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San Simeon (ZIP Code: 93452; region code 805) is a town and census-designated place on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California.
It is positioned seven miles north of San Simeon on Highway 1.
Prehistorically the small-town region was inhabited by the Chumash citizens , who settled the coastal San Luis Obispo region approximately 10,000 to 11,000 BC, including a large village south of San Simeon at Morro Creek. San Simeon was established as an asistencia ("sub-mission") to Mission San Miguel Arcangel, established in 1797 and positioned to the east athwart the Santa Lucia Range.
San Simeon was titled for Rancho San Simeon, although the town-site is actually north of that rancho, on the former Rancho Piedra Blanca, a Mexican territory grant given in 1840 to Jose de Jesus Pico.
The first Europeans to settle in the immediate region near the bay of San Simeon were Portuguese shore whalers under the command of Captain Joseph Clark (born Machado) from the Cape Verde Islands, around 1864. In 1869, Captain Clark assembled a wharf near the point for his whaling station.
In 1953, the Hearst Corporation donated the William Randolph Hearst Memorial Beach, including the Hearst Pier, to San Luis Obispo County.
It is presently part of Hearst San Simeon State Park. The present-day San Simeon pier was assembled in 1957. The name San Simeon also refers to some geologic structures of the area, especially elements of the coastal Jurassic Age landforms and ophiolite mineral formations. The initial townsite of San Simeon is at San Simeon Bay, and was the meaningful 19th-century shipping point with the successive wharves that were built.
San Simeon Acres, about four miles south of the initial townsite at the mouth of Pico Creek, and so about halfway between old San Simeon and Cambria, was established in the 1950s.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Simeon had a populace of 462.
The ethnic makeup of San Simeon was 270 (58.4%) White, 4 (0.9%) African American, 5 (1.1%) Native American, 9 (1.9%) Asian, 2 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 160 (34.6%) from other competitions, and 12 (2.6%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 106 citizens (22.9%) under the age of 18, 31 citizens (6.7%) aged 18 to 24, 112 citizens (24.2%) aged 25 to 44, 130 citizens (28.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 83 citizens (18.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: San Simeon, California Shore Whaling at San Simeon Bay by Robert C.
San Simeon History & Timeline San Simeon Acres "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - San Simeon CDP".
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