Oxnard is the city of Ventura County, California, United States. Located along the coast of Southern California, it is the 19th most populous city in California and the most populous in Ventura County. The city is located about 60 miles west of downtown Los Angeles and is part of the greater Greater Los Angeles area. The Oxnard population is 207,906 (2017). Oxnard is the most populous city in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, the Metropolitan Region of Statistics CA, which is listed as one of the richest regions in America, with its population well ahead of the national average.
Oxnard was founded in 1903. It lies on the western bank of the lush Oxnard Plain, which is adjacent to the center of strawberry and peanut farms. Oxnard is also a major transportation hub in Southern California, with Amtrak, Union Pacific, Metrolink, Greyhound, and Intercalifornia stopping at Oxnard. Oxnard also has a small regional airport called Oxnard Airport (OXR).
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History
Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, the area that is now Oxnard is inhabited by Native Americans Chumash. The first European to discover the area was the Portuguese explorer JoÃÆ' Â £ o Rodrigues Cabrilho, who claimed it for Spain in 1542. During the mission period, it was served by Mission San Buenaventura, founded in 1782.
Livestock began to take place among Californio settlers, who lost their regional influence when California became a US state in 1850. At about the same time, the area was inhabited by American farmers, who planted barley and beans.
Henry T. Oxnard, founder of the Minnesota-based Moorhead Sugar Company, which operates a successful beet sugar mill with three brothers (Benjamin, James, and Robert) in Chino, California, is interested in building a $ 2 million plant on the mainland of Port Hueneme. Shortly after the 1897 bit campaign, a new city emerged, now commemorated in the National Register of Historic Places as Henry T. Oxnard Historic District. Oxnard intended to name the settlement after the Greek word for "sugar", zachari , but frustrated by the bureaucracy, naming it himself. Given the growth of the city of Oxnard, in the spring of 1898, a railway station was built to service the plant, which attracted Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican workers, as well as sufficient trade for city appointments. Ironically, Oxnard brothers never lived in their namesake cities, and they sold Chino and the giant Oxnard red brick factory with a rancid chimney in 1899 for almost $ 4 million. The Oxnard plant operated from 19 August 1899 to 26 October 1959. The factory operation was interrupted at Oxnard Strike in 1903.
Oxnard was founded as a city of California on 30 June 1903, and public libraries opened in 1907. Prior to and during World War II, naval bases from Point Mugu and Port Hueneme were established in the area to take advantage of the only sustainable navigable port on the California coast between the Port of Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay, and the bases in turn encourage the development of aerospace and defense-based communications industries.
In the mid-20th century, Oxnard grew up and developed an area outside the city center with a new home, industrial, retail, and harbor called Channel Islands Harbor. Martin V. ("Bud") Smith (1916-2001) became the most influential developer in Oxnard history so far. Smith's first company in 1941 was Colonial House Restaurant (demolished 1988) and then Wagon Wheel Junction in 1947, (destroyed 2011). He is also involved in the development of high-rise towers at Topa Financial Plaza, Channel Islands Harbor, Casa Sirena Resort, Esplanade Shopping Mall, Fisherman's Wharf, Carriage Square Shopping Center, Maritime Museum and many other hotels, restaurants and retail projects.
In June 2004, the Oxnard Police Department and Sheriff Ventura County enacted gang orders over an area of ​​6.6 square miles (17 km) in the downtown district, to limit gangs. activity. The order was enforced in the High Court of Ventura County and made the law fixed in 2005. The same order was enacted in September 2006 over an area of ​​4.26 square miles (11.0 km 2 ) from the side south of the city.
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Geography
Oxnard is located on the Oxnard Plain, an area with fertile soil. With its beaches, dunes, wetlands, creeks and the Santa Clara River, this area contains a number of important biological communities. Indigenous plant communities include: coastal scraper sage, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Wharf wharf species; However, most native plants have been removed from within the city limits to make way for agriculture and urban and industrial development. Also native to this region are the endangered Ventura Marsh Milkvetch, and the last surviving population in Oxnard in a recently approved high end housing development center.
Beach
The town of Oxnard is home to more than 20 miles (32 km) of beautiful coastline, relatively not growing. The beaches at Oxnard are great and the sand is very soft. The dunes at Oxnard, once much more extensive, have been used to create the Middle East sand dunes in many films, the first being Sang Sheik with Rudolph Valentino. There are very few rocks or piles of driftwood on most beaches, but Oxnard is known to have dangerous rip currents on certain beaches. Oxnard has good surfing experience on many of its beaches.
Pantai di Oxnard meliputi: Ormond Beach, Silver Strand Beach, Hollywood Beach, Hollywood-By-the-Sea, Pantai Mandalay, Taman Pantai Oxnard, Oxnard Shores, 5th Street Beach, Pantai Mandalay State, McGrath State Beach, dan Rivermouth Beach.
Sungai
The Santa Clara River separates Oxnard and Ventura. The creeks to the river include Sespe Creek, Piru Creek, and Castaic Creek.
Geology
Oxnards are on top of tectonically active plates, as most of the Coastal California is near the border between the Pacific and North American Plates. The San Andreas fault, which limits this limit, is about 40 miles away.
One of Oxnard's inactive interference is the Oak Ridge Fault, which circles the Santa Clara River Valley to the west of the Santa Susana Mountains, across the Oxnard Plains via Oxnard, and extends into the Straits of Santa Barbara.
This error has proven to be a significant contributor to seismic activity in the Oxnard region and beyond. Earthquake 6.7 M w Northridge that occurred on January 17, 1994 is believed to occur in the extension of Santa Clarita from the Oak Ridge Fault. Landslides and mountain shards generated from the Northridge earthquake are observed over Moorpark, a town 19.6 miles (31.5 km) east of Oxnard.
Climate
Oxnard is the location of the National Weather Service forecast offices serving the Los Angeles area. The city is located in a Mediterranean climate zone (subtropical dry), experiencing mild and relatively wet winters, and warm and dry summers, in a climate called warm summer Mediterranean climate. The gentle breeze makes the Oxnard community cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than in the interior. The average mean temperature is 61 Â ° F (16 Â ° C). The average minimum temperature is 52 °, Â ° F (11Ã, Â ° C) and the average maximum temperature is 69 ° F, 21 ° C (21 ° C). Generally the weather is cool and dry, with 354 days of sunshine each year. The average annual rainfall is 15.62 inches (397 mm).
Wildlife and ecology
The area contains a number of important biological communities. Indigenous plant communities include coastal sage shrubs, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Rock Climbing species; However, most native plants have been removed from within the city limits to make way for development. Also native to the region are the endangered Ventura Marsh Milkvetch, with self-sustaining populations at Oxnard being at the center of a recently approved top-class residential development.
Raccoons, skunks, possums, foxes, coyotes, and dogs and stray cats often roam the neighborhood. The wildlife balance at Oxnard is similar to most places in southern California, with small mammals common in urban areas, such as squirrels, raccoons, and skunks. Coyotes prey on these smaller mammals. Small birds and mammals can be food for wild and wild dogs and cats.
Environment
Oxnard has more coastal power stations than any other city in California, with three fossil fuel power plants providing energy for cities in Ventura and Santa Barbara County. The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) has identified Oxnard as a city full of cargoes by various sources of pollution. The Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Office has categorized many Oxnards in the top 10 percent of postcodes most negatively affected by pollution in the state. In May 2015, Oxnard City Council unanimously decided to extend the moratorium of the city on the construction of power plants. The extension of the moratorium occurred due to the proposal of NRG/Southern California Edison, also referred to as Puente Power Project, to build a new fossil fuel power plant. The next morning, an NRG representative declared their case to replace the old power plant at Mandalay Beach with a new, hi-tech, much cleaner and more efficient plant.
Pesticides are used in farm fields around Oxnard, as this area is one of the country's leading strawberry producers, with agriculture being one of the largest contributors to the Oxnard economy. Strawberries depend on the large application of fumigants containing pesticides. The Center for Health Journalism reports four ZIP codes with the highest use of pesticides in the clustered states around Oxnard.
The Rio Mesa High School, which is surrounded by farmland in the Oxnard Plains, has been the center of complaints of the Civil Rights Rights Act VI since 1999, covering three generations. Title VI prohibits the recipients of federal funds from discrimination on the grounds of race, color or national origin. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) routinely rewards California's multimillion-dollar pesticide regulators in grants. The EPA is required to ensure that the fund recipient complies with Title VI. The plaintiffs argue that California pesticide regulators violate Title VI, by approving permits for toxins that disproportionately impact on Latin schoolchildren, who attend schools adjacent to the fields with the highest methyl bromide levels in the state.
Architecture
Historic architectural style of Oxnard family farm house is Victorian era, Italian style, and Carpenter Gothic. In Henry T. Oxnard Historic District, there are five Prairie Schools and eight Tudor Revival homes. The district includes Mission/Spanish Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Colonial Revival, and other architectures.
Cityscape
Oxnard is a combination of environment, and urban development that focuses on downtown, coastline, and harbor areas. The main uses of urban land are industrial, residential, commercial, and open space. The city is marked by one and two storey buildings, the only exception are some tall buildings in the northern part of town. The city is surrounded by agricultural land and the Pacific Ocean, as well as the Santa Clara River. The main development of the city lies along Highway 101 and other major roads.
The Henry T. Oxnard Historic District is a historic district of 70 acres (28 hectares) listed on the National Historic Site List in Oxnard. Includes around F and G Sts., Between Palm and 5th Sts., In the city, the district includes 139 buildings that contribute and include homes mostly built before 1925. It contains Craftsman and Revival architecture in abundance.
Ormond Beach is a beach along the Oxnard coast. The beach, which stretches for two miles, is adjacent to Ormond Wetlands, some farmland, and power plants remain. It covers the area between Points Hueneme and Mugu, and is a famous birding area. The beach has historically contained swamps, salt plains, slough, and lagoons, but the surrounding farms and industries have been drying, filling, and damaging beaches and wetlands. However, there is still a swamp zone system transition-bumps along most of the coast.
Demographics
2010
The US Census 2010 reported that Oxnard had a population of 197,899. Population density is 7358 people per square mile (2,841/km ²). The racial makeup of Oxnard included 95,346 (48.2%) White, 5,771 (2,9%) African American, 2,953 (1.5%) Native Americans, 14.550 (7.4%) Asian, 658 (0.3% ) Pacific Islands, 69.527 (35.1%) of other races, and 9,094 (4.6%) of two or more races. In addition, 145,551 people (73.5%) are Hispanic or Latino, of any race. Non-Hispanic white was 14.9% of the population in 2010, compared to 42.6% in 1980.
The Census reported that 196,465 people (99.3% of the population) live in households, 932 (0.5%) live in unembienced groups, and 502 (0.3%) are institutionalized.
There were 49,797 households, of which 25,794 (51.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 28,319 (56.9%) were married couples living together, 7,634 (15, 3%) had female households without husbands present, 4,043 (8.1%) had male households without wife present. There are 3,316 (6.7%) unmarried partnerships of the opposite sex, and 395 (0.8%) married couples or married couples. 7,090 households (14.2%) were made up of individuals and 2,665 (5.4%) had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 3.95. There were 39,996 families (80.3% of all households); the average family size is 4.20.
The population was spread with 59,018 people (29.8%) under the age of 18, 23,913 people (12.1%) aged 18 to 24, 57,966 people (29.3%) aged 25 to 44, 40,584 persons (20.5%) aged 45 to 64 years. , and 16,418 people (8.3%) aged 65 years or older. The median age was 29.9 years. For every 100 females, there are 103.0 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 102.4 men.
There are 52,772 units of homes with an average density of 1,962 per square mile (757.6/km²), of which 27,760 (55.7%) are occupied owners, and 22,037 (44.3%) are occupied by tenants. Homeowner vacancy rate is 1.8%; rental vacancy rate is 3.7%. 107,482 people (54.3% of the population) live in housing units occupied by owners and 88,983 people (45.0%) live in rental housing units.
census 2000
In the 2000 census, there were 170,358 people, 43,576 households, and 34,947 families living in the city. Population density was 6,729.7 people per square mile (2,598.8/km²). There are 45,166 residential units with an average density of 1,784.2 per square mile (689.0/km²). City's racial makeup is 42.1% White, 3.8% African American, 1.3% Native American, 7.4% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Island, 40.4% of other races, and 4.7 % of two or more races. Two thirds of the population (66.2%) are Hispanic or Latino from any race.
There were 43,576 households where 46.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.4% were married couples living together, 14.1% had unmarried female households present, and 19.8% is non-family. 14.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.6% had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 3.85 and the average family size was 4.16
In the city, the population is spread by 31.8% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.1% years or more. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females, there are 104.6 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 104.0 men.
The average income for households in the city is $ 48,603, and the average income for families is $ 49,150. Men have an average income of $ 30,643 versus $ 25,381 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 15,288. Approximately 11.4% of families and 15.1% of the population are below the poverty line, including 18.4% of those under the age of 18 and 8.8% of those aged 65 and older.
Economy
Oxnard's economy is driven by defense, international trade, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Oxnard is one of the premier manufacturing centers in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Port of Hueneme is the busiest and only deepest commercial port just between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and it's important to trade with the Pacific Rim economy. Companies utilizing the Port include Del Monte Foods, Chiquita, BMW, Land Rover, and Jaguar. Other important industries that drive Oxnard's existence include finance, transportation, high-tech industries, and energy, especially petroleum. Two large active oil fields underlie the city and adjacent areas: Oxnard Oil Field, east of the city along Jalan 5, and West Montalvo Oil Field along the coast to the west of the city. Tenneder's Oxnard Refinery, on 5th Street east of Del Norte Avenue, processes oil from both fields.
According to the 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report on the city, the top companies in the city are:
Other large businesses include Naval Base Ventura County, Boskovich Farms, PTI Technologies, Procter & amp; Gamble, Seminis, Spatz Laboratories, and Gills Onions.
Some of the big companies headquartered in Oxnard are Haas Automation, Seminis, Raypak, Drum Workshop, Borla Performance, Boss Audio, and Robbins Auto Tops Procter & amp; Gamble and Sysco maintain their West Coast operations in Oxnard.
Agriculture
According to Camarillo's General Plan: "The area under study shows a high percentage of the Group I land, mainly located in the relatively flat Oxnard Plains Oxnard Plains, as this high quality farm, coupled with favorable climates, is considered one of the most fertile areas in world. "
In 1995, SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) was initiated by farmers, farmers and residents of Ventura County to keep the land on the Oxnard Plains from development.
Strawberries Oxnard
The Oxnard Plains are famous for their strawberries. According to the USDA, Oxnard is the largest producer of strawberries in California, supplying about one-third of the State's annual strawberry volume. From late September to late October, strawberries are grown and harvest takes place from mid-December to mid-July in Oxnard. The peak season in California runs from April to June, when up to 10 million pints of strawberries are delivered each day. The state of California supplies more than 85 percent of US strawberries, with the US supplying a quarter of the world's total strawberry production.
Each year Oxnard hosts the California Strawberry Festival during the summer at College Park next to Oxnard College, featuring vendors and food based on fruit such as strawberry nachos, strawberry pizzas, strawberry cakes, strawberry sundaes, and strawberry champagne.
Art and culture
The Oxnard cultural institutions including the Carnegie Art Museum, founded in 1907 as the Oxnard Public Library by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife, founded by Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler, Murphy Auto Museum, Channel Islands Maritime Museum and Seabee Museum. The Historic District of Henry T. Oxnard is adjacent to the commercial city center where Heritage Square, a collection of Victorian and Craftsman homes formerly owned by the Oxnard pioneer family, is located. Heritage Square is home to the Petit Playhouse and Elite Theater Company. Oxnard Center for the Performing Arts and Convention Center is home to the New West Symphony. Oxnard also has the Oxnard Independent Film Festival and the annual Channel Islands High Ship Festival. The Herzog Winery is based in Oxnard along with other wine tasting rooms.
Music
Hip Hop Madlib Producer, Kan Kick, Oh No, Digital Pretender rapper Dudley Perkins, Anderson. The boys and bands in the "Nardcore" punk music scene are from Oxnard, including Dr. Know, Agression, Scared Straight, Ill Repute, False Confession, Stalag 13, Ten Feet, No Motiv, and Habeas Corpus. The adjacent town and Ventura both retain the atmosphere of punk music that has developed to this day, fueled by a mix of both skaters and cultural surfer. Metal bands are also prominent in the region. Oxnard is also home to the annual Oxnard Salsa Festival, which takes place at the end of the last week of every July. For two days Oxnard hosts local and international band salsa at Plaza Park. Also Oxnard is home to the Japanese-American skura band.
Sports
Dallas Cowboys held their pre-season training camp at River Ridge Field in Oxnard in 2001, 2004-06, 2008-10 and 2012-16 (Cowboys trained at California Lutheran University near Thousand Oaks in 1963-1989). The New Orleans Saints were trained at Oxnard in 2011. The Los Angeles Raiders run at River Ridge in the 1980s and 90s.
On February 4, 2016, the Los Angeles Rams (NFL team) voted Oxnard to be the location of the Official Team Activity and their mini camp. On February 19, 2016, the town of Oxnard and Rams reached a tentative agreement to host official team activities or OTAs and minicamps at River Ridge Playing Fields and on February 23, 2016, Oxnard City Council voted unanimously 5-0 to allow the Los Angeles Rams to use River Ridge Playing Fields facility from April 18th to June 17th and a locker room space from 28th March to 24th June.
Education
The city of Oxnard is served by 54 public schools that provide education for over 53,000 students in K-12 classes. If all the Oxnard public school districts are unified into one district, similar to cities like New York and Los Angeles, it will be the 71th largest school district in the United States.
SMA
All high schools in Oxnard are operated by Oxnard Union High School District, which provides high school education for 20,000 students across 10 campuses in three cities (Oxnard, Camarillo and Port Hueneme) as well as areas unrelated to El Rio, Somis and Channel Islands.
OUHSD oversees Adolfo Camarillo High School, Channel Islands High School, Hueneme High School, Oxnard Secondary School, Pacifica Secondary School, Rancho Campana Senior High School and Rio Mesa High School, and Frontier High School, Oxnard Adult, Pacific View and Puente. Santa Clara High School is a private Catholic high school.
Colleges and universities
Oxnard is served at the college level by Oxnard College and California State University Channel Islands. In addition, California Lutheran University, California State University, Northridge, ITT, University of Phoenix, University of California, Santa Barbara, National University, and Azusa Pacific University have satellite campuses in Oxnard.
Transportation
Road
Ventura Freeway (US 101) is the main highway through Oxnard, connecting Ventura and Santa Barbara to the northwest, and Los Angeles to the southeast. Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) leads to the south coast to Malibu. Highway 34 (Fifth Street) connects downtown Oxnard to Camarillo by running the eastern parallel with the Southern Pacific Coast Line, carrying Coast Starlight Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink Ventura County Line of passenger trains. Highway 232 (Vineyard Avenue), heading northeast, provides connections to California State Route 118 to Saticoy and the intersection with California State Route 126 leading to Santa Paula, Fillmore and Santa Clarita.
Port
Port of Hueneme is located just south of Oxnard in the town of Port Hueneme and operated jointly by the United States Navy and Oxnard Harbor District. The Port is the only deepwater port between Long Beach Harbor and San Francisco Harbor and the only deepwater military port between San Diego Bay and Puget Sound.
Port of Hueneme is the delivery and receiving point for various resources with a goal in the larger population centers of the Los Angeles Basin. Resources include cars, pineapples, and bananas. Agricultural products such as onions, strawberries, and flowers are shipped.
The United States Navy maintains a facility in Port Hueneme, to support the naval air station at Point Mugu in the south, which consists of Naval Base Ventura County. Port Hueneme is home to the West Coast Navy Construction, "Seabees", as well as links in coastal radar systems.
Port
Oxnard is home to one harbor: Channel Islands Harbor, with Ventura Harbor located seven miles (11 km) north in adjacent Ventura. The Channel Islands port is located on the southern coast of Oxnard and is nicknamed the "Gateway to the Channel Islands" due to the high number of operations that sail to the islands outside the harbor. Both ports are a very important fishing industry port.
Airport
Oxnard Airport is a public aviation airport within a city owned and operated by County of Ventura.
Public transit
Oxnard Transit Center serves as the main transit hub for the city, as well as the western region.
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- Metrolink
- 6 round trip trains from Ventura County Line provide commuting services to Los Angeles on weekdays during peak hours.
- Amtrak
- 10 Pacific Surfliners daily commute through Los Angeles to San Diego. Several trains north of Santa Barbara proceed to San Luis Obispo. The Coast Starlight, which travels from Los Angeles to Seattle stops twice a day (once to the north, once to the south), makes west Ventura County stop here (the eastern stop of Simi Valley).
Bus
- Gold Coast Transit District
- Operates local bus services in Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ventura and Ojai cities. The hub is the Oxnard Transit Center.
- VISTA
- Operates 3 Conejo connection buses during peak hours, to the Transit Hub Warner Center in Los Angeles, connecting with Metro Orange Line. The Conejo Connection does not go to the Oxnard Transit Center, but stops at the Esplanade Shopping Center near Highway 101. VISTA also operates Coastal Connection via Ventura to Santa Barbara and Goleta from the Esplanade.
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