Needles, California Needles (Mojave: Aha Kuloh) is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Needles was titled after "The Needles", a group of pinnacles, mountain peaks in the Mohave Mountains on the Arizona side of the river to the south of the city.
Needles is a gateway to the Mojave National Preserve.
- Needles Chamber of Commerce The Mohave, one of the traditional Colorado River Indian Tribes, are Native Americans that have been living in the Mojave Valley region for thousands of years before to the European exploration of the area.
The name was derived from the Needles, pointed mountain peaks where the wind-blown holes in them (which can only be seen by boat from the Colorado River), at the south end of the valley.
Needles was a primary stop on the historic U.S.
Needles is a tourism and recreation center, a tradition going back for decades.
Needles, like Death Valley to the northwest, is known for extreme heat amid the summer.
The Needles weather station is incessantly reported by the United States government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the site of the highest daily temperature recorded in the U.S.
Needles occasionally sets nationwide or world daily temperature records.
The mean annual temperature for Needles, CA is 74.2 F (23.4 C). In the winter, the normal high temperatures range from 62 F (17 C) to 80 F (27 C) with lows of 40 F (4 C) to 60 F (16 C).
During summer the normal high temperatures range from 106 F (41 C) to 122 F (50 C) with lows of 82 F (28 C) to 94 F (34 C).
On July 22, 2006, Needles experienced a record high low temperature, with a temperature recorded to be 100 F (38 C) at 6:00 AM with a high temperature exceeding 120 F (49 C). On August 13, 2012, Needles experienced a thunderstorm that deposited precipitation at a temperature of 115 F (46 C) starting at 3:56 PM, setting a new record for the hottest precipitation in world history.
The air temperature was 118 F (48 C), tying Needles' record high for the date.
The average year has 168.4 days with highs of 90 F (32 C) or higher and 4.9 days with lows of 32 F (0 C) or lower.
Although snow flurry is very rare in Needles, 15.2 inches of snow fell in January 1949, including 12.2 inches on January 12, 1949. Needles is served by the National Weather Service's NOAA Weather Radio operating on 162.50 MHz from the Las Vegas National Weather Service.
On Monday, June 20, 2016, Needles recorded a high temperature of 125 F (51.7 C); this ties the all time temperature record, recorded on July 17, 2005, and breaks the previous June record of 123 F (50.6 C) recorded on June 29, 2013.
Climate data for Needles, California In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 23.6% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 30.2 square miles (78 km2).
The once lesser nearby communities of Bullhead City, Arizona, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, and Laughlin, Nevada have in recent years turn into larger communities than Needles.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Needles had a populace of 4,844.
The ethnic makeup of Needles was 3,669 (75.7%) White (65.4% Non-Hispanic White), 95 (2.0%) African American, 399 (8.2%) Native American, 35 (0.7%) Asian, 9 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 323 (6.7%) from other competitions, and 314 (6.5%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 4,839 citizens (99.9% of the population) lived in homeholds, 5 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 1,918 homeholds, out of which 650 (33.9%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 712 (37.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 331 (17.3%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 159 (8.3%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 1,283 citizens (26.5%) under the age of 18, 401 citizens (8.3%) aged 18 to 24, 1,038 citizens (21.4%) aged 25 to 44, 1,357 citizens (28.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 765 citizens (15.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
2,578 citizens (53.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,261 citizens (46.7%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Needles had a median homehold income of $29,613, with 28.8% of the populace living below the poverty line. The City of Needles was incorporated on October 30, 1913. It is a charter city, led by an propel mayor and a town/city council with six propel members.
In the California State Legislature, Needles is in the 16th Senate District, represented by Republican Jean Fuller, and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jay Obernolte. In the United States House of Representatives, Needles is in California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook. In 2008, claiming the county had been unwilling to help keep the city's troubled hospital open as a full-service medical facility, the town/city considered seceding from California and becoming part of neighboring Nevada, only a several miles away.
The options of attaching itself to the state of Arizona or even forming a new county were also considered. Proposals to change states would require approval from the United States Congress and both state legislatures.
Interstate 40, known locally as the Needles Freeway, is the primary highway through Needles, connecting Barstow to the west and Arizona to the east.
The Colorado River Bridge joins Needles directly with Mohave County, Arizona, and Arizona State Route 95.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides daily service to Needles station, operating its Southwest Chief between Chicago and Los Angeles that arrives between midnight to 2am.
Local Transit service to the Needles region is provided by Needles Area Transit. As of August 2, 2016, Victor Valley Transit Authority has Service From Needles to Barstow and Victorville on Fridays.
John Lorimer was the first mayor of Needles.
Needles is served under contract with the San Bernardino County Fire Department. Fire Station 32 serves as the administrative offices for fire protection to the City of Needles and homes three Type I Engine companies and one Water Tender.
For many years, Needles has been home to a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency room. Needles' elementary schools and Needles High School are part of the Needles Unified School District.
The school precinct is one of the biggest in the United States in terms of region with almost 6,000 square miles (16,000 km2) in its boundaries.
The precinct runs from Amboy to Needles, and south to Parker Dam.
It has 1,158 students enrolled. The small-town Needles schools include Katie Hohstadt Elementary School, formerly called 'D' Street School (new home of Needles Head Start, and no longer a regular enhance school), Vista Colorado Elementary School (Grades K 5), Needles Middle School (Grades 6 8), Needles High School (Grades 9 12), and the Educational Training Center (Grades 9 12).
Needles High School, due to its distance from other California schools, is a member of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, along with four other similarly placed California schools: Truckee, North Tahoe, South Tahoe, and Coleville.
Needles also has two private schools: the Needles Assembly of God Christian School and the Needles Seventh-day Adventist School.
In the 1993 film Suture, the town of Needles is a key element of the plot.
In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family stops in Needles when they enter California on Route 66.
In the comic strip Peanuts, whose creator Charles Schulz lived in Needles as a boy, Snoopy's brother Spike lived in the desert outside Needles.
He incessantly heads to Needles to partake of the town's eveninglife, often running afoul of the small-town coyotes.
In 2004, John Lowery (John 5), former guitarist for Marilyn Manson, released his CD Vertigo, in which the first track is entitled "Needles CA." Well, I headed for Las Vegas, only made it out to Needles.
Izzy Stradlin's 1999 album Ride On includes a track entitled "Needles" about his love of visiting the town.
We pulled into a truck stop Somewhere just outside of Needles California, You asked me for ten bucks and I said "What about the last ten bucks I loaned you?" In October 2006, two students and two teachers from Needles High School were invited to Washington DC to meet with the Under Secretary of Defense, in which they spoke of the new program at Needles High School called MOCK National Security Workshop.
Needles was the chief site of a 2009 UFO Hunters episode investigating a supposed UFO Crash.
Needles High School was on a School Pride tv episode November 12, 2010.
In the Sex and the City season 6 episode "Out of the Frying Pan", Smith Jerrod and Samantha Jones attend the movie premiere of a Gus Van Sant film called Needles, CA''.
April 10, 1992: 38-year-old comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a head-on car crash outside of Needles.
Tony Hawk at the opening of the Needles Skate Park on January 3, 2004.
In late 2000 to early 2001, skateboard legend Tony Hawk donated $10,000 to the Needles Skate Park, which is still in use today.
Needles (and the encircling area) was the scene for the hit 1988 post-apocalyptic computer RPG Wasteland.
66, the jubilated "Mother Road" which passed through Needles on its way between Chicago and Los Angeles, and painted by small-town artist Dan Louden, have turn into a prominent tourist attraction. January 11, 1960: Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at a forum established by the Needles School District.
Max Rafferty, Superintendent of the Needles School District.
Max Rafferty, Needles Superintendent of Schools, 1955 1961, became California Superintendent of Public Instruction 1962 1970.
Charles Schulz, cartoonist of Peanuts, lived in Needles 1928 30 and made it the residence of Snoopy's brother Spike.
Bess Houdini, wife and stage assistant of famed escape artist Harry Houdini, died in Needles in 1943.
Sam Kinison, comedian, died in a traffic accident near Needles in 1992, on his way to a performance in Laughlin, Nevada. Yara tav, prestige of the Mohave citizens (1861-1874), born close to the Needles modern formation before the establishment of the town. City of Needles.
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Rain falls at 115 F in Needles, California".
"Needles, California (CA) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, news, sex offenders".
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IMDB search results for Needles "City of San Bernardino - Mayor's Biography".
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