Los Banos City of Los Banos Los Banos is positioned in the US Los Banos - Los Banos Los Banos (/lo s b no s/ lohs-ban-ohs) is a town/city in Merced County, central California.
The town/city is served by Los Banos Municipal Airport for air transport access.
The name Los Banos is from Spanish los banos "the baths". It is titled after a spring that feeds natural wetlands in the San Joaquin Valley. Its official spelling, reflected in the name of its postal service, omits the tilde of the n. Los Banos is positioned on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Merced, at approximately 118 ft (36 m) elevation. Its coordinates are 37 03 30 N 120 51 00 W. The town/city is at the intersection of California State Route 152 and California State Route 165.
To the west is Interstate 5, which runs north-to-south between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, the San Luis Reservoir, and the Diablo Range.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.1 square miles (26 km2), of which 10.0 square miles (26 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (1.22%) is water.
Los Banos sits on the southwestern edge of extensive nationwide and state game refuges; wetlands that support waterfowl and other wildlife surrounding along a stretch of the San Joaquin river that still carries water and the Grasslands Ecological Area, home to rare California Grasslands surrounding.
The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex includes San Luis National Wildlife Refuge which includes the Kesterson Unit, East Bear Creek, West Bear Creek and the Blue Goose Unit.
Fishers, hunters, birdwatchers and other recreational users flock to Los Banos year round. Los Banos has a Mediterranean climate with cool winters and hot summers.
Los Banos The Opera House in Los Banos following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Los Banos had a populace of 35,972.
The ethnic makeup of Los Banos was 20,846 (58.0%) White, 1,354 (3.8%) African American, 512 (1.4%) Native American, 1,162 (3.2%) Asian, 134 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 10,123 (28.1%) from other competitions, and 1,841 (5.1%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 35,791 citizens (99.5% of the population) lived in homeholds, 103 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 78 (0.2%) were institutionalized.
There were 10,259 homeholds, out of which 5,451 (53.1%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 6,018 (58.7%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,474 (14.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 838 (8.2%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 12,102 citizens (33.6%) under the age of 18, 3,703 citizens (10.3%) aged 18 to 24, 9,596 citizens (26.7%) aged 25 to 44, 7,494 citizens (20.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,077 citizens (8.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
20,687 citizens (57.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 15,104 citizens (42.0%) lived in rental housing units.
Switching in Los Banos, 1991 In the city, the populace was spread out with 35.1% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 29.9% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
In the California State Legislature, Los Banos is in the 12th Senate District, represented by Republican Anthony Cannella, and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Adam Gray. In the United States House of Representatives, Los Banos is in California's 16th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +7 and is represented by Democrat Jim Costa. The Los Banos region was initially settled, as stated to Mexican territory grant records, back in the 1840s.
The first white settler in the region was Uriah Wood, who assembled his two-room cabin in 1859. The initial site of Los Banos was positioned several miles from the current town center, about a mile and half west of the barns near present-day Volta.
The town was essentially a trading post and received its name when the Post Office was established and the Post Office Department designated the office "Los Banos" after the close-by creek.
When the barns arrived, Los Banos relocated to its present-day site. The first postal service opened in 1873. Land and water rights were meaningful to early Los Banos residents, but those rights were recognized only when the territory and deed were registered.
Sometimes those rights depended on fleet footedness, as it did in the "race" between Los Banos inhabitants Uriah Wood and Henry Miller.
The centerpiece of downtown Los Banos is the newly created Miller Plaza, honoring early California rancher, Henry Miller.
Centered around cattle farming, the Miller and Lux Corporation ultimately transformed the San Joaquin Valley into what can be considered as a precursor to corporate farming and turning autonomous farmers into wageworkers. His company, the Miller & Lux Corporation, was headquartered in Los Banos on a site presently housing the Mexican restaurant Espana's and the Canal Farm Inn.
Los Banos has a long history of Portuguese and Spanish immigrants, as do many of the close-by towns on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.
Los Banos is locally known for its annual May Day Fair amid the first week of May.
Los Banos is home to The Randall Fawcett House which is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Usonian home. A member of the Manson family, Susan Atkins attended Los Banos High School, before joining the family.
Since the 1980s, the city's populace has changed with a closing influx of citizens who work in the San Jose/Silicon Valley region but seek more affordable housing and slower pace of semi-rural life, a pattern seen in many other small suburbs inside commuting distance of Silicon Valley. K-12 education is provided by the Los Banos Unified School District.
In addition, the Los Banos Campus of Merced College has served improve college students since 2007.
1 Los Banos Unified School District 843 2 Memorial Hospital Los Banos 278 4 City of Los Banos 149 City of Los Banos.
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Our - Los - Banos.com: "Our Los Banos Magazine" Municipalities and communities of Merced County, California, United States
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Los Banos, California - Cities in Merced County, California - San Joaquin Valley - Incorporated metros/cities and suburbs in California - Populated places established in 1907 - 1907 establishments in California
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