the top ten quickest burgeoning job markets. Irvine is also used as a locale for film projects.
The following companies are headquartered in Irvine: The following global companies have their North American command posts in Irvine: Broadcom command posts at UC Irvine's University Research Park 1 University of California, Irvine 15,750 Education 2 Irvine Unified School District 4,285 Education The Irvine Global Village Festival Every October, Irvine hosts the Irvine Global Village Festival to jubilate the range among the people of Irvine and Orange County.
Irvine Community Television The Irvine Community Television (ICTV) produces and broadcasts tv programs on news, sports, arts, culture, safety for the Irvine community.
Irvine has three enhance libraries: Heritage Park Regional Library, University Park Library, and Katie Wheeler Library.
The Heritage Library serves as the county-wide reference library for Central Orange County and has a strong company and art focus while the University Park Library has 95,745 books, including a substantial Chinese collection. Katie Wheeler was the granddaughter of James Irvine, and the library is a replica of the home owned by Irvine in which she interval up. Additionally, most UCI Libraries are open to the public. California State University Fullerton, Irvine Campus Concordia University, Irvine Irvine Spectrum Center Irvine Valley College Islamic Center of Irvine Saddleback Church, Irvine Campuses University of California, Irvine University of California, Irvine, Arboretum Irvine has improve parks and neighborhood parks.
Neighborhood parks furnish open space and some recreational amenities inside the various villages of Irvine.
University Community Park Other enhance spaces inside Irvine, not part of the town/city parks department, include William R.
Mason Regional Park, Aldrich Park in the UC Irvine campus, and the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.
Irvine is a charter city, operating under a Council/Manager form of government. According to the city's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for FY2014-2015, as of June 30, 2015 the town/city has net assets of $2.59 billion.
Assistant City Manager - Great Park Eric Tolles The City Council consists of the Mayor and four City Council members.
The City Council appoints the City Manager, who functions as the chief administrator of the city.
The City Council sets the policies for the city, and the City Manager is responsible for implementing the policies.
The town/city of Irvine is served by seven departments.
Support services are provided through other agencies including: Irvine Unified School District, Tustin Unified School District, Southern California Edison, Irvine Ranch Water District, and Orange County Fire Authority.
Irvine contracts with the County of Orange for fire and medical services.
Fire protection in Irvine is provided by the Orange County Fire Authority with ambulance service by Care Ambulance.
Law enforcement is provided by the Irvine Police Department (IPD).
The IPD operates in a suburban town/city rated as having one of the lowest violent crime rates among metros/cities with over 100,000 inhabitants by the FBI every year since 2005. The University of California Police Department also has jurisdiction including arrest power in areas of the town/city near the UC Irvine campus, while the California State University Police Department has similar jurisdiction in areas of the town/city near the CSU Fullerton Irvine campus.
Of the 106,982 registered voters in Irvine, 34.6% are Democrats, 31.1% are Republicans, 30.5% have no party preference and the rest are registered with third parties. In the California State Senate, Irvine is in the 37th Senate District, represented by Republican John Moorlach.
During the 2011 redistricting, Irvine became part of California's 45th congressional district.
Most of Irvine is positioned in the Irvine Unified School District (IUSD).
The five high schools in IUSD are University High School, Irvine High School, Northwood High School, Woodbridge High School, and Portola High School.
Beckman High School is positioned in Irvine but is administered by Tustin Unified School District.
Irvine is also home to elementary and middle schools, including two alternative, year round, open enrollment K-8 schools, Plaza Vista and Vista Verde. Parts of the north and west of the town/city are inside the Tustin Unified School District.
Irvine is home to the University of California, Irvine, which is the second-newest ground (established 1965) in the UC fitness after University of California, Merced.
Other college studies establishments in Irvine include California Southern University, Concordia University, Westcliff University, Paramount California University a distance learning university, Irvine Valley College, Fuller Theological Seminary, FIDM, The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Orange County Campus, Stanbridge College, and a satellite ground of California State University, Fullerton.
Chapman University and Soka University of America are in adjoining cities.
According to the 2000 United States Census, Irvine is ranked 7th nationwide, among metros/cities with populations of at least 100,000, for having the highest percentage of citizens who are at least 25 years old with doctoral degrees, with 3,589 inhabitants reporting such educational attainment. The Irvine Transportation Center, also known as the Irvine Station Streets and intersections owned by the town/city have trademark mahogany signage and are fiber optically linked to the city's Irvine Traffic Research and Control Center (ITRAC). Traffic cameras and ground sensors monitor the flow of traffic throughout the town/city and automatically adjust signal timing to line up traffic, allowing more vehicles to pass through severaler red lights. Several primary highways pass through Irvine (Interstate 5, and Interstate 405 (California), California State Route 73, California State Route 133, California State Route 241, and California State Route 261).
Major arteries through Irvine are assembled out widely and run in a northeasterly direction with speed limits higher than 50 mph (80 km/h).
As a result of the signal timing, wide streets, and road layout, Irvine's side streets are capable of handling a higher volume of traffic than other metros/cities in Orange County. The town/city of Irvine has directed its own mass-transit bus service called the i - Shuttle since 2008.
Two lines, Route A and Route B, connect the Tustin Metrolink Station to the Irvine Business Complex area.
The remaining two lines, Route C and Route D, offer connections between the Irvine Station and the Irvine Spectrum Area, which includes primary employers, the Irvine Spectrum Center, and residentiary communities The Park and The Village.
Route C follows Irvine Center Drive and ends at the Capital Group campus, while Route D serves the Irvine Spectrum Center, Kaiser Permanente - Irvine Medical Center, and Hoag Hospital Irvine. Irvine is served by commuter rail to Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties at both the Irvine and Tustin stations of the Metrolink Orange County Line and the IE-OC Line.
Amtrak trains stop only at Irvine station, unlike Metrolink, which stops at both Irvine and Tustin station.
A four-story parking structure was recently instead of at the Irvine station as part of a station renovation.
At one time Irvine intended to build a tram / guideway, but in February 2009 the town/city of Irvine canceled the project. Initially plans were underway to connect the Orange County Great Park to the Irvine Spectrum Center and encircling businesses with a fixed-route transit system, also stopping at the Irvine Transportation Center (Irvine Station).
A primary contributing factor to the expansion of Irvine was by freight rail provided by ATSF (Now BNSF) Transportation.
The Venta Spur was Irvine's first spur.
The refining plants were essentially Irvine's first and biggest employers of the time.
In 1999, following its donation to the town/city of Irvine, it was turned into the Venta Spur bike trail.
The Irvine Industrial Spur is the second barns spur in Irvine.
It serves various industries in Irvine's Business Complex.
It presently sees little to no boss and the Irvine planning department is considering turning it into a bike path.
Irvine offers a fitness of bicycle lanes and trails to encourage the use of bikes as a means of transportation.
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