Pacifica, California Location in San Mateo County and the state of California Location in San Mateo County and the state of California Pacifica, California is positioned in the US Pacifica, California Pacifica is a town/city in San Mateo County, California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay.
The City of Pacifica is spread along a six-mile (9.7-kilometre) stretch of coastal beaches and hills in north central California.
Surfing at Rockaway Beach, Pacifica 2005 marked the opening of the top ranked Pacifica Skateboard Park.
Pacifica is also a prominent mountain biking destination, with many trails crossing the hillsides that surround the city, including Pedro Mountain Road, Sweeney Ridge, and areas of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Fishermen incessant the small-town beaches and the Pacifica Pier, often catching Striped Bass and Salmon.
Pacifica is also a prominent place to hike, with many trails that wind along the beaches and bluffs, including Mori Point, San Pedro Valley County Park, the Sanchez Adobe, Milagra Ridge, and the privately owned Pacifica quarry.
For live small-town theater and performing arts, Pacifica Spindrift Players is a small-town and prominent favorite, in addition to Pacifica Performances which regularly provides both musical presentations and performing arts as well.
Pacifica is also home to the Sharp Park Golf Course, which was designed in 1931 by architect Alister Mac - Kenzie.
The world class bromeliad nursery, Shelldance Orchid Gardens is positioned just off Highway 1 in Pacifica, adjoining to the Sweeney Ridge hiking trailhead.
Pacifica is divided into roughly twelve distinct neighborhoods from north to south: Aerial view of the Linda Mar (San Pedro Valley) neighborhood of Pacifica, California.
Linda Mar, Linda Mar Valley, (formerly Pedro Valley or San Pedro Valley) in the south.
Park Pacifica in south east portions of the town/city (called the Back of the Valley).
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Pacifica had a populace of 37,234.
The ethnic makeup of Pacifica was 55.6% white, 16.8% (6,243) Hispanic or Latino of any race, 976 (2.6%) African American, 206 (0.6%) Native American, 7,230 (19.4%) Asian, 315 (0.8%) Pacific Islander, 1,703 (4.6%) from other competitions, and 2,638 (7.1%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 7,707 citizens (20.7%) under the age of 18, 2,842 citizens (7.6%) aged 18 to 24, 10,011 citizens (26.9%) aged 25 to 44, 12,155 citizens (32.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 4,519 citizens (12.1%) who were 65 years of age or older.
26,567 citizens (71.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 10,485 citizens (28.2%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 32.8% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The earliest person to ever live in Pacifica is Rose G.
1 Pacifica School District 349 3 City of Pacifica 225 Pacifica State Beach is just left of center.
Pacifica straddles San Pedro Creek which flows from the slope of Sweeney Ridge.
The far easterly portion of Pacifica includes San Andreas Creek which flows down the easterly slope of Sweeney Ridge.
Pacifica has a cool summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb) typical of coastal areas of California. The National Weather Service has maintained a cooperative weather station in Pacifica since November 1, 1983.
No calculable snow flurry has been recorded since records began. The southeastern portions of the municipality, such as Park Pacifica, are known to be much sunnier than the rest of the city. A City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk are appointed and serve in support of the Council to enact the ordinances passed by the Council, which meets biweekly on the second and fourth Mondays of the month. As of August 1, 2011, the South San Francisco Police Department took over the Pacifica emergency calls dispatch. In the California State Legislature, Pacifica is in the 13th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill, and in the 22nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Kevin Mullin. In the United States House of Representatives, Pacifica is in California's 14th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jackie Speier. The Tribune is locally owned by Sherman Frederick who prints 13 weekly newspapers in Pacifica, Marin County and Nevada.
Pacifica Magazine presented by the award-winning Half Moon Bay Review, Pacifica Community Television, Pacifica's Emmy Award-winning small-town Public-access tv cable TV channel 26, has continuously directed for 30 years featuring improve based television.
Before European pioneer arrived, Pacifica was home to two momentous Ohlone Indian villages: Pruristac positioned at San Pedro Creek near present-day Adobe Drive, and Timigtac on Calera Creek in the Rockaway Beach neighborhood.
Pacifica is the locale of the earliest European discernment of the San Francisco Bay.
An expedition led by Gaspar de Portola sighted the bay by climbing the hills of Sweeney Ridge in Pacifica on October 31, 1769. Before then, earlier Spanish maritime explorers of the California coast (such as Juan Cabrillo and Sebastian Vizcaino) had missed the San Francisco Bay because heavy fog so incessantly shrouded the entrance of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean (the Golden Gate).
Sighting the San Francisco Bay accelerated the Spanish colonization of Alta California because it was the only large, safe, centrally positioned harbor on the Alta California coast.
In the Spanish era, Pacifica was the site of the San Pedro Valley Mission Outpost (1786 1793) of Mission Dolores.
The town/city is positioned on a part of the Mexican territory grant Rancho San Pedro given to Francisco Sanchez in 1839.
Located in Pacifica, the Sanchez Adobe is the earliest structure in San Mateo County.
Pacifica was incorporated in 1957, mostly recently in the history of San Mateo County, as the union of nine previously separate, unincorporated communities, including Edgemar, Sharp Park, Pacific Manor (or just Manor), Vallemar, Rockaway Beach and San Pedro Terrace-By-The-Sea, stops on the short lived Ocean Shore Railroad.
In 1960, the town/city seal was designed by resident Ralph Barkey, who was inspired by Ralph Stackpole's towering "Pacifica" statue produced for the 1939 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. The enhance elementary and middle school district, known as Pacifica School District, (formerly the Laguna Salada School District), consists of Vallemar, Cabrillo, Ingrid B.
Pacifica has one private high school and two enhance high schools which are part of the Jefferson Union High School District.
Oceana High School in the central part of the town/city while Terra Nova High School and Alma Heights Christian High School are in the south.
Many students in the northern part of Pacifica attend Jefferson High School or Westmoor High School close-by in adjoining Daly City.
Alma Heights Christian High School is a private high school positioned 5 minutes from prominent Linda Mar Beach.
High Schools in Pacifica San Mateo County Libraries, a member of the Peninsula Library System, operates the Pacifica-Sanchez Library and the Pacifica-Sharp Park Library. Category:People from Pacifica, California "California Cities by Incorporation Date" (Word).
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"City of Pacifica, California : COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT".
Pacifica Historic Weather Averages in California (94044).
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Pacifica City Council Approves Outsourcing Police Communication - S to South San Francisco | Public Safety Communications.
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Hunter, Chris; Drake, Bill; Pacifica Historical Society (2002).
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Pacifica, California - Cities in San Mateo County, California - Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area - Populated coastal places in California - Incorporated metros/cities and suburbs in California - Populated places established in 1957 - 1957 establishments in California
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