Santa Barbara, California City of Santa Barbara The coastline of Santa Barbara Flag of Santa Barbara, California Flag Official seal of Santa Barbara, California Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Location in Santa Barbara County and the state of California Santa Barbara is positioned in the US Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara County Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (Spanish for "Saint Barbara") is the governmental center of county of Santa Barbara County in the U.S.
Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the town/city has been promoted as the "American Riviera". As of 2014, the town/city had an estimated populace of 91,196, up from 88,410 in 2010, making it the second most crowded city in the county after Santa Maria while the adjoining urban area, which includes the metros/cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate populace of 220,000.
In 2004, the service zone accounted for fully 35% of small-town employment. Education in particular is well represented, with four establishments of higher learning on the south coast (the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, Westmont College, and Antioch University).
The Santa Barbara Airport serves the city, as does Amtrak.
Highway 101 joins the Santa Barbara region with Los Angeles to the southeast and San Francisco to the northwest.
Main article: History of Santa Barbara, California Evidence for a Paleoindian existence includes a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the Santa Barbara County coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man, found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Chumash lived on the south coast of Santa Barbara County at the time of the first European explorations. The present-day region of Santa Barbara City College was the village of Mispu; the site of the El Bano pool (along west beach, was the village of Syukhtun, chief Yanonalit's large village positioned between Bath and Chapala streets; Amolomol was at the mouth of Mission Creek; and Swetete, above the bird refuge. Mission Santa Barbara, known as "the Queen of the Missions," was established in 1786.
Portuguese explorer Joao Cabrilho (Spanish: Cabrillo), sailing for the Kingdom of Spain, sailed through what is now called the Santa Barbara Channel in 1542, anchoring briefly in the area.
In 1602, Spanish maritime explorer Sebastian Vizcaino gave the name "Santa Barbara" to the channel and also to one of the Channel Islands. The Santa Barbara Mission was established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4, 1786.
The Chumash workers assembled a connection between the canyon creek and the Santa Barbara Mission water fitness through the use of a dam and an aqueduct. During the following decades, many of the natives died of diseases such as smallpox, against which they had no natural immunity. Santa Barbara street names reflect this time reconstructionas well.
These territory grants to small-town notable families mark the beginning of the "Rancho Period" in California and Santa Barbara history.
First visited Santa Barbara and wrote about the culture and citizens of Santa Barbara in his book Two Years Before the Mast.
Mural Room (formerly Board of Supervisors' Hearing Room) inside the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.
Wall murals depict the history of Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara fell bloodlessly to a battalion of American soldiers under John C.
Change came quickly after Santa Barbara's acquisition by the United States.
English gradually supplanted Spanish as the language of daily life, becoming the language of official record in 1870. The first newspaper, the Santa Barbara Gazette, was established in 1855. In 1887 the barns finally went through to Los Angeles, and in 1901 to San Francisco: Santa Barbara was now easily accessible by territory and by sea, and subsequent evolution was brisk. Just before the turn of the 20th century, petroleum was identified at the Summerland Oil Field, and the region along the beach east of Santa Barbara sprouted various petroleum derricks and piers for drilling offshore.
This was the first offshore petroleum evolution in the world; petroleum drilling offshore would turn into a contentious practice in the Santa Barbara area, which continues to the present day. Flying A and the other lesser small-town studios produced approximately 1,200 films amid their tenure in Santa Barbara, of which approximately 100 survive. The new Santa Barbara County Courthouse was dedicated on August 14, 1929.
The magnitude 6.3 earthquake of June 29, 1925, was the first destructive earthquake in California since the 1906 San Francisco quake, finished much of downtown Santa Barbara and killed 13 citizens .
Under the leadership of Pearl Chase, many of the city's famous buildings rose as part of the stone process, including the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, sometimes praised as the "most beautiful enhance building in the United States." During World War II, Santa Barbara was home to Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, and Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara at the harbor.
On February 23, 1942, not long after the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the Japanese submarine I-17 surfaced offshore and lobbed 16 shells at the Ellwood Oil Field, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Santa Barbara, in the first state of war attack by an enemy power on the U.S.
Many Santa Barbara inhabitants fled, and territory values plummeted to historic lows.
After the war many of the servicemen who had seen Santa Barbara returned to stay.
The culminating disaster, and one of the formative affairs in the undivided surroundingal movement, was the blowout at Union Oil's Platform A on the Dos Cuadras Field, about eight miles (13 km) southeast of Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Channel, on January 28, 1969.
Two legislative consequences of the spill in the next year were the passages of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); locally, outraged people formed GOO (Get Oil Out). Santa Barbara's company improve strove to attract evolution until the surge in the anti-growth boss in the 1970s.
While the slower expansion preserved the character of life for most inhabitants and inhibited the urban sprawl notorious in the Los Angeles basin, housing in the Santa Barbara region was in short supply, and prices soared: in 2006, only six percent of inhabitants could afford a median-value home.
As a result, many citizens who work in Santa Barbara commute from adjoining, more affordable areas, such as Santa Maria, Lompoc, and Ventura.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, a several destructive fires affected Santa Barbara: the 1964 Coyote Fire, which burned 67,000 acres (270 km2) of backcountry along with 106 homes; the smaller, but quickly moving, Sycamore Fire in 1977, which burned 200 homes; the disastrous 1990 Painted Cave Fire, which incinerated over 500 homes in only a several hours, amid an intense Sundowner wind event; the November 2008 Tea Fire, which finished 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Montecito; and the 2009 Jesusita Fire that burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km2) and finished 160 homes above the San Roque region of Santa Barbara. Looking north from a Santa Barbara street toward "the Riviera" and the Santa Ynez Mountains beyond Santa Barbara is positioned about 90 miles (145 km) WNW of Los Angeles, along the Pacific coast.
This stretch of coast along southern Santa Barbara County is sometimes referred to as "The American Riviera", presumably because its geography and climate are similar to that of areas along the northern Mediterranean Sea coast (especially in southern France) known as the Riviera.
Nearer to town, directly east and adjoining to Mission Santa Barbara, is an east-west ridge known locally as "the Riviera," traversed by a road called "Alameda Padre Serra" (shortened APS, which translates to "Father Serra's pathway").
The high official figures for water is due to the extension of the town/city limit into the ocean, including a strip of town/city reaching out into the sea and inland again to keep the Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) inside the town/city boundary.
Santa Barbara experiences a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen: Csb) characteristic of coastal California.
Climate data for Santa Barbara, California (1981 2010 Normals) The town/city of Santa Barbara is situated on a coastal plain between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea.
Downtown Santa Barbara is situated in a floodplain between two primary geologic faults, the Mission Ridge Fault Zone to the north and the Mesa Fault to the south.
Neither is well exposed, with their locations being inferred from topography, springs, seeps, and well logs. The Mesa Fault continues southeast offshore into the Santa Barbara Channel; the portion of the fault offshore is believed to have been responsible for the destructive earthquake of 1925. The Mission Ridge Fault trends east-west, being titled the More Ranch Fault west of Santa Barbara, and forms the northern boundary of the uplands which include Isla Vista, More Mesa, and the Hope Ranch Hills. Three primary sedimentary bedrock units underlie the coastal plain: the Monterey Formation, the Sisquoc Formation, and the Santa Barbara Formation.
The Santa Barbara Formation is one of the chief units in the aquifer underlying the city.
The first Monterey-style adobe in California was assembled on State Street of Santa Barbara by the wealthy merchant Alpheus Thompson. The dominant architectural themes of Santa Barbara are the Spanish Colonial Revival and the related Mission Revival style, encouraged through design guidelines adopted by town/city leaders after the 1925 earthquake finished much of the downtown commercial district.
The Mesa stretches 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from Santa Barbara City College on the east to Arroyo Burro County Beach (or "Hendry's/The Pit" to locals) on the west.
A prominent spot as an entry-point for weekend foothill hiking, it is one of the most rustically beautiful, yet fire-prone areas of Santa Barbara due to heavy natural vegetation.
The Riviera encompasses an ocean-facing hillside and back hillside extending for approximately two miles, with the north side extending from Foothill Road to Sycamore Canyon Road, and the south side from the Santa Barbara Mission to North Salinas Street.
The ribbon-like Alameda Padre Serra serves as the principal entry point from the Mission and the City of Santa Barbara.
Most of the topography of the Riviera is mostly steep, making it especially noteworthy for homes with outstanding views of the City of Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean.
The Westside ("west of State Street") lies dominantly in the lowlands between State Street and the Mesa, including Highway 101, and also reaches down to Cliff Drive, incorporating Santa Barbara City College.
The Eastside ("east of State Street") is generally the region east of State to the base of the Riviera, and includes Santa Barbara Junior High School, Santa Barbara High School, and the Santa Barbara Bowl.
The Waterfront comprises roughly commercial and tourist-oriented company structures along Cabrillo Blvd including Stearns Wharf, the Santa Barbara Harbor and the breakwater, and extending East toward the Bird Refuge and West along Shoreline Drive above the SBCC ground West.
Local fishermen unloading the day's catch in Santa Barbara Harbor.
This region is said to be a constant 5 degrees warmer than the coastal areas, due to its greater distance from the ocean than other Santa Barbara neighborhoods, and being separated from the sea by a low range of hills to the south, occupied by the Mesa and Hope Ranch.
City of Santa Barbara 2010 U.S Enumeration The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Santa Barbara had a populace of 88,410.
The ethnic makeup of Santa Barbara was 66,411 (75.1%) White, 1,420 (1.6%) African American, 892 (1.0%) Native American, 3,062 (3.5%) Asian (1.0% Chinese, 0.6% Filipino, 0.5% Japanese, 0.4% Korean, 0.4% Indian, 0.2% Vietnamese, 0.4% other), 116 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 13,032 (14.7%) from other competitions, and 3,477 (3.9%) from two or more competitions.
Motel 6 was started in Santa Barbara in 1962.
As of June 2014, the principal employers in the southern Santa Barbara County were: 1 University of California, Santa Barbara 10,403 2 County of Santa Barbara 4,652 4 Santa Barbara City College 2,066 5 Santa Barbara Unified School District 1,988 6 City of Santa Barbara 1,716 9 Santa Barbara County Education Office 929 Other primary employers include Mission Linen Supply, Jordano's, the Santa Barbara Biltmore and San Ysidro Ranch, Westmont College, Mentor, Commission Junction, Fess Parker's Doubletree, Belmond El Encanto and QAD. Santa Barbara contains various performing art venues, including the 2,000 seat Arlington Theatre, which is the biggest indoor performance venue in Santa Barbara and site of the annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Urton in 1924, but with the theatre remodeled and reopened in March 2008; and the Santa Barbara Bowl, a 4,562 seat amphitheatre used for outside concerts, nestled in a picturesque canyon at the base of the Riviera.
Santa Barbara Harbor Outdoor shops in downtown Santa Barbara Santa Barbara is a year-round tourist destination famous for its fair weather, downtown beaches, and Spanish architecture.
Mission Santa Barbara, "The Queen of the Missions," is positioned on a rise about two miles (3 km) inland from the harbor, and is maintained as an active place of worship, sightseeing stop, and nationwide historic landmark.
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, a red tiled Spanish-Moorish structure, provides a sweeping view of the downtown region from its open air tower.
The Presidio of Santa Barbara, a Spanish military installation and chapel assembled in 1782, was central to the town's early evolution and remains an icon of the city's colonial roots.
For over 40 years, the Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show has been held on Cabrillo Blvd., east of Stearns Wharf and along the beach, attracting thousands of citizens to see artwork made by artists and crafts citizens that live in Santa Barbara county.
In recent years, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, another small-town non-profit, has also turn into a primary draw bringing over 50,000 attendees amid what is usually Santa Barbara's slow season in late January.
Surfing is as much a part of Santa Barbara culture as art.
Stearns Wharf Next to to Santa Barbara Harbor, features shops, a several restaurants, and the newly rebuilt Ty Warner Sea Center.
Rafael Gonzalez House Adobe residence of the alcalde of Santa Barbara in the 1820s, and a National Historic Landmark.
Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree a enormous Moreton Bay Fig, 80 feet (24 m) tall, which has one of the biggest total shaded areas of any tree in North America 307) Also the locale of the Santa Barbara News Press.
Covarrubias Adobe Built in 1817; adjoining to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum on Santa Barbara Street.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), positioned on State Street, features nationally recognized collections and special exhibitions of global importance.
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), positioned on the top floor of Paseo Nuevo shopping mall, is a non-profit, non-collecting exhibition dedicated to the exhibition, education, and cultivation of the arts of our time.
Other art venues include the University Art Museum on the University of California at Santa Barbara Campus, various private arcades, and a wide range of art and photography shows.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is positioned immediately behind the Santa Barbara Mission in a complex of Mission-style buildings set in a park-like campus.
The Santa Barbara Historical Museum is positioned on De La Guerra Street and offers no-charge admission.
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is positioned at 113 Harbor Way (the former Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara) on the waterfront.
Two open air exhibitions here are Lotusland and Casa del Herrero, exemplifying the American Country Place era in Santa Barbara.
Prominent sports in Santa Barbara include the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.
Santa Barbara has many parks, ranging from small spaces inside the urban surrounding to large, semi-wilderness areas that remain inside the town/city limits.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, which contains a diverse compilation of plants from around California; it is in Mission Canyon, directly north of the city.
In addition to these parks, there are other hiking trails in Santa Barbara.
All of Santa Barbara County falls into California's 24th congressional district.
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara and the immediately adjoining region is home to a several colleges and universities: University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara City College Paul Mitchell the School Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Business College Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law Secondary and Primary School students go to the Santa Barbara and Hope precinct schools.
The following schools are on the south coast of Santa Barbara County, including the metros/cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, and adjoining unincorporated areas.
Santa Barbara High School, 9 12 Providence Santa Barbara, 9 12 Marymount of Santa Barbara, JK-8 Santa Barbara Junior High School, 7 8 Santa Barbara Middle School, 6 9 Santa Barbara Montessori School, Pre-K to 8 Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, K-8 Providence Santa Barbara ( K-8 formerly known as Santa Barbara Christian School), K-12 Santa Barbara has two adjudicated, general circulation newspapers: The daily Santa Barbara News-Press (sold by the New York Times Company in 2000 to small-town resident Wendy P.
The Santa Barbara Independent, a weekly with 40,000 audited circulation. The following TV stations broadcast in Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Internet TV, and TV Santa Barbara; Voice-17 (Public-access television) and Culture-71 Arts & Education (formerly owned by Cox Communications).
Santa Monica-based NPR airways broadcast KCRW can be heard in Santa Barbara at 106.9 MHz, and San Luis Obispo-based NPR station KCBX at 89.5 FM and 90.9 FM.
The California Lutheran University directed NPR station KCLU (102.3 FM, 1340 AM) based in Thousand Oaks in Ventura County also serves Santa Barbara and has reporters covering the city.
The only non-commercial airways broadcast based in Santa Barbara is KCSB-FM (91.9 FM) owned by the University of California, Santa Barbara which uses it as part of its educational mission.
Santa Barbara is bisected by U.S.
The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) provides small-town bus service athwart the city, and Greyhound bus stations are positioned downtown.
Santa Barbara has an extensive network of bike trails and other resources for cyclists, and the League of American Bicyclists recognizes Santa Barbara as a Silver Level city.
Santa Barbara Airbus offers service to LAX from Santa Barbara and Goleta.
In addition, Santa Barbara Car Free promotes visiting and seeking the region without use of a car.
Often chosen as a winter training locale for experienced cycling squads and snowbirds alike, Santa Barbara has many great cycling routes and a several notable climbs, including Gibraltar Road and Old San Marcos/Painted Cave.
A bike path and route also joins the University of California, Santa Barbara to the downtown area, passing through Goleta and Hope Ranch along the way.
Bike rentals are a great way for tourists to view Santa Barbara and the encircling area, with resource website "Best Bike Rentals and Routes" offering links to all the primary rental companies in the area.
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