City of Lompoc Historic downtown Lompoc at East Ocean Avenue and North H Street Historic downtown Lompoc at East Ocean Avenue and North H Street Official logo of City of Lompoc Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California City of Lompoc is positioned in the US City of Lompoc - City of Lompoc La Purisima Mission, Lompoc Temple Baptist Church, Lompoc Lompoc (/ l mpo k/, lom-poke) is a town/city in Santa Barbara County, California, on the west coast of the United States.
Before European pioneer arrived, the region around Lompoc was inhabited by the Chumash citizens .
In 1837, the Mexican government sold the region as the Rancho Lompoc territory grant.
Hollister sold his share to the Lompoc Valley Land Company, and it was on that portion of the territory that the present-day Lompoc was established as a temperance colony.
Lompoc was originally intended to be titled New Vineland, after the temperance colony in New Jersey.
8.2 Lompoc Theatre 8.3 Lompoc Pops Orchestra Prior to the Spanish conquest, the region around Lompoc was inhabited by the Chumash citizens .
In the 1940s, Grefco, another diatomaceous earth company, moved to Lompoc.
Many of the older Lompoc homes were assembled with lumber from the shipwreck.
A paved road linked Lompoc to Buellton and the rest of California around 1920.
During World War II, the coast west of Lompoc was the site of Camp Cooke, a United States Army training camp where large units could practice maneuvers.
Lompoc interval slowly until 1958, when the United States Air Force announced that the former Camp Cooke would be a test site for the Thor family of intermediate-range ballistic missiles and the first working base for the SM-65 Atlas, an intercontinental ballistic missile.
However, when the Challenger exploded amid take-off from Cape Canaveral in 1986, the West Coast shuttle program was terminated, sending Lompoc into a harsh recession.
Today, Lompoc is called "The City of Arts and Flowers" and is also becoming known for its wines.
Lompoc from the air in 2007, looking SW.
A large diatomaceous earth quarry in the Monterey Formation is just outside (south) of Lompoc.
Lompoc is positioned at 34 38 46 N 120 27 37 W (34.646182, -120.460316). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.7 square miles (30 km2), 99.34% of it territory and 0.66% of it water.
Underground flow in the sandy river bed recharges the aquifer beneath the city, from which nine wells (with a tenth one planned) supply the town/city with water.
Unlike many other metros/cities in Southern California, Lompoc is not connected to the State Water Project.
Lompoc has a cool Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb), typical of coastal California.
Climate data for Lompoc, California Jalama Beach county park, south of Lompoc In the 2010 United States Census, Lompoc had a populace of 42,434.
The populace included 11,188 citizens (26.4%) under the age of 18, 4,452 citizens (10.5%) aged 18 to 24, 12,233 citizens (28.8%) aged 25 to 44, 10,338 citizens (24.4%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,223 citizens (10.0%) who were 65 or older.
18,534 citizens (43.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units, and 20,244 citizens (47.7%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the 2000 Census, there were 43,284 citizens , 13,059 homeholds and 9,311 families residing in Lompoc.
The Lompoc Police Department is the major law enforcement agency for the city.
The town/city is also served by the Lompoc Fire Department (LFD), which responds to more than 3,800 emergency and non-emergency calls per year. The LFD provides mutual aid to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department as well as providing major fire protection and emergency medical response to the United States Penitentiary, Lompoc.
The Federal Correctional Complex positioned between Lompoc and Vandenberg AFB includes the medium- and low-security Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc, two minimum-security camps, a satellite prison camp and a residentiary drug treatment camp. State Route 1 is the primary north-south artery through Lompoc.
Lompoc is also served by - City of Lompoc Transit, the Clean Air Express to Santa Barbara/Goleta, and the Breeze Bus to Buellton/Solvang and Santa Maria.
Lompoc High School Lompoc Valley Middle School Device used as logo for Lompoc on town/city documents, tourist information, etc.
Vandenberg Air Force Base dominates the economy, directly employing a large percentage of Lompoc's inhabitants and contributing $1.7 billion to the county-wide economy. Other mainstays of the economy include the Federal Correctional Institution, the diatomaceous earth mine, the Lompoc Oil Field and associated petroleum refining facilities north of town, and agriculture (especially seed flowers and vegetables).
Wine manufacturing and wine tourism make up the quickly expanding value-added agricultural zone of the Lompoc economy.
Lompoc Valley is the gateway to the Sta.
Thirty premium boutique wine labels are produced in Lompoc, at wineries in the "wine ghetto" industrialized park and other locations.
Since the end of the Cold War, many workers working in Santa Barbara have moved to Lompoc to take favor of lower housing costs, effectively making Lompoc a bedroom improve of Santa Barbara.
The Lompoc Valley Flower Festival, held the last week of June, features a parade, carnival and craft show. In 2002, the Bodger Seed Company planted a "floral flag" as a tribute after the September 11 attacks.
The Lompoc arts scene features a number of musicians and bands, ranging from singer-songwriters to psychedelic blues-rock bands.
At the center of this scene is Howlin' Byroon's Music Exchange, a music store and incessant venue for Lompoc's musicians.
One of Lompoc's most prosperous musical artists is the modern band Saint Anne's Place, which was formed in 2008 and originally featured Jacob Cole, Samuel Cole, JT Wild and Clive Hacker.
Emily Wryn is a Lompoc songwriter whose music has been featured on NPR's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Her first EP, Head on Straight, was released in February 2012, and she played at the Indie Week festival in Ireland in April 2014. Wryn also collaborates with a small-town band, Saint Anne's Place, in a group called The Lights Electric.
Lompoc Theatre The Lompoc Theatre, which opened in 1927, was owned and directed by the Calvert family for many years. It encountered financial trouble in the 1970s because of competition from multiplexes and television.
In July 2003, a non-profit group, the Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corporation, announced plans to restore the theater.
The LHCDC was unable to raise the cash needed for renovations, and the building accumulated three liens. It was eventually sold to a grassroots group called the Lompoc Theatre Project, which hopes to reopen the theatre in 2017. Lompoc Pops Orchestra The Lompoc Pops Orchestra has been performing for 20 years.
The 1960s animated cartoon series Roger Ramjet, whose creators hailed from Lompoc, had many references to the city, which was the titular character's hometown. Fields movie The Bank Dick is set in Lompoc, although the city's name is mispronounced "Lom-pock".
The movie Sideways was filmed in Lompoc and the Santa Ynez Valley east of town.
In the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, it is on Lompoc Avenue that Roman Bellic is held hostage by the Russian mafia in an abandoned warehouse.
In the 1990s tv show Northern Exposure, DJ Chris Stevens sends his best wishes to a friend locked up in Lompoc.
In the 1998 movie Out of Sight, starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, Clooney's character was imprisoned at Lompoc.
The 1970s game show Hollywood Squares once featured the question: "Lompoc: fatal cattle disease or small California town?" In Season 3, Episode 1 of The Closer, a several of the characters live and work in Lompoc.
In one scene, a Lompoc cop comments that they rarely see any "action" in that city.
In the movie A Haunted House, Cedric the Entertainer's character mentions that he was incarcerated in the Lompoc Penitentiary.
In the song "Yay Area", rapper E-40 mentions that he has friends "in Lompoc and Skeleton Bay", a reference to the prison.
In The Fast and The Furious (2001), Toretto says he spent "two years in Lompoc.
Later in the series, in Fast & Furious (2009), Toretto is sentenced to 25 years to life at the Lompoc prison.
In Season 3, Episode 5 of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Carlton says he's driving to Lompoc to elope.
Will tells him no one drives to Lompoc; they drive through Lompoc.
In Season 2, Episode 16 of the TV show Monk, Monk claims to have been in the Lompoc prison before being moved to another.
Lompoc has five sister cities: "California Cities by Incorporation Date" (Word).
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