Seal Beach, California
Seal Beach, California A pier in Seal Beach A pier in Seal Beach Official seal of Seal Beach, California Location of Seal Beach inside Orange County, California.
Location of Seal Beach inside Orange County, California.
Seal Beach, California is positioned in the US Seal Beach, California - Seal Beach, California Seal Beach is a town/city in Orange County, California.
Seal Beach is positioned in the westernmost corner of Orange County.
To the northwest, just athwart the border with Los Angeles County, lies the town/city of Long Beach and the adjoining San Pedro Bay.
To the southeast are Huntington Harbour, a neighborhood of Huntington Beach, and Sunset Beach, also part of Huntington Beach.
A majority of the city's acreage is devoted to the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach military base. Early on, the region that is now Seal Beach was known as "Anaheim Landing", as the boat landing and seaside recreation region named after the close-by town of Anaheim.
By the 20th century, it was known as Bay City, but there was already a Bay City positioned in Northern California.
When the time of incorporation on October 27, 1915, the town was titled Seal Beach.
The United States Navy's Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach was originally constructed amid World War II for loading, unloading, and storing of ammunition for the Pacific Fleet, and especially those US Navy warships home-ported in Long Beach and San Diego, California.
Seal Beach amusement park, 1920.
Main article: 2011 Seal Beach shooting The deadliest mass killing in Orange County history occurred in Seal Beach.
Eight citizens inside the salon and one person in the parking lot were shot, and only one victim survived. The suspect in the shooting, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, was arrested without incident and charged with eight counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. Prior to the shooting, there had been only one murder in Seal Beach amid the previous four years. Seal Beach is positioned at 33 45 33 N 118 4 57 W (33.759283, -118.082396). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.0 square miles (34 km2).
Seal Beach has a semi-arid climate (Koppen climate classification BSh) with Mediterranean characteristics.
Climate data for Seal Beach, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Seal Beach had a populace of 24,168.
The ethnic makeup of Seal Beach was 20,154 (83.4%) White (76.9% Non-Hispanic White), 279 (1.2%) African American, 65 (0.3%) Native American, 2,309 (9.6%) Asian, 58 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 453 (1.9%) from other competitions, and 850 (3.5%) from two or more competitions.
There were 13,017 homeholds, out of which 1,866 (14.3%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 4,891 (37.6%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 788 (6.1%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 283 (2.2%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 3,151 citizens (13.0%) under the age of 18, 1,176 citizens (4.9%) aged 18 to 24, 4,076 citizens (16.9%) aged 25 to 44, 6,513 citizens (26.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 9,252 citizens (38.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
17,689 citizens (73.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 6,254 citizens (25.9%) lived in rental housing units.
During 2009 2013, Seal Beach had a median homehold income of $51,242, with 9.9% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. In the city, the populace was spread out with 13.3% under the age of 18, 4.0% from 18 to 24, 21.5% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 37.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The primary employer in Seal Beach is The Boeing Company, employing roughly 1,000 citizens .
Boeing Homeland Security & Services (airport security, etc.) is based in Seal Beach and Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems (satellite systems and classified programs) is headquartered in Seal Beach.
6 Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach 150 The Lions Club Pancake Breakfast in April and its Fish Fry (started in 1943) in July are two of the biggest affairs in Seal Beach.
The Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce sponsors many affairs, including: a Classic Car Show in April, a Summer Concert series in July and August, the Christmas Parade in December along with Santa and the Reindeer.
The record label Mash Down Babylon Records is based in Seal Beach, directed out of a garage known as The Elizabethan.
Anaheim Landing (now Seal Beach), 1891.
On Electric Avenue where the barns tracks used to run, there is the Red Car Museum which features a restored Pacific Electric Railway Red Car. The Red Car street car tracks once passed through Seal Beach going south to the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach.
Going north into Long Beach a rider could then take the Red Cars through much of Los Angeles County. Seal Beach is also home to the Bay Theatre, which was a prominent venue for autonomous film and revival screenings.
The Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge is positioned on part of the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach.
With the loss and degradation of coastal wetlands in California, the remaining surrounding, including the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach and Upper Newport Bay in Newport Beach, has turn into much more meaningful for migrating and wintering shorebirds, waterfowl, and seabirds.
Seal Beach on a crowded summer afternoon Seal Beach Pier The second longest wooden pier in California (the longest is in Oceanside) is positioned in Seal Beach and is used for fishing and sightseeing.
Surfing locations in Seal Beach include the Seal Beach pier and the river-"Stingray Bay" (or Ray Bay the surfer's nickname for the mouth of the San Gabriel River the stingrays are thriving by the heated water from a several upstream powerplants).
Classic longboard builders in the region include Harbour Surfboards, established in 1959, in Seal Beach.
Seal Beach, City Hall.(National Registered Historic Place) Seal Beach City Hall is locale on 211 8th St, Seal Beach, CA 90740.
In the California State Legislature, Seal Beach is in the 34th Senate District, represented by Republican Janet Nguyen, and in the 72nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Travis Allen. In the United States House of Representatives, Seal Beach is in California's 48th congressional district, represented by Republican Dana Rohrabacher. Seal Beach is presently under the Los Alamitos School District.
Matt Embree, vocalist/guitarist of the band RX Bandits and founder of the Mash Down Babylon Records record label, both of which are also based in Seal Beach.
Steve Goodman, singer-songwriter and author of "City of New Orleans", "A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request" and "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" made Seal Beach his home from 1980 until his death in 1984. Bill Green, former United States record holder in track and field and fifth in the hammer throw in the 1984 Summer Olympics lived in Seal Beach from 1988 1999 Randy Stonehill Grammy impel singer/songwriter resides in Seal Beach with wife Sandi Jimmy Bennett, Actor, born in Seal Beach.
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