San Juan Bautista, California San Juan Bautista Mission San Juan Bautista Mission San Juan Bautista Official seal of San Juan Bautista Location in San Benito County and the state of California Location in San Benito County and the state of California San Juan Bautista is positioned in the US San Juan Bautista - San Juan Bautista San Juan Bautista (English: "Saint John the Baptist") is a town/city in San Benito County, California, United States.
The town/city of San Juan Bautista was titled after Mission San Juan Bautista.
San Juan is primarily an agricultural town.
The Juan Bautista de Anza House, the General Jose Castro home, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District are National Historic Landmarks.
El Teatro Campesino is based in San Juan Bautista.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), 99.94% of it territory and 0.06% of it water.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, San Juan Bautista has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the region around San Juan Bautista was populated by the Mutsunes, a branch of the Ohlone Indians.
In 1797, the Spanish Franciscan priest fray Fermin de Lasuen established Mission San Juan Bautista to facilitate the conversion of the native citizens to Catholicism; in the process, he claimed the territory for the Spanish Empire.
By 1834, a town known as San Juan de Castro has sprouted up around the mission.
After defeating Micheltorena and his ill-equipped "Cholo" army, Jose Antonio Castro was appointed Comandante General of California, in charge of the Mexican Army's operations in California.
From San Juan Bautista, Castro ordered the army against potential foreign incursions.
When Castro told Fremont he would have to leave the country, the situation came close to war when he obstinately refused to leave and instead set up a base on Gavilan Peak, overlooking the town of San Juan.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Juan Bautista had a populace of 1,862.
The ethnic makeup of San Juan Bautista was 1,125 (60.4%) White, 12 (0.6%) African American, 58 (3.1%) Native American, 52 (2.8%) Asian, 2 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 494 (26.5%) from other competitions, and 119 (6.4%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 1,857 citizens (99.7% of the population) lived in homeholds, 5 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 681 homeholds, out of which 229 (33.6%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 345 (50.7%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 86 (12.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 48 (7.0%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 431 citizens (23.1%) under the age of 18, 178 citizens (9.6%) aged 18 to 24, 476 citizens (25.6%) aged 25 to 44, 556 citizens (29.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 221 citizens (11.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
There were 567 homeholds out of which 36.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.1% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 31.4% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 12.7% of families and 15.5% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 23.2% of those under age 18 and 12.2% of those age 65 or over.
In the California State Legislature, San Juan Bautista is in the 12th Senate District, represented by Republican Anthony Cannella, and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna Caballero. In the United States House of Representatives, San Juan Bautista is in California's 20th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jimmy Panetta. Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943 51, born in San Juan Mission San Juan Bautista "San Juan Bautista".
"San Juan Bautista, California Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - San Juan Bautista city".
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