City of Poway Flag of Poway Flag Official seal of Poway Poway is positioned in the US Poway - Poway Poway / pa .e / is a town/city in San Diego County, California.
Originally an unincorporated improve in the county, Poway officially became a town/city on December 12, 1980.
Poway's non-urban roots[who?] gave rise to its slogan "The City in the Country".
Poway is positioned at 32 58 12 N 117 2 19 W (32.969895, 117.038479), which lies north of the town/city of San Diego and south of the town/city of Escondido.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 39.3 square miles (102 km2), of which 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.25%) is water.
3.1 Poway High School Artifacts such as arrowheads, spear points, metates, grinding stones, and pottery found along the bed of Poway Creek all indicate an early Diegueno presence.
Various pictographs adorn many of Poway's boulders, and undivided dating techniques suggest these paintings date to the 16th century and earlier. Poway's intact history began in the late 18th century, when padres from the Mission San Diego de Alcala kept cattle in the valley.
For approximately a century, Poway served as a stock range for the mission and small-town ranchos.
Few records of this time have survived, and not until 1894 and the inception of the Poway Progress did the town's history turn into a thing of record.
In 1887, about 800 citizens lived and farmed in Poway.
Poway has a creek and fertile soil, but the lack of easily available water inhibited the settlement from attracting large-scale farmers and the accompanying populace growth.
Not until 1954 did the town establish the Poway Municipal Water District, which utilizes water from the Colorado River Aqueduct to irrigate all of Poway's 10,000 acres (40 km2).
In 1980 Poway incorporated and officially became the City of Poway (nicknamed "the City in the Country") clean water a neighborhood of San Diego itself.
Poway no longer relies on agriculture for its major source of income and has instead transitioned into a residentiary improve for those who work for employers in and around the San Diego area.
According to a recent state government estimate, the populace of Poway has grown since that last census to 50,542. It justifies its nickname of the "City in the Country" despite its burgeoning populace because it has been designated a "Tree City" for the last decade.
In 2004, the City of Poway adopted the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, based out of close-by Camp Pendleton.
The pop-punk band Blink-182, Unwritten Law, and The Frights originated in Poway, California.
Although many inhabitants today mistake Poway for an old Western-style cowboy town, its initial roots lie in agriculture.
The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Westward migration, and accordingly many of Poway's first white pioneer came to farm.
Muscat grapes are beginning to ripen, and the San Diego market is getting a supply of the fine article Poway always produces.
The success of these crops depended on the annual winter rainfall, however, and so remained subject to variations in rain until the establishment of the Poway Municipal Water District in 1954.
Ironically, despite the relative success of these ventures, Poway ceased to exist as a farming town once the water needed to make it a true agricultural haven appeared.
The Community Church of Poway, the town's first church, has remained in operation since 1887, making it the home of worship with the longest continual operation in San Diego County .
Today, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Mormons constitute the majority of Poway's theological demographic. Living Way Church, a non-denominational Protestant church, through Berean Bible College, is the only church presently in Poway that offers bible college classes.
There are two Catholic Churches in Poway, St.
A Sikh temple, one of a several in San Diego County, is found in Poway.
Two Kingdom Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses are positioned in Poway.
There are nine congregations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints positioned in Poway that meet in three meetinghouses.
Poway established its school precinct in 1871, but did not have a schoolhouse until 1885, when a one-room school was assembled at Midland Road about a 2 3-minute walk south of the Templar's Hall.
In 1909, only three students from Poway graduated from high school.
Enrollment in the Poway School 1st 8th grades did not reach 100 until 1932.
Presently, the Poway Unified School District (PUSD) has grown to 25 elementary (Kindergarten to 5th grade), 6 middle (6th 8th grades), 6 high (9th 12th grades) schools, and even has a home-schooling program and a K 8 school.
Poway's transit history alongsides that of early California.
In 1888 the first stagecoach began to service the suburbs from San Diego to Escondido, including Poway.
The stage made one stop in town, at the Poway Post Office, and also bringed mail to the farmers who would wait along the road for its arrival.
The town/city of San Diego discontinued the stage line in 1912, when the advent of the automobile facilitated an easier and less time-consuming health of mail bringy.
Poway established a County Road Station in 1920, to petroleum and maintain the roads so that automobiles could use them with ease.
The road station remained in operation until 1961, when Poway accomplished an 80% paved road rate.
Poway's greatest change started in the 1950s when water came to the valley.
On January 29, 1954, an election was held on the formation of the Poway Municipal Water District, which passed with an overwhelming majority of 210 ayes to 32 nays.
In 1972 Poway Dam was assembled to furnish a dependable supply of water.
In 1959 the first subdivision homes were assembled and sold as Poway Valley Homes and Poway's populace began to climb.
On December 1, 1980, the City of Poway incorporated and the two districts, Poway Municipal Water and Pomerado County Water, became part of the City structure.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city covers an region of 39.2 square miles (102 km2), 99.78% of it land, and 0.22% of it water.
Climate data for Poway Poway High School Main article: Poway High School Poway High School operates as part of the Poway Unified School District.
The Poway High Varsity Football team, coached by Damian Gonzalez won the CIF San Diego Division I semi-finals in 2006 and won the CIF San Diego Division I title in 2007, going undefeated (12 0) for the first time in the school's history.
The Poway High Varsity Baseball team won the CIF Division I championship in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
The Poway High Girls Varsity Basketball team won the CIF Division I championship in 2008 and set a school record with 29 wins in 2009.
The Poway High School Choir department sends its top choirs (Die Lieders and Women's & Men's Ensembles) to compete nationally, acquiring top awards in various primary cities around the United States, including San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Illinois and Orlando, Florida.
Tom De - Longe of the bands Blink-182, Box Car Racer, and Angels & Airwaves attended Poway High School.
Many highly accomplished leaders attended Poway High School including biotechnology pioneer and acclaimed scientist David Goeddel.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Poway had a populace of 47,811.
The ethnic makeup of Poway was 36,781 (76.9%) White, 783 (1.6%) African American, 265 (0.6%) Native American, 4,853 (10.2%) Asian, 106 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 2,944 (6.2%) from other competitions, and 2,079 (4.3%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 11,948 citizens (25.0%) under the age of 18, 3,912 citizens (8.2%) aged 18 to 24, 10,496 citizens (22.0%) aged 25 to 44, 15,555 citizens (32.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,900 citizens (12.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
35,111 citizens (73.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 12,150 citizens (25.4%) lived in rental housing units.
The median income for a homehold in Poway is $92,083, and the median income for a family was $103,972, making it the 25th most expensive zip code in the United States (as of a 2007 estimate).
According to estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments, the median homehold income of Poway in 2005 was $96,474 (not adjusted for inflation).
Poway incorporated as a general law town/city in December 1980.
In the California State Legislature, Poway is in the 38th Senate District, represented by Republican Joel Anderson, and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Brian Maienschein. In the United States House of Representatives, Poway is in California's 52nd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI (partisan voting index) of D+2 and is represented by Democrat Scott Peters. 3 Poway Unified School District 1,285 Lake Poway as seen from a helicopter in 2012 Old Poway Park (Home to Poway-Midland Railroad & Poway Historical and Memorial Society) Poway Community Park Lake Poway Woodson Trail that leads to Potato Chip Rock in Poway.
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