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Official logo of Oxnard, California Oxnard is positioned in the US Oxnard - Oxnard Oxnard / ksn rd/ is a town/city in the United States, positioned along the coast of Southern California.
It is the 19th most crowded city in California and the most crowded in Ventura County.
The town/city lies approximately 30 miles west of the Los Angeles town/city limits, and is part of the larger Greater Los Angeles area.
The populace of Oxnard is 203,585 as of the 2012 Financial Report. Oxnard is the most crowded city in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is listed as one of the wealthiest areas in America, with its inhabitants making well above the average nationwide income. Oxnard was incorporated in 1903.
It is positioned at the edge of the fertile Oxnard Plain, sitting adjoining to an agricultural center of strawberries and lima beans.
Oxnard is also a primary transportation core in Southern California, with Amtrak, Union Pacific, Metrolink, Greyhound, and Intercalifornia stopping in Oxnard.
Oxnard also has a small county-wide airport called Oxnard Airport (OXR).
Oxnard is also the locale of the National Weather Service forecast office that serves the Los Angeles area. 4.1.1 Oxnard strawberries Downtown Oxnard, early 1900s.
Before the arrival of Europeans, the region that is now Oxnard was inhabited by Chumash Native Americans.
Oxnard, founder of today's Moorhead, Minnesota-based American Crystal Sugar Company who directed a prosperous sugar beet factory with his three brothers (Benjamin, James, and Robert) in Chino, California, was enticed to build a $2 million factory on the plain inland from Port Hueneme.
Oxnard Historic District.
Oxnard intended to name the settlement after the Greek word for "sugar", zachari, but frustrated by agencycracy, titled it after himself.
Given the expansion of the town of Oxnard, in the spring of 1898, a barns station was assembled to service the plant, which thriving a populace of Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican workers and enough commerce to merit the designation of a town.
Ironically, the Oxnard brothers never lived in their namesake city, and they sold both the Chino and the enormous red-brick Oxnard factory with its landmark twin smokestacks in 1899 for nearly $4 million.
The Oxnard factory directed from August 19, 1899 until October 26, 1959.
Factory operations were interrupted in the Oxnard Strike of 1903.
Oxnard, 1908.
Oxnard was incorporated as a California town/city on June 30, 1903, and the enhance library was opened in 1907.
Prior to and amid World War II, the naval bases of Point Mugu and Port Hueneme were established in the region to take favor of the only primary navigable port on California's coast between the Port of Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay, and the bases in turn encouraged the evolution of the defense-based aerospace and communications industries.
In the mid-20th century Oxnard interval and advanced the areas outside the downtown with homes, industry, retail, and a new harbor titled Channel Islands Harbor.
("Bud") Smith (1916 2001) became the most influential developer in the history of Oxnard amid this time.
In June 2004, the Oxnard Police Department and the Ventura County Sheriff imposed a gang injunction over a 6.6-square-mile (17 km2) region of the central precinct of the city, in order to restrict gang activity. The injunction was upheld in the Ventura County Superior Court and made a permanent law in 2005. A similar injunction was imposed in September, 2006 over a 4.26-square-mile (11.0 km2) region of the south side of the city. Oxnard is positioned on the Oxnard Plain, an region with fertile soil.
Also native to the region is the endangered Ventura Marsh Milkvetch, and the last self-sustaining populace is in Oxnard in the center of a recently allowed high-end housing development. Walkway of the Oxnard Beach Park The town/city of Oxnard is home to over 20 miles (32 km) of scenic, mostly uncrowded coastline.
The beaches in Oxnard are large and the sand is exceptionally soft.
The sand dunes in Oxnard, which were once much more extensive, have been used to recreate Middle-Eastern desert dunes in many movies, the first being The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino.
There are very several rocks or driftwood piles at most beaches, but Oxnard is known to have dangerous rip-currents at certain beaches. Oxnard has good surfing at many of its beaches.
Beaches in Oxnard include: Ormond Beach, Silver Strand Beach, Hollywood Beach, Hollywood-By-the-Sea, Mandalay Beach, Oxnard Beach Park, Oxnard Shores, 5th Street Beach, Mandalay State Beach, Mc - Grath State Beach and Rivermouth Beach.
The Santa Clara River separates Oxnard and Ventura.
Oxnard is on a tectonically active plate, since most of Coastal California is near the boundaries between the Pacific and North American Plates.
One active fault line that transverses Oxnard is the Oak Ridge Fault, which straddles the Santa Clara River Valley westward from the Santa Susana Mountains, crosses the Oxnard Plain through Oxnard, and extends into the Santa Barbara Channel.
The fault has proven to be a momentous contributor to seismic activeness in the Oxnard region and beyond.
Minor earthquakes are incessant in the Oxnard area.
For example, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2 hit at 9:53 pm centered at four miles (6 km) east-southeast of the town/city of Oxnard on October 16, 2009. Another earthquake of magnitude 2.7 hit around 8:05 pm on December 1, 2014. Another earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit around 4:44 am on April 6, 2016. Onshore breezes keep the communities of Oxnard cooler in summer and warmer in winter than those further inland.
Climate data for Oxnard (Camarillo Airport), California 1981 2010, extremes 1952 present Also native to the region is the endangered Ventura Marsh Milkvetch, with the last self-sustaining populace in Oxnard being at the center of a recently allowed high-end housing development. Raccoons, skunks, possums, foxes, coyotes, and stray dogs and cats incessantly roam neighborhoods. The balance of wildlife in Oxnard is similar to that of most places in southern California, with small mammals being common in urbanized areas, like squirrels, raccoons, and skunks.
Oxnard has more coastal power plants than any other town/city in California, with three fossil-fuel power plants providing energy for metros/cities in both Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal - EPA) has identified Oxnard as a town/city excessively loaded by multiple sources of pollution. The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has categorized much of Oxnard in the top 10 percent of zip codes most negatively impacted by pollution in the state. In May 2015, the Oxnard City Council unanimously voted to extend the town/city moratorium on power plant construction.
Pesticides are used in the agricultural fields encircling Oxnard, as the region is one of the nation's dominant strawberry producers, with agriculture being one of the top contributors to Oxnard's economy.
Rio Mesa High School, surrounded by agricultural fields of the Oxnard Plain, has been at the center of a Title VI Civil Rights Act complaint since 1999, covering three generations. Title VI prohibits recipients of federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, color or nationwide origin.
The historical architectural styles of Oxnard ranch family homes are Victorian era, Italian style, and Carpenter Gothic. In the Henry T.
Oxnard Historic District, there are five Prairie School and eight Tudor Revival homes. The precinct includes Mission/Spanish Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Colonial Revival, and other architecture. Oxnard is a combination of neighborhoods, and urban evolution focused on the downtown, coastline, and harbor areas. The city's chief land uses are industrial, residentiary, commercial, and open space. The town/city is characterized by one and two-story buildings, the only exception being a several high rises in the northern part of the city.
Oxnard Historic District is a 70-acre (28 ha) historic precinct that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Oxnard.
Ormond Beach is a beach along the Oxnard coast.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Oxnard had a populace of 197,899.
The ethnic makeup of Oxnard encompassed 95,346 (48.2%) White, 5,771 (2.9%) African American, 2,953 (1.5%) Native American, 14,550 (7.4%) Asian, 658 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 69,527 (35.1%) from other competitions, and 9,094 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The economy of Oxnard is driven by defense, global trade, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism.
Oxnard is one of the key manufacturing centers in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Companies utilizing the Port include Del Monte Foods, Chiquita, BMW, Land Rover, and Jaguar. Other key industries driving Oxnard's existence include finance, transportation, the high tech industry, and energy, especially petroleum.
Two large active petroleum fields underlie the town/city and adjoining areas: the Oxnard Oil Field, east of the town/city along 5th Street, and the West Montalvo Oil Field along the coast to the west of town.
Tenby Inc.'s Oxnard Refinery, on 5th Street east of Del Norte Avenue, processes petroleum from both fields. 2 Oxnard Union High School District 1,500 4 City of Oxnard 1,167 Some of the primary companies headquartered in Oxnard are Haas Automation, Seminis, Raypak, Drum Workshop, Borla Performance, Boss Audio and Robbins Auto Tops Procter & Gamble and Sysco maintain their West Coast operations in Oxnard.
According to the Camarillo General Plan: "The areas studied showed a high percentage of Group I soils, primarily positioned on the mostly flat Oxnard Plain.
The Oxnard Plain, because of these high-quality agricultural soils, coupled with a favorable climate, is considered one of the most fertile areas in the world." Oxnard has been known for a several different crops over the years, including cucumbers, sugar beets, lima beans, Stock (the cut flower), and strawberries.
In the years of Oxnard's expansion during the 1970s and 80s, many farms and ranches were took in for development, and many new evolution plans threatened much of the plain's farmland.
In 1995, a grassroots accomplishment known as SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) was initiated by farmers, ranchers and people of Ventura County in an accomplishment to save the vast agricultural asset of the Oxnard Plain.
Oxnard strawberries The Oxnard Plain is well known for its strawberries.
According to the USDA, Oxnard is California's biggest strawberry producer, supplying about one-third of the State's annual strawberry volume. From the end of September through the end of October, strawberries are planted and harvesting occurs from mid-December through mid-July in Oxnard.
Each year Oxnard hosts the California Strawberry Festival amid the summer at College Park next to Oxnard College, featuring vendors as well as food items based on the fruit such as strawberry nachos, strawberry pizza, strawberry funnel cake, strawberry sundaes, and strawberry champagne. Oxnard Post Office Oxnard cultural establishments include the Carnegie Art Museum, established in 1907 as the Oxnard Public Library by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; the Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife, established by the late Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler, the Murphy Auto Museum, the Channel Islands Maritime Museum, and the Seabee Museum.
Oxnard Historic District is adjoining to the commercial downtown region where Heritage Square, a compilation of restored Victorian and Craftsman homes that were once owned by Oxnard's pioneer families, is located. Heritage Square is home to the Petit Playhouse and the Elite Theatre Company. The Oxnard Performing Arts and Convention Center is home to the New West Symphony. Oxnard also has the Oxnard Independent Film Festival and the annual Channel Islands Tall Ships Festival. The Herzog Winery is based in Oxnard along with other wine tasting rooms. Hip Hop producers Madlib, Kan Kick, rappers Dudley Perkins, Anderson .Paak and bands in the punk "Nardcore" music scene are from Oxnard, including Dr.
Oxnard is also home to the annual Oxnard Salsa Festival, which takes place on the last week-end each July.
For two days Oxnard hosts both small-town and global salsa bands in Plaza Park.
Also Oxnard is home to the Japanese- American ska band kemuri.
The Dallas Cowboys held their pre-season training camp at River Ridge Field in Oxnard in 2001, 2004 06, 2008 10 and 2012-16 (the Cowboys trained at California Lutheran University in close-by Thousand Oaks in 1963 89).
The New Orleans Saints trained in Oxnard in 2011. The Los Angeles Raiders trained at River Ridge in the 1980s and 90s. On February 4, 2016, the Los Angeles Rams (an NFL team) chose Oxnard to be the site of their Official Team Activities and mini camp.
On February 19, 2016, the town/city of Oxnard and the Rams reached a tentative agreement to host official team activities or OTAs and minicamp at River Ridge Playing Fields and on February 23, 2016, the Oxnard City Council voted unanimously 5-0 to allow the Los Angeles Rams to use the River Ridge Playing Fields facility from April 18 to June 17 and the locker room space from March 28 until June 24.
The town/city of Oxnard is served by 54 enhance school campuses which furnish education to more than 53,000 students in grades K 12.
If all Oxnard enhance school districts were unified into one district, similar to metros/cities such as New York and Los Angeles, it would be the 71st biggest school precinct in the United States. The town/city of Oxnard and encircling communities are served by four different school districts which oversee education for students grades K 8.
Hueneme School District: Serves 7,600 students at 11 campuses in South Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Oxnard beach neighborhoods.
Oxnard School District: Serves 18,000 students at 21 campuses throughout Oxnard.
Ocean View Elementary School District: Serves 3,000 students at 6 campuses in South Oxnard.
Rio School District: Serves 5,000 students at 8 campuses in North Oxnard and El Rio.
Green Junior High School in Oxnard.
There are a number of private K 8 schools including the non-denominational Mary Law Private School and a several Catholic schools, which are administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Oxnard High School All enhance high schools in Oxnard are directed by the Oxnard Union High School District, which provides high school education to 20,000 students at 10 campuses in three metros/cities (Oxnard, Camarillo and Port Hueneme) as well as the unincorporated areas of El Rio, Somis and Channel Islands.
OUHSD oversees Adolfo Camarillo High School, Channel Islands High School, Hueneme High School, Oxnard High School, Pacifica High School and Rio Mesa High School, as well as the continuation high schools Frontier, Oxnard Adult, Pacific View and Puente.
Santa Clara High School is a private Catholic high school.
Oxnard is served on the collegiate level by Oxnard College and close-by California State University Channel Islands.
Additionally, California Lutheran University, California State University, Northridge, ITT, University of Phoenix, University of California, Santa Barbara, National University and Azusa Pacific University have satellite campuses in Oxnard.
The Ventura Freeway (US 101) is the primary highway running through Oxnard, connecting Ventura and Santa Barbara to the northwest, and Los Angeles to the southeast.
Highway 34 (Fifth Street) joins downtown Oxnard with Camarillo by running east alongside with the Southern Pacific Coast Line, which carries Coast Starlight, Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink Ventura County Line passenger trains.
Highway 232 (Vineyard Avenue), heads northeast, providing connections to California State Route 118 to Saticoy and the junction with California State Route 126 which goes to Santa Paula, Fillmore and the Santa Clarita.
The Port of Hueneme is positioned south of Oxnard in the town/city of Port Hueneme and is jointly directed by the United States Navy and the Oxnard Harbor District.
Oxnard is home to one harbor: Channel Islands Harbor, with Ventura Harbor positioned seven miles (11 km) north in adjoining Ventura.
Channel Islands Harbor is positioned on the south shore of Oxnard and is nicknamed the "Gateway to the Channel Islands" because of the high number of operations that sail to the islands out of the harbor.
Oxnard Airport is a general aviation airport inside the town/city that is owned and directed by the County of Ventura.
Oxnard Transit Center The Oxnard Transit Center serves as a primary transit core for the city, as well as the west county.
The Coast Starlight, that travels from Los Angeles to Seattle stops twice a day (once going north, once going south), make the west Ventura County stop here (east county stop is Simi Valley).
Operates small-town bus service in the town/city of Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ventura, and Ojai.
Its core is the Oxnard Transit Center. The Conejo Connection does not go to the Oxnard Transit Center, but instead stops at the Esplanade Shopping Center near Highway 101. VISTA also operates the Coastal Connection through Ventura towards Santa Barbara and Goleta from the Esplanade. A lesser transfer center sits at the Centerpoint Mall on C Street, which Gold Coast Transit sends most of their South Oxnard and Port Hueneme routes out from.
VISTA also operates the Oxnard-CSUCI route that goes to California State University, Channel Islands and Oxnard College from this transfer center. Cesar Chavez: farm worker, political activist and union leader, lived in the Colonia region of Oxnard amid his childhood.
Several streets and schools in the Oxnard region and encircling areas bear his name.
The Oxnard office opened in 1966, the year of a historic march from Delano to Sacramento. William Soo Hoo: propel as mayor of Oxnard in 1966-70 and considered the first Chinese-American political prestige of a primary California town/city and possibly the United States. Nao Takasugi: California State Assembly and mayor of Oxnard.
Jean Harris: credited with protecting Ormond Beach Wetlands and Oxnard State Beach.
Sonny Bono & Cher: Record producers, singers, actors; famous for Sonny & Cher pop duo and TV series, had a beach home in Oxnard Shores, Oxnard The most momentous developer in the Oxnard area.
Sonny Bono & Cher, actors, singers, had a beach home in Oxnard Shores, Oxnard.
Walter Brennan, actor, three-time winner of Academy Award, star of TV series The Real Mc - Coys and The Guns of Will Sonnett, died in Oxnard.
John Carradine, actor, lived in Oxnard for many years.
Lee Van Cleef, actor, died in Oxnard.
Know, has family and a beach home in Oxnard.
John Curtis Holmes, pornographic film star of the 1970s, had ashes scattered at sea off the coast of Oxnard in 1988.
Tim Curran: experienced surfer; graduated from Oxnard High School.
Lou Cvijanovich: winningest coach in California high school history; coached Santa Clara High School to 829 wins 1958 1999.
Justin De Fratus: relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, interval up in Oxnard, attended Rio Mesa High and Ventura Junior College.
Charles Dillon: wide receiver for Green Bay Packers; played for Ventura College and Washington State; graduated from Hueneme High School in '04 Dave Laut: retired shot putter; born in Findlay, Ohio, died August 27, 2009 in Oxnard.
Sergio Gabriel Martinez: boxer, based in Oxnard.
Ken Mc - Mullen: former Major League Baseball third baseman with the Los Angeles Dodgers; was born in Oxnard.
Mike Parrott, experienced baseball player and coach; born in Oxnard.
Open; graduated from Oxnard High School. Josh Pinkard: no-charge safety for two-time nationwide champion University of Southern California football team; graduated from Hueneme High School.
Jacob Rogers: offensive tackle for the Denver Broncos, three-year starter and All-American at USC; graduated from Oxnard High School. Josh Towers: pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays; graduated from Hueneme High School and Oxnard College.
Steve Trachsel: pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles and four other MLB teams; was born in Oxnard and attended Hathaway Elementary.
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