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Location of Solana Beach inside San Diego County, California.
Solana Beach, California is positioned in the US Solana Beach, California - Solana Beach, California Solana Beach, officially the City of Solana Beach, is a coastal town/city in San Diego County, California.
Solana Beach is positioned at 32 59 43 N 117 15 37 W (32.992937,-117.271135). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2).
During the Spanish colonial era, trails heading north near Solana Beach crossed inland to avoid the marshes and inlets of the area.
Jones family were the first pioneer in the region now known as Solana Beach, arriving in 1886.
Until 1923, the chief area known as Solana Beach had been called Lockwood Mesa.
When Lake Hodges Dam was assembled in 1917-18, the region encompassing Solana Beach began to precarious rapidly.
The creation of the 12,000-acre (49 km2) Santa Fe Irrigation District in 1918 ensured that the region from Rancho Santa Fe through Solana Beach would prosper and expand.
The coastline from Solana Beach to Oceanside began to boom in the early 1920s.
Jones to precarious the town of Solana Beach, with the help of his brother-in-law Eugene Batchelder.
To furnish access to the beach for the development, hydraulic water pressure was used to erode away tons of earth and problematic the Fletcher Cove entry and beach.
The beach was opened with great fanfare including horse competitions on the beach on July 4, 1925. In 1986 the improve officially incorporated as the town/city of Solana Beach.
The town/city received nationwide news in 2003 upon becoming the first town/city in the Continental United States to enact a smoking ban on its enhance beaches, a trend which has continued as many other coastal Californian suburbs have followed suit in banning smoking on their beaches.
Solana Beach was the last coastal improve in North San Diego County to ban alcohol on the beach, doing so for at least a year in an action unanimously allowed by the City Council.
David Martin, 66 years old, suffered a fatal injury from an extremely rare great white shark bite while swimming with a group approximately 150 yards (140 m) off shore near Solana Beach's Fletcher Cove. The group of swimmers reportedly began their swim at Tide Beach Park to the north.
Surfers in the region of Fletcher Cover noted harbor seals in the water and a wounded seal on the beach at Fletcher Cove just before the attack, the latter being a typical sign of sharks feeding in the area.
The neighborhood of La Colonia de Eden Gardens, also known as La Colonia and Eden Gardens, is one of the earliest residentiary areas of Solana Beach.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Solana Beach had a populace of 12,867.
The ethnic makeup of Solana Beach was 11,039 (85.8%) White, 60 (0.5%) African American, 62 (0.5%) Native American, 513 (4.0%) Asian, 19 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 738 (5.7%) from other competitions, and 436 (3.4%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 12,867 citizens (100% of the population) lived in homeholds, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
The populace was spread out with 2,378 citizens (18.5%) under the age of 18, 738 citizens (5.7%) aged 18 to 24, 3,518 citizens (27.3%) aged 25 to 44, 3,829 citizens (29.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,404 citizens (18.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments, the median homehold income of Solana Beach in 2005 was $101,122 (not adjusted for inflation).
Solana Beach is a General law town/city directed by a Council/Manager form of government.
In the state legislature, Solana Beach is positioned in: In the United States House of Representatives, Solana Beach is in California's 49th congressional district, represented by Republican Darrell Issa. The precinct has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+4. The Cedros Design District is positioned in Solana Beach, and consists of more than 85 art arcades, import and antique stores, boutiques and cafes. The Design District is also home to the Solana Beach Farmers Market, which operates every Sunday from 1pm to 5pm and offers locally grown fresh cut flowers, organic produce and veggies. Another prominent venue on Cedros Avenue is the Belly Up, a live music space operating since 1974. Solana Beach is served by the Solana Beach School District and the San Dieguito Union High School District.
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