Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita, California City of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita's Canyon Country in September 2008.
Santa Clarita's Canyon Country in September 2008.
Flag of Santa Clarita, California Flag Official seal of Santa Clarita, California Location of Santa Clarita in California and Los Angeles County Location of Santa Clarita in California and Los Angeles County Santa Clarita is positioned in the US Santa Clarita - Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, officially the City of Santa Clarita, is the third biggest city in Los Angeles County, California, and the seventeenth biggest in the state of California. The town/city has took in a number of unincorporated areas, contributing to the large populace increase.
It is positioned about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and is situated in most of the Santa Clarita Valley.
Santa Clarita was ranked by Money periodical in 2006 as 18th of the top 100 places to live. Santa Clarita was incorporated in December 1987 as the union of four unincorporated communities, Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus, and Valencia, most of which are situated on the territory of the former Rancho San Francisco. The four communities retain separate identities, and it is common for inhabitants to refer to a specific neighborhood when asked where they are from.
Santa Clarita is bounded on the west by the Golden State Freeway (I-5).
The Antelope Valley Freeway (SR-14) runs northeast-southwest through an irregular east border, and the Newhall Pass is the city's southernmost point.
Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park and Stevenson Ranch are both generally associated with Santa Clarita, but are positioned just outside the town/city limits.
The Santa Clarita welcome sign in May 2010.
A typical stretch of Valencia Boulevard in the Valencia part of Santa Clarita in July 2004.
Santa Clarita was incorporated in December 1987, but its history stretches back a several centuries.
The valley and the settlement later became known as "little Santa Clara" in deference to the Northern California mission and town/city of Santa Clara, California.
In time, "little Santa Clara" became "Santa Clarita." After his death, Newhall's heirs incorporated the Newhall Land and Farming Company, which oversaw the evolution of the communities that now make up Santa Clarita.
Filming in Santa Clarita began shortly after the turn of the 20th century with a veritable Who's Who of actors, including William S.
Hart and Carey made their homes in the Santa Clarita Valley; today both are directed as county parks.
The Santa Clarita Valley was the scene of the second worst disaster in California's history in terms of lives lost, known as the "worst civil engineering failure of the 20th century".
Within undivided Santa Clarita town/city limits, the present day site of the Westfield Valencia Town Center mall would have been buried beneath muck, mud and debris.
After floundered attempts to form a town/city and at least two floundered attempts to form a separate county, the citizens of the Santa Clarita Valley finally incorporated the City of Santa Clarita at 4:30 PM on December 15, 1987 after voting in favor of incorporation by a margin of two to one in that year's general election. The other proposed name for the new city, which was narrowly defeated, was "City of the Canyons." Santa Clarita, as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau, has an region of 62.16 square miles (161.0 km2), of which 62.10 square miles (160.8 km2) is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) (0.099%) is water.
Santa Clarita is near the San Fernando fault zone and was affected by the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, also known as the Sylmar quake.
Santa Clarita has hiking trails in the encircling mountain peaks including Agua Dulce Canyon, Central Park, East Walker Ranch, Elsmere Canyon, Golden Valley Ranch, Haskell Canyon Open Space, Quigley Canyon, and Wildwood Canyon. Santa Clarita is inside a Mediterranean climate zone, characterized by warm and dry days most of the year with mild-moist winters.
Climate data for Santa Clarita, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Santa Clarita had a populace of 176,320.
The ethnic makeup of Santa Clarita was 125,005 (70.9%) White (56.1% Non-Hispanic White), 5,623 (3.2%) African American, 1,013 (0.6%) Native American, 15,025 (8.5%) Asian (3.4% Filipino, 1.7% Korean, 0.8% Indian, 0.8% Chinese, 0.6% Japanese, 0.3% Vietnamese, 0.9% Other Asian), 272 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 21,169 (12.0%) from other competitions, and 8,213 (4.7%) from two or more competitions.
In terms of age, the populace included 46,180 citizens (26.2%) under the age of 18, 17,565 citizens (10.0%) aged 18 to 24, 47,788 citizens (27.1%) aged 25 to 44, 47,936 citizens (27.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 16,851 citizens (9.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the Enumeration Bureau, Santa Clarita had a median homehold income of $82,607, with 9.5% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.3% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 33.6% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The City of Santa Clarita is a general law town/city and as such is governed by a Council/Manager form of government.
According to the city's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $196.9 million in Revenues, $160.5 million in expenditures, $1,191.8 million in total assets, and $135.3 million in total liabilities. In the State Senate, Santa Clarita is split between the 21st Senate District, represented by Republican Scott Wilk, and the 27th Senate District, represented by Democrat Henry Stern.
In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Clarita is in California's 25th congressional district, represented by Republican Steve Knight. Overlooking Santa Clarita from Ed Davis Park in Towsley Canyon.
The City of Santa Clarita's leadership has placed a before ity on offering recreational facilities and programs since incorporation.
There is a recreation center in Canyon Country that includes an aquatic park with wading, diving, and Olympic swimming pools along with a bicycle/skatepark, improve swimming pools in both Newhall and Canyon Country and a improve center in downtown Newhall.
The Santa Clarita Marathon is held annually in November.
Santa Clarita was picked to be the end of Stage 6 in the AMGEN Tour of California, in 2007.
Santa Clarita was also picked to be the end of Stage 6 and the beginning of the final stage, Stage 7, in 2008.
There are a several enhance and private golf courses in Santa Clarita, including, TPC Valencia, Valencia Country Club, and Vista Valencia.
Santa Clarita does not have its own police or fire departments.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) operates the Santa Clarita Valley Station in Santa Clarita and provides small-town police protection for the city. The town/city contracts with the Los Angeles County Fire Department for fire protection.
The agency has eight fire stations in Santa Clarita, but with the increasing expansion in the region new stations are planned.
Princess Cruises and Mann - Kind are based in Santa Clarita.
Princess Cruises command posts in Santa Clarita According to the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for the fiscal year ending June 2014, the top employers in the town/city are: Santa Clarita has experienced momentous new home expansion led by various builders such as K.
Common trees in these developments include deciduous species of ash, birch, sweetgum and sycamore which give Santa Clarita some of the best fall colors in southern California and make the town suitable for recording mid-latitude settings.
The City of Santa Clarita and encircling communities are served by a several small-town media properties.
The major daily newspaper, The Santa Clarita Valley Signal was established in 1919 and appreciates a weekday circulation of 10,454 and a Sunday circulation of 11,598. The journal focuses almost exclusively on small-town news, sports, entertainment and features.
Additionally, Santa Clarita is served by the Los Angeles Daily News.
The Daily News primarily focuses on news, sports and entertainment stories in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles, but also covers Santa Clarita periodically.
Daily News circulation numbers inside the Santa Clarita Valley are not known.
The Santa Clarita Valley is exclusively served by one airways broadcast: AM-1220 KHTS.
In addition to KHTS, the City of Santa Clarita and its encircling communities are indirectly served by a number of primary market Los Angeles FM and AM airways broadcasts, though inhabitants often complain that radio reception in the valley is poor due to the encircling hillsides.
There are also a several other Internet Based Radio Stations that serve the enhance in the Santa Clarita Valley.
All small-town programming for Santa Clarita is carried on a single public-access tv cable TV channel, which is directed by SCVTV, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.
It is available to Time Warner Cable customers throughout the Santa Clarita Valley on Channel 20 and to AT&T U-verse customers under small-town programming (Channel 99/Santa Clarita).
SCVTV carries public, educational and government programming, including Santa Clarita City Council and Planning Commission meetings, history shows, high school and college news programs, talk shows, football games.
There are no commercial over-the-air tv stations in the Santa Clarita Valley.
The town/city is part of the Los Angeles media market.
Santa Clarita is serviced by Interstate 5 on the side of the city.
State Route 126 terminates at Interstate 5, where it goes west to Ventura, passing through Fillmore and Santa Paula.
City of Santa Clarita Transit provides extensive bus service inside the Santa Clarita Valley and to/from North Hollywood in the San Fernando Valley.
City of Santa Clarita Transit is directed by MV Transportation, Inc.
Under contract with the town/city of Santa Clarita. On weekdays, City of Santa Clarita Transit operates commuter buses to/from Burbank, downtown Los Angeles, North Hollywood (operates seven days per week), Warner Center, Van Nuys, and Century City.
Also on weekdays when school is in session, City of Santa Clarita Transit operates supplemental school-day service with routes and scheduled stops designed around various school sites inside the Santa Clarita Valley.
City of Santa Clarita Transit also operates Dial-A-Ride service for seniors and the disabled.
The service allows for pick-up and drop-off at any address inside the City of Santa Clarita and inside a three-quarter mile radius of the nearest fixed route bus stop in unincorporated areas.
City of Santa Clarita Transit operates weekdays from 4:15 a.m.
City of Santa Clarita Transit has installed GPS transponders on its entire fleet, making it easy to track buses.
This allows customers to go on the City of Santa Clarita Transit's website to see the arrival time at a particular stop.
City of Santa Clarita Transit was formerly known as Santa Clarita Transit.
Metrolink provides commuter passenger train service to the Santa Clarita Valley along its Antelope Valley Line which runs from Lancaster to Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles, where transfers can be made to destinations in Southern California and the rest of the nation.
Metrolink services 3 stations in the city, Via Princessa Station in the Canyon Country community, Santa Clarita Station which is centrally positioned in the town/city and serves most of the Valencia and Saugus communities, and the Newhall Station which serves the improve of Newhall.
Bicyclists can ride from the easterly end of the town/city in Canyon Country along a paved path which is autonomous from automobile traffic all the way to Valencia on the Santa Clara River Trail.
This path closely follows the Santa Clara River and Soledad Canyon Road.
In 2007, the League of American Bicyclists awarded Santa Clarita its "bronze" designation as a "bicycle friendly community." Grew up in Santa Clarita.
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Co-owner of Santa Clarita Mercedes Benz dealership.
Buck Mc - Keon: Congressman and first mayor of Santa Clarita after the town/city incorporated in 1987.
Co-owner of Santa Clarita Mercedes-Benz dealer.
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Del Shannon: singer / songwriter of 1961 #1 hit "Runaway", member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; died in Santa Clarita. Graduated from Canyon High School.
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Santa Clarita Diet, a 2017 Netflix Original tv series set in Santa Clarita, CA "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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"Vote Santa Clarita".
Bob Kellar, Santa Clarita.
"Santa Clarita councilman stands by 'proud racist' remark".
"Santa Clarita Councilman Tells Anti-Immigrant Protesters He's a Proud Racist".
"'Proud racist' Santa Clarita council member met by fight-back boss - Liberation News".
City of Santa Clarita Website Retrieved 2012-02-29 "Santa Clarita Valley Station." "City of Santa Clarita Transit".
"Santa Clarita Named Bicycle Friendly Community".
"Tena, Ecuador" at Santa Clarita Sister Cities (SCVIP) website.
"Sariaya, Philippines" at Santa Clarita Sister Cities (SCVIP) website.
"'Santa Clarita Diet' brings consideration to city".
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Santa Clarita.
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