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economy.[79] In 2009, the Wall Street employment wages were paid in the amount of almost $18.5 billion in the state. The industry contributed $39.4 billion or 8.4 percent to the New Jersey's Gross Domestic Product in the same year.[80] The most significant area with Wall Street employment is in Jersey City. In 2008, the "Wall Street West" employment contributed to one third of the private sector jobs in Jersey City. Within the Financial Service cluster, there were three major sectors: more than 60 percent were in the securities industry; 20 percent were in banking; and 8 percent in insurance.[81] Additionally, New Jersey has become the main technology infrastructure to support the Wall Street operations. A substantial amount of securities traded in the United States are executed in New Jersey as the data centers of electronic trading in the U.S. equity market for all major stock exchanges are located in North and Central Jersey.[82][83] A significant amount of securities clearing and settlement workforce is also in the state. This includes the majority of the workforce of Depository Trust Company,[84] the primary U.S. securities depository; and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation,[85] the parent company of National Securities Clearing Corporation, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation and Emerging Markets Clearing Corporation.[86] Having a direct tie to Wall Street employment is problematic for New Jersey, however. The state lost 7.9 percent of its employment base from 2007 to 2010 in the financial services sector in the fallout of the subprime mortgage crisis.[80] Competing financial centers[edit] Main article: Financial centre Of the street's importance as a financial center, New York Times analyst Daniel Gross wrote:
In today's burgeoning and increasingly integrated global financial markets — a vast, neural spaghetti of wires, Web sites and trading platforms — the N.Y.S.E. is clearly no longer the epicenter. Nor is New York. The largest mutual-fund complexes are in Valley Forge, Pa., Los Angeles and Boston, while trading and money management are spreading globally. Since the end of the cold war, vast pools of capital have been forming overseas, in the Swiss bank accounts of Russian oligarchs, in the Shanghai vaults of Chinese manufacturing magnates and in the coffers of funds controlled by governments in Singapore, Russia, Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia that may amount to some $2.5 trillion. -- Daniel Gross in 2007[23]
An example is the alternative trading platform known as BATS, based in Kansas City, which came "out of nowhere to gain a 9 percent share in the market for trading United States stocks."[23] The firm has computers in the U.S. state of New Jersey, two salespersons in New York City, but the remaining 33 employees work in a center in Kansas.[23]
In the public imagination[edit]
Trinity Church from Wall Street.
Wall Street in a conceptual sense represents financial and economic power. To Americans, it can sometimes represent elitism and power politics, and its role has been a source of controversy throughout the nation's history, particularly beginning around the Gilded Age period in the late 19th century. Wall Street became the symbol of a country and economic system that many Americans see as having developed through trade, capitalism, and innovation.[87]
Wall Street has become synonymous with financial interests, often used negatively.[88] During the subprime mortgage crisis from 2007–10, Wall Street financing was blamed as one of the causes, although most commentators blame an interplay of factors. The U.S. government with the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailed out the banks and financial backers with billions of taxpayer dollars, but the bailout was often criticized as politically motivated,[88] and was criticized by journalists as well as the public. Analyst Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post criticized the bailout as helping large Wall Street firms such as Citigroup while neglecting to help smaller community development banks such as Chicago's ShoreBank.[88] One writer in the Huffington Post looked at FBI statistics on robbery, fraud, and crime and concluded that Wall Street was the "most dangerous neighborhood in the United States" if one factored in the $50 billion fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff.[27] When large firms such as Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing were found guilty of fraud, Wall Street was often blamed,[36] even though these firms had headquarters around the nation and not in Wall Street. Many complained that the resulting Sarbanes-Oxley legislation dampened the business climate with regulations that were "overly burdensome."[89] Interest groups seeking favor with Washington lawmakers, such as car dealers, have often sought to portray their interests as allied with Main Street rather than Wall Street, although analyst Peter Overby on National Public Radio suggested that car dealers have written over $250 billion in consumer loans and have real ties with Wall Street.[90] When the United States Treasury bailed out large financial firms, to ostensibly halt a downward spiral in the nation's economy, there was tremendous negative political fallout, particularly when reports came out that monies supposed to be used to ease credit restrictions were being used to pay bonuses to highly paid employees.[63] Analyst William D. Cohan argued that it was "obscene" how Wall Street reaped "massive profits and bonuses in 2009" after being saved by "trillions of dollars of American taxpayers' treasure" despite Wall Street's "greed and irresponsible risk-taking."[91] Washington Post reporter Suzanne McGee called for Wall Street to make a sort of public apology to the nation, and expressed dismay that people such as Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein hadn't expressed contrition despite being sued by the SEC in 2009.[92] McGee wrote that "Bankers aren't the sole culprits, but their too-glib denials of responsibility and the occasional vague and waffling expression of regret don't go far enough to deflect anger."[92]
US headquarters of Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in 2010.
But chief banking analyst at Goldman Sachs, Richard Ramsden, is "unapologetic" and sees "banks as the dynamos that power the rest of the economy."[53] Ramsden believes "risk-taking is vital" and said in 2010:
You can construct a banking system in which no bank will ever fail, in which there's no leverage. But there would be a cost. There would be virtually no economic growth because there would be no credit creation. -- Richard Ramsden of Goldman Sachs, 2010.[53]
Others in the financial industry believe they've been unfairly castigated by the public and by politicians. For example, Anthony Scaramucci reportedly told President Barack Obama in 2010 that he felt like a piñata, "whacked with a stick" by "hostile politicians".[53]
The financial misdeeds of various figures throughout American history sometimes casts a dark shadow on financial investing as a whole, and include names such as William Duer, Jim Fisk and Jay Gould (the latter two believed to have been involved with an effort to collapse the U.S. gold market in 1869) as well as modern figures such as Bernard Madoff who "bilked billions from investors".[70]
In addition, images of Wall Street and its figures have loomed large. The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure of Gordon Gekko who used the phrase "greed is good", which caught on in the cultural parlance.[93] Stone commented in 2009 how the movie had had an unexpected cultural influence, not causing them to turn away from corporate greed, but causing many young people to choose Wall Street careers because of that movie.[93] A reporter repeated other lines from the film: "I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, Buddy. A player."[93]
Wall Street firms have however also contributed to projects such as Habitat for Humanity as well as done food programs in Haiti and trauma centers in Sudan and rescue boats during floods in Bangladesh.[94]
Versus Main Street[edit]
Not just a metonym, Wall Street has a sign post.
As a figure of speech contrasted to "Main Street", the term "Wall Street" can refer to big business interests against those of small business and the working or middle classes. It is sometimes used more specifically to refer to research analysts, shareholders, and financial institutions such as investment banks. Whereas "Main Street" conjures up images of locally owned businesses and banks, the phrase "Wall Street" is commonly used interchangeably with the phrase "Corporate America". It is also sometimes used in contrast to distinguish between the interests, culture, and lifestyles of investment banks and those of Fortune 500 industrial or service corporations.
As a culture[edit]
Charlie Chaplin stands on Douglas Fairbanks' shoulders during a rally at Wall Street in 1918.
According to the discipline of anthropology, the term culture represents the customs, values, morals, laws and rituals which a particular group or society shares. In the public imagination, Wall Street represents elitism, finance, economics and greed. However, although Wall Street employees may exhibit greedy and self-interested behaviours to the public, these behaviours are justified through their own value system and social practices. Various anthropologists have conducted research on Wall Street and it is their research which can confirm the negative views of Wall Street while providing the public with information that can contribute to a better understanding of how Wall Street workers perceive themselves. Anthropologist Karen Ho, who has conducted ethnographic research on Wall Street, states in Situating Global Capitalisms that the markets are beginning to self-regulate themselves in terms of neoliberalism.[95] Through the perception of the public, financial investors take on a role that has already been established for them. It is both appropriate and fitting to call Wall Street a culture because of the system of values and practices it holds onto. Moreover, anthropological insight can help improve the general public's understanding of Wall Street and in turn allow the public to appreciate the culture of Wall Street which is both logical and sensible to the workers themselves.
Professor Katarina Sjöberg argues in The Wall Street Culture that within the media negative images of Wall Street are painted in terms of the district's market falls, money losses and deceitful gains.[96] However, this is not what Wall Street investors are bothered by. Instead, it is the public's words and opinions which they feel mold their image.[96] Sjöberg notes that in the American culture, money making is of utmost importance and knowing how to make money is considered to be respectable.[96] Therefore, Wall Street investors prioritize their work as well as strive to climb the corporate ladder.[96] They also feel obligated to maintain the image the public creates, because it strengthens their position as a Wall Street employee. They value seeing themselves as experts in their field, especially since they live in a society that values wealth.[96] This justifies their acts of greed, and allows them to take part in activities often deemed as criminal because they feel as though it is expected. Moreover, they do not regret their actions because to them, it is part of being an American.[96] Aside from living up to the public's image, Wall Street workers justify their high salaries with an argument pointed out by Karen Ho in Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis, the Downsizing of Corporate America. She argues that due to the fact that the financial market is volatile in conjunction with the existence of job insecurity, Wall Street workers are compensated through their salaries.[97]
In Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Bankers by Karen Ho, she interviews a banker who believes that working for Wall Street puts them at the top of the hierarchal ladder in society. The banker feels that everything goes through Wall Street, in terms of loans, investments, change or growth.[98] From his point of view, Wall Street values are embedded in power.[96] Similarly to Sjöberg's article, The Wall Street Culture, she states that as she was entering the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to conduct an interview, she was questioned by many employees regarding her purpose, how she gained access into their workplace without an appointment, and how she passed security.[96] In their view, there is a "dividing line between 'us on the inside' and 'those on the outside'".[96] These factors strengthen the power relations as well as establish a hierarchy between them as Wall Street employees, and the public.[96]
Additionally, in Disciplining investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of "Corporate America", Karen Ho states that as we continue to learn more about Wall Street, we learn about each independent banker. As the banker brings their life experiences into the business, we can see the reasons for their actions. Each investor has a unique identity which contributes to the culture of Wall Street. Ideally, they live in the moment.[97] However, job insecurity and the volatile nature of the market creates a constant state of fear within the investor.[96] Therefore, they must organize themselves and follow a pattern to ensure security, profit and prosperity for the long run.[96] Karen Ho wishes for us to see Wall Street through the lens of the everyday investor and banker, as well as understand the experiences and everyday situations that they must endure. Ho also believes that the individuals within the public can counteract the stereotypes and negativity that both the media and society associates with Wall Street by learning more about the personal experiences of the investors and their everyday lives.[96] Similarly to regular wage earners, Wall Street employees are just trying to earn a day's pay. Their work is sometimes undervalued, because the public does not see them in this manner. Thus, Wall Street cannot be understood in black and white terms. One needs to understand that they have a value system which is not only logical to them, but also reflective of North America's values of individual power, prestige, and social practices based on individualism. For example, throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s Manhattan was a "white-only" community.[99] Within that time period, there was a lot of racial segregation.[99] The values of America and the social practices were not like they are today, so African Americans were not within the Wall Street community.[99]
In popular culture[edit]
Literature
Herman Melville's classic short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (first published in 1853 and republished in revised edition in 1856) is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" and portrays the alienating forces at work within the confines of Wall Street.
Many events of Tom Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities center on Wall Street and its culture.
Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho (1991) follows the day-to-day life of Wall Street investment banker and serial killer Patrick Bateman.
In William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury (1929), Jason Compson hits on other perceptions of Wall Street: after finding some of his stocks are doing poorly, he blames "the Jews".
Movies
The film Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) exemplify many popular conceptions of Wall Street as a center of shady corporate dealings and insider trading.[100]
The film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) has a plot involving thieves breaking into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and stealing most of the gold bullion stored underground, by driving dump trucks through a nearby subway station.
In the film National Treasure (2004), a clue to finding the Templar Treasure leads the main characters to Wall Street's Trinity Church.
In the Chandran Rutnam-directed film Prince of Malacca, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, is enters into a double deal by becoming a CIA's intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States of America to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in an exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca, where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.
In the film The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bane attacks the Gotham City Stock Exchange. Scenes were filmed in and around the New York Stock Exchange, with the J.P. Morgan Building at Wall Street and Broad Street standing in for the Exchange.[101]
The film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is a black comedy about Jordan Belfort, a New York stockbroker who ran the firm, Stratton Oakmont, that engaged in securities fraud and corruption on Wall Street in the 1990s.
In the fictional Star Trek universe, Wall Street is frequently visited by Ferengi pilgrims, who revere it as a holy site of commerce and business. (Star Trek: Voyager episode 11:59)
Music
Battles' 2011 album Gloss Drop contains a song titled "Wall Street."
Ska/punk band Big D and the Kids Table released their song "It's Raining Zombies On Wall Street" on their album For the Damned, the Dumb & the Delirious. The song is about the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
On January 26, 2000, the band Rage Against The Machine filmed the music video for "Sleep Now in the Fire" on Wall Street, which was directed by Michael Moore.[102] The band at one point stormed the New York Stock Exchange, causing the doors of the Exchange to be closed early (2:52 P.M.). Trading on the Exchange floor, however, continued uninterrupted.[103][not in citation given]
"Walking On Wall Street" is the name of a song from the animated children's educational musical series, Schoolhouse Rock!.
Video games
In the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in 2016, soldiers are sent to destroy an invader's radar jamming installation on top of the New York Stock Exchange.
In the video game Crysis 2, Wall Street is featured as a multiplayer map as well as a singleplayer location.
In the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, Wall Street in the fictional Liberty City is a district dubbed The Exchange.
Other
TNA wrestler Robert Roode is billed from "Wall Street in Manhattan, New York".
"Wallstreet Kingdom" is a controversial fashion brand promoting capitalism and bonuses on Wall Street.
Personalities associated with the street[edit]
Many people associated with Wall Street have become famous; although in most cases their reputations are limited to members of the stock brokerage and banking communities, others have gained national and international fame. For some, their fame is due to skillful investment strategies, financing, reporting, legal or regulatory activities, while others are remembered for their notable failures or scandal.[104]
Transportation[edit]
Pier 11
Wall Street being historically a commuter destination, much transportation infrastructure has been developed to serve it. Today, Pier 11 at the foot of the street is a busy terminal for New York Waterway and other ferries.
The New York City Subway serves three stations under Wall Street:
The list of airports in the United States is broken down into separate lists due to the large number of airports.
Contents [hide]
1 Lists by state or territory
2 Lists by ICAO location indicator
3 Primary airports
4 See also
5 References
6 Footnotes
Lists by state or territory[edit]
Public-use and military airports in each U.S. state and territory can be found on the following lists:
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Airports in the United States
States
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Insular areas
American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
Lists by ICAO location indicator[edit]
Airports in the United States that have an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) location indicator can be found on the following lists:
K – Contiguous United States
NS – American Samoa
PA – Alaska
PB – Baker Island
PF – Fort Yukon, Alaska
PG – Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
PH – Hawaii
PJ – Johnston Atoll
PL – Line Islands
PM – Midway Atoll
PO – Oliktok Point, Alaska
PP – Point Lay, Alaska
PW – Wake Island
TI – U.S. Virgin Islands
TJ – Puerto Rico
Primary airports[edit]
Airports in the United States that provide scheduled passenger services and have over 10,000 passenger boardings per year are classified as primary airports by the Federal Aviation Administration.
This list of primary airports contains the following information:
CITY – The city generally associated with the airport. This is not always the actual location since some airports are located in smaller towns outside of the city they serve.
FAA – The location identifier assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These are linked to that airport's page in the state's airport directory, where available.
IATA – The airport code assigned by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Those that do not match the FAA code are shown in bold.
ICAO – The location indicator assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
AIRPORT – The official airport name.
ROLE – One of four FAA airport categories. This list only includes airports designated as Commercial service – primary (P). Each primary airport is further classified by the FAA as one of the following four "hub" types:
L: Large hub that accounts for at least 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
M: Medium hub that accounts for between 0.25% and 1% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
S: Small hub that accounts for between 0.05% and 0.25% of total U.S. passenger enplanements.
N: Nonhub that accounts for less than 0.05% of total U.S. passenger enplanements, but more than 10,000 annual enplanements
ENPL. – The number of enplanements (commercial passenger boardings) that occurred at the airport in calendar year 2013 as per FAA records.
Primary airports: Alabama – Alaska – Arizona – Arkansas – California – Colorado – Connecticut – Delaware – Florida – Georgia – Hawaii – Idaho – Illinois – Indiana – Iowa – Kansas – Kentucky – Louisiana – Maine – Maryland – Massachusetts – Michigan – Minnesota – Mississippi – Missouri – Montana – Nebraska – Nevada – New Hampshire – New Jersey – New Mexico – New York – North Carolina – North Dakota – Ohio – Oklahoma – Oregon – Pennsylvania – Rhode Island – South Carolina – South Dakota – Tennessee – Texas – Utah – Vermont – Virginia – Washington – West Virginia – Wisconsin – Wyoming – American Samoa – Guam – Northern Mariana Islands – Puerto Rico – U.S. Virgin Islands
City FAA IATA ICAO Airport Role Enplanements
ALABAMA
Birmingham BHM BHM KBHM Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport P-S 1,335,215
Dothan DHN DHN KDHN Dothan Regional Airport P-N 48,423
Huntsville HSV HSV KHSV Huntsville International Airport (Carl T. Jones Field) P-S 505,541
Mobile MOB MOB KMOB Mobile Regional Airport P-N 287,661
Montgomery MGM MGM KMGM Montgomery Regional Airport (Dannelly Field) P-N 157,958
ALASKA
ARIZONA
Bullhead City IFP IFP KIFP Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport P-N 109,647
Flagstaff FLG FLG KFLG Flagstaff Pulliam Airport P-N 58,323
Grand Canyon / Tusayan GCN GCN KGCN Grand Canyon National Park Airport P-N 126,364
Mesa IWA AZA KIWA Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport P-N 725,048
Page PGA PGA KPGA Page Municipal Airport P-N 25,260
Peach Springs 1G4 GCW Grand Canyon West Airport P-N 59,846
Phoenix PHX PHX KPHX Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport P-L 19,525,829
Tucson TUS TUS KTUS Tucson International Airport P-S 1,570,329
Yuma NYL YUM KNYL Yuma International Airport / MCAS Yuma P-N 78,395
ARKANSAS
Fayetteville XNA XNA KXNA Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport P-S 558,218
Fort Smith FSM FSM KFSM Fort Smith Regional Airport P-N 82,742
Little Rock LIT LIT KLIT Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Adams Field) (was Little Rock National) P-S 1,055,608
Texarkana TXK TXK KTXK Texarkana Regional Airport (Webb Field) P-N 32,882
CALIFORNIA
Arcata / Eureka ACV ACV KACV Arcata Airport P-N 56,682
Bakersfield BFL BFL KBFL Meadows Field P-N 143,175
Burbank BUR BUR KBUR Bob Hope Airport P-M 1,919,005
Carlsbad CRQ CLD KCRQ McClellan–Palomar Airport P-N 52,561
Chico CIC CIC KCIC Chico Municipal Airport P-N 16,835
Crescent City CEC CEC KCEC Del Norte County Airport (Jack McNamara Field) P-N 12,136
Fresno FAT FAT KFAT Fresno Yosemite International Airport P-S 684,849
Long Beach LGB LGB KLGB Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field) P-S 1,438,948
Los Angeles LAX LAX KLAX Los Angeles International Airport P-L 32,427,115
Mammoth Lakes MMH MMH KMMH Mammoth Yosemite Airport P-N [nb 1] 30,970
Modesto MOD MOD KMOD Modesto City–County Airport (Harry Sham Field) P-N 11,310
Monterey MRY MRY KMRY Monterey Regional Airport (was Monterey Peninsula Airport) P-N 205,838
Oakland OAK OAK KOAK Oakland International Airport P-M 4,771,830
Ontario ONT ONT KONT Ontario International Airport P-M 1,970,538
Palm Springs PSP PSP KPSP Palm Springs International Airport P-S 876,428
Redding RDD RDD KRDD Redding Municipal Airport P-N 24,875
Sacramento SMF SMF KSMF Sacramento International Airport P-M 4,255,145
San Diego SAN SAN KSAN San Diego International Airport P-L 8,876,777
San Francisco SFO SFO KSFO San Francisco International Airport P-L 21,706,567
San Jose SJC SJC KSJC Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport P-M 4,317,896
San Luis Obispo SBP SBP KSBP San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport (McChesney Field) P-N 135,844
Santa Ana SNA SNA KSNA John Wayne Airport – Orange County (was Orange County Airport) P-M 4,542,376
Santa Barbara SBA SBA KSBA Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (Santa Barbara Airport) P-N 365,036
Santa Maria SMX SMX KSMX Santa Maria Public Airport (Capt G. Allan Hancock Field) P-N 51,395
Santa Rosa STS STS KSTS Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport P-N 113,083
Stockton SCK SCK KSCK Stockton Metropolitan Airport P-N 71,757
COLORADO
Aspen ASE ASE KASE Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (Sardy Field) P-N 208,682
Colorado Springs COS COS KCOS City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport P-S 658,318
Denver DEN DEN KDEN Denver International Airport P-L 25,497,348
Durango DRO DRO KDRO Durango-La Plata County Airport P-N 192,797
Eagle EGE EGE KEGE Eagle County Regional Airport P-N 168,535
Grand Junction GJT GJT KGJT Grand Junction Regional Airport (Walker Field) P-N 211,270
Gunnison GUC GUC KGUC Gunnison-Crested Butte Regional Airport P-N 30,780
Hayden HDN HDN KHDN Yampa Valley Airport (Yampa Valley Regional) P-N 92,184
Montrose MTJ MTJ KMTJ Montrose Regional Airport P-N 84,579
CONNECTICUT
Hartford BDL BDL KBDL Bradley International Airport P-M 2,681,718
New Haven HVN HVN KHVN Tweed New Haven Regional Airport P-N 37,434
FLORIDA
Daytona Beach DAB DAB KDAB Daytona Beach International Airport P-N 627,917
Fort Lauderdale FLL FLL KFLL Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport P-L 11,079,402
Fort Myers RSW RSW KRSW Southwest Florida International Airport P-M 7,205,205
Gainesville GNV GNV KGNV Gainesville Regional Airport P-N 413,520
Jacksonville JAX JAX KJAX Jacksonville International Airport P-M 2,549,712
Key West EYW EYW KEYW Key West International Airport P-S 403,021
Melbourne MLB MLB KMLB Melbourne International Airport P-N 211,702
Miami MIA MIA KMIA Miami International Airport P-L 16,194,277
Orlando MCO MCO KMCO Orlando International Airport P-L 17,614,745
Orlando/Sanford SFB SFB KSFB Orlando Sanford International Airport P-S 805,661
Panama City Beach ECP ECP KECP Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport [nb 2] P-S 391,893
Pensacola PNS PNS KPNS Pensacola International Airport (Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport) P-S 744,259
Punta Gorda PGD PGD KPGD Punta Gorda Airport (was Charlotte County Airport) P-N 171,121
Sarasota / Bradenton SRQ SRQ KSRQ Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport P-S 595,423
St. Augustine SGJ UST KSGJ Northeast Florida Regional Airport (was St. Augustine Airport) R 18,255
St. Petersburg/Clearwater PIE PIE KPIE St. Petersburg International Airport P-S 814,595
Tallahassee TLH TLH KTLH Tallahassee Regional Airport P-N 336,129
Tampa TPA TPA KTPA Tampa International Airport P-L 13,306,354
Valparaiso VPS VPS KVPS Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport / Eglin Air Force Base P-N 353,953
West Palm Beach PBI PBI KPBI Palm Beach International Airport P-M 2,848,901
GEORGIA
Albany ABY ABY KABY Southwest Georgia Regional Airport P-N 31,276
Atlanta ATL ATL KATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport P-L 45,308,685
Augusta AGS AGS KAGS Augusta Regional Airport (Bush Field) P-N 261,079
Brunswick BQK BQK KBQK Brunswick Golden Isles Airport P-N 32,450
Columbus CSG CSG KCSG Columbus Metropolitan Airport P-N 59,675
Savannah SAV SAV KSAV Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport P-S 798,970
Valdosta VLD VLD KVLD Valdosta Regional Airport P-N 36,814
HAWAII
Hilo ITO ITO PHTO Hilo International Airport P-S 640,411
Honolulu HNL HNL PHNL Honolulu International Airport P-L 9,466,995
Kahului OGG OGG PHOG Kahului Airport P-M 2,955,304
Kailua/Kona KOA KOA PHKO Kona International Airport at Keahole P-S 1,376,641
Kaunakakai MKK MKK PHMK Molokai Airport (Moloka?i Airport) P-N 63,879
Lanai City (Lana?i City) LNY LNY PHNY Lanai Airport (Lana?i Airport) P-N 47,323
Lihue (Lihu?e) LIH LIH PHLI Lihue Airport (Lihu?e Airport) P-S 1,315,141
IDAHO
Boise BOI BOI KBOI Boise Airport (Boise Air Terminal) (Gowen Field) P-S 1,313,741
Hailey SUN SUN KSUN Friedman Memorial Airport P-N 52,393
Idaho Falls IDA IDA KIDA Idaho Falls Regional Airport (Fanning Field) P-N 147,073
Lewiston LWS LWS KLWS Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport P-N 62,209
Pocatello / Arbon Valley PIH PIH KPIH Pocatello Regional Airport P-N 23,775
Twin Falls TWF TWF KTWF Magic Valley Regional Airport (Joslin Field) P-N 28,601
ILLINOIS
Belleville BLV BLV KBLV MidAmerica St. Louis Airport / Scott Air Force Base P-N 13,542
Bloomington / Normal BMI BMI KBMI Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal P-N 211,957
Champaign / Urbana CMI CMI KCMI University of Illinois - Willard Airport P-N 84,853
Chicago ORD ORD KORD Chicago O'Hare International Airport P-L 32,278,906
Chicago MDW MDW KMDW Chicago Midway International Airport P-L 9,919,985
Marion MWA MWA KMWA Williamson County Regional Airport P-N 11,241
Moline MLI MLI KMLI Quad City International Airport P-N 384,198
Peoria PIA PIA KPIA General Downing - Peoria International Airport P-M 491,000
Quincy UIN UIN KUIN Quincy Regional Airport (Baldwin Field) P-N 10,679
Rockford RFD RFD KRFD Chicago Rockford International Airport P-N 109,384
Springfield SPI SPI KSPI Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport P-N 70,685
INDIANA
Evansville EVV EVV KEVV Evansville Regional Airport P-N 161,279
Fort Wayne FWA FWA KFWA Fort Wayne International Airport P-N 294,968
Indianapolis IND IND KIND Indianapolis International Airport P-M 3,535,579
South Bend SBN SBN KSBN South Bend International Airport (was South Bend Regional) P-N 329,403
IOWA
Cedar Rapids CID CID KCID The Eastern Iowa Airport P-S 520,360
Des Moines DSM DSM KDSM Des Moines International Airport P-S 1,079,189
Dubuque DBQ DBQ KDBQ Dubuque Regional Airport P-N 33,465
Sioux City SUX SUX KSUX Sioux Gateway Airport (Col. Bud Day Field) P-N 25,313
Waterloo ALO ALO KALO Waterloo Regional Airport P-N 20,984
KANSAS
Garden City GCK GCK KGCK Garden City Regional Airport P-N 24,456
Manhattan MHK MHK KMHK Manhattan Regional Airport P-N 65,683
Wichita ICT ICT KICT Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (formerly Wichita Mid-Continent Airport) P-S 736,220
KENTUCKY
Covington CVG CVG KCVG Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport P-M 2,776,377
Lexington LEX LEX KLEX Blue Grass Airport P-S 604,091
Louisville SDF SDF KSDF Louisville International Airport (Standiford Field) P-S 1,669,470
Owensboro OWB OWB KOWB Owensboro-Daviess County Regional Airport P-N 21,751
Paducah PAH PAH KPAH Barkley Regional Airport P-N 20,523
LOUISIANA
Alexandria AEX AEX KAEX Alexandria International Airport P-N 183,899
Baton Rouge BTR BTR KBTR Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (Ryan Field) P-S 401,035
Lafayette LFT LFT KLFT Lafayette Regional Airport P-N 233,498
Lake Charles LCH LCH KLCH Lake Charles Regional Airport P-N 65,281
Monroe MLU MLU KMLU Monroe Regional Airport P-N 115,757
New Orleans MSY MSY KMSY Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport P-M 4,577,498
Shreveport SHV SHV KSHV Shreveport Regional Airport P-N 279,897
MAINE
Bangor BGR BGR KBGR Bangor International Airport P-N 265,245
Bar Harbor BHB BHB KBHB Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport P-N 10,625
Portland PWM PWM KPWM Portland International Jetport P-S 837,335
Presque Isle PQI PQI KPQI Northern Maine Regional Airport at Presque Isle P-N 11,488
Rockland RKD RKD KRKD Knox County Regional Airport P-N 15,724
MARYLAND
Baltimore / Glen Burnie BWI BWI KBWI Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport P-L 11,134,130
Salisbury SBY SBY KSBY Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport P-N 62,670
Hagerstown HGR HGR KHGR Hagerstown Regional Airport (Richard A. Henson Field) P-N 12,941
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston BOS BOS KBOS Gen. Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport P-L 15,425,869
Hyannis HYA HYA KHYA Barnstable Municipal Airport (Boardman/Polando Field) P-N 85,184
Nantucket ACK ACK KACK Nantucket Memorial Airport P-N 170,361
New Bedford EWB EWB KEWB New Bedford Regional Airport CS 8,159
Provincetown PVC PVC KPVC Provincetown Municipal Airport P-N 10,410
Vineyard Haven MVY MVY KMVY Martha's Vineyard Airport P-N 52,362
MICHIGAN
Alpena APN APN KAPN Alpena County Regional Airport P-N 15,914
Charlevoix CVX CVX KCVX Charlevoix Municipal Airport P-N 16,929
Detroit / Romulus DTW DTW KDTW Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport P-L 15,683,787
Escanaba ESC ESC KESC Delta County Airport P-N 15,110
Flint FNT FNT KFNT Bishop International Airport P-S 398,132
Grand Rapids GRR GRR KGRR Gerald R. Ford International Airport P-S 1,123,257
Hancock / Calumet CMX CMX KCMX Houghton County Memorial Airport P-N 25,312
Iron Mountain / Kingsford IMT IMT KIMT Ford Airport P-N 11,271
Kalamazoo / Battle Creek AZO AZO KAZO Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport P-N 129,211
Lansing LAN LAN KLAN Capital Region International Airport (was Lansing Capital City) P-N 216,925
Marquette / Gwinn SAW MQT KSAW Sawyer International Airport P-N 42,355
Muskegon MKG MKG KMKG Muskegon County Airport P-N 18,020
Pellston PLN PLN KPLN Pellston Regional Airport of Emmet County P-N 27,281
Saginaw MBS MBS KMBS MBS International Airport P-N 120,689
Sault Ste. Marie CIU CIU KCIU Chippewa County International Airport P-N 21,827
Traverse City TVC TVC KTVC Cherry Capital Airport P-N 189,644
MINNESOTA
Bemidji BJI BJI KBJI Bemidji Regional Airport P-N 22,819
Brainerd BRD BRD KBRD Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport P-N 15,654
Duluth DLH DLH KDLH Duluth International Airport P-N 155,455
Hibbing HIB HIB KHIB Range Regional Airport (was Chisholm–Hibbing Airport) P-N 11,669
International Falls INL INL KINL Falls International Airport P-N 15,796
Minneapolis MSP MSP KMSP Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (Wold–Chamberlain Field) P-L 16,282,038
Rochester RST RST KRST Rochester International Airport P-N 110,104
St. Cloud STC STC KSTC St. Cloud Regional Airport P-N 15,842
MISSISSIPPI
Columbus / West Point / Starkville GTR GTR KGTR Golden Triangle Regional Airport P-N 41,140
Gulfport / Biloxi GPT GPT KGPT Gulfport–Biloxi International Airport P-N 369,597
Hattiesburg / Laurel PIB PIB KPIB Hattiesburg–Laurel Regional Airport P-N 10,633
Jackson JAN JAN KJAN Jackson–Evers International Airport P-S 596,045
MISSOURI
Columbia COU COU KCOU Columbia Regional Airport P-N 45,714
Joplin JLN JLN KJLN Joplin Regional Airport P-N 23,329
Kansas City MCI MCI KMCI Kansas City International Airport P-M 4,836,221
Springfield SGF SGF KSGF Springfield-Branson National Airport P-N 368,752
St. Louis STL STL KSTL Lambert-St. Louis International Airport P-M 6,213,972
MONTANA
Billings BIL BIL KBIL Billings Logan International Airport P-S 387,368
Bozeman BZN BZN KBZN Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (was Gallatin Field Airport) P-S 442,788
Butte BTM BTM KBTM Bert Mooney Airport P-N 29,490
Great Falls GTF GTF KGTF Great Falls International Airport P-N 182,390
Helena HLN HLN KHLN Helena Regional Airport P-N 97,310
Kalispell GPI FCA KGPI Glacier Park International Airport P-N 199,701
Missoula MSO MSO KMSO Missoula International Airport P-N 298,253
NEBRASKA
Grand Island GRI GRI KGRI Central Nebraska Regional Airport P-N 57,165
Kearney EAR EAR KEAR Kearney Regional Airport (was Kearney Municipal) P-N 13,096
Lincoln LNK LNK KLNK Lincoln Airport (was Lincoln Municipal) P-N 138,787
Omaha OMA OMA KOMA Eppley Airfield P-M 1,977,480
Scottsbluff BFF BFF KBFF Western Nebraska Regional Airport (William B. Heilig Field) P-N 10,155
NEVADA
Boulder City BVU BLD KBVU Boulder City Municipal Airport P-N 103,972
Elko EKO EKO KEKO Elko Regional Airport (J.C. Harris Field) P-N 19,510
Las Vegas LAS LAS KLAS McCarran International Airport P-L 19,923,594
Reno RNO RNO KRNO Reno/Tahoe International Airport P-S 1,672,139
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Lebanon LEB LEB KLEB Lebanon Municipal Airport P-N 10,953
Manchester MHT MHT KMHT Manchester–Boston Regional Airport P-S 1,190,082
NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City ACY ACY KACY Atlantic City International Airport P-S 534,204
Trenton TTN TTN KTTN Trenton Mercer Airport P-N 148,256
Newark EWR EWR KEWR Newark Liberty International Airport P-L 17,514,139
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque ABQ ABQ KABQ Albuquerque International Sunport P-M 2,477,960
Farmington FMN FMN KFMN Four Corners Regional Airport P-N 14,263
Hobbs HOB HOB KHOB Lea County Regional Airport P-N 17,246
Roswell ROW ROW KROW Roswell International Air Center P-N 32,616
Santa Fe SAF SAF KSAF Santa Fe Municipal Airport (scheduled passenger service resumed 2009) P-N 65,845
NEW YORK
Albany ALB ALB KALB Albany International Airport P-S 1,196,753
Binghamton BGM BGM KBGM Greater Binghamton Airport (Edwin A. Link Field) P-N 95,210
Buffalo BUF BUF KBUF Buffalo Niagara International Airport P-M 2,568,018
Elmira / Corning ELM ELM KELM Elmira/Corning Regional Airport P-N 129,749
Islip ISP ISP KISP Long Island MacArthur Airport P-S 662,612
Ithaca ITH ITH KITH Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport P-N 103,722
New York JFK JFK KJFK John F. Kennedy International Airport P-L 25,036,855
New York LGA LGA KLGA LaGuardia Airport (and Marine Air Terminal) P-L 13,353,365
Newburgh SWF SWF KSWF Stewart International Airport P-N 163,815
Niagara Falls IAG IAG KIAG Niagara Falls International Airport P-N 98,958
Plattsburgh PBG PBG KPBG Plattsburgh International Airport P-N 151,235
Rochester ROC ROC KROC Greater Rochester International Airport P-S 1,209,532
Syracuse SYR SYR KSYR Syracuse Hancock International Airport P-S 991,663
Watertown ART ART KART Watertown International Airport P-N 18,818
White Plains HPN HPN KHPN Westchester County Airport P-S 770,550
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville AVL AVL KAVL Asheville Regional Airport P-N 342,731
Charlotte CLT CLT KCLT Charlotte/Douglas International Airport P-L 21,347,428
Fayetteville FAY FAY KFAY Fayetteville Regional Airport (Grannis Field) P-N 244,345
Greensboro GSO GSO KGSO Piedmont Triad International Airport P-S 860,124
Greenville PGV PGV KPGV Pitt-Greenville Airport P-N 60,020
Jacksonville OAJ OAJ KOAJ Albert J. Ellis Airport P-N 167,528
New Bern EWN EWN KEWN Coastal Carolina Regional Airport (was Craven County Regional) P-N 121,479
Raleigh RDU RDU KRDU Raleigh-Durham International Airport P-M 4,482,973
Wilmington ILM ILM KILM Wilmington International Airport P-S 397,737
NORTH DAKOTA
Bismarck BIS BIS KBIS Bismarck Municipal Airport P-N 238,929
Dickinson DIK DIK KDIK Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport P-N 34,979
Fargo FAR FAR KFAR Hector International Airport P-S 403,786
Grand Forks GFK GFK KGFK Grand Forks International Airport P-N 148,663
Minot MOT MOT KMOT Minot International Airport P-N 220,787
Williston ISN ISN KISN Sloulin Field International Airport P-N 96,078
OHIO
Akron / Canton CAK CAK KCAK Akron-Canton Regional Airport P-S 852,332
Cleveland CLE CLE KCLE Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport P-M 4,375,822
Columbus CMH CMH KCMH Port Columbus International Airport P-M 3,065,569
Columbus LCK LCK KLCK Rickenbacker International Airport P-N 17,765
Dayton DAY DAY KDAY James M. Cox Dayton International Airport P-S 1,244,841
Toledo TOL TOL KTOL Toledo Express Airport P-N 86,221
Youngstown / Warren YNG YNG KYNG Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport / Youngstown ARS P-N 47,518
OKLAHOMA
Lawton LAW LAW KLAW Lawton–Fort Sill Regional Airport P-N 55,526
Oklahoma City OKC OKC KOKC Will Rogers World Airport P-S 1,790,407
Tulsa TUL TUL KTUL Tulsa International Airport P-S 1,323,943
OREGON
Eugene EUG EUG KEUG Eugene Airport (Mahlon Sweet Field) P-S 434,095
Klamath Falls LMT LMT KLMT Klamath Falls Airport (Kingsley Field) P-N 13,433
Medford MFR MFR KMFR Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport P-N 306,450
North Bend OTH OTH KOTH Southwest Oregon Regional Airport (was North Bend Municipal) P-N 16,864
Portland PDX PDX KPDX Portland International Airport P-L 7,453,098
Redmond RDM RDM KRDM Redmond Municipal Airport (Roberts Field) P-N 236,303
PENNSYLVANIA
Allentown ABE ABE KABE Lehigh Valley International Airport P-N 301,969
Erie ERI ERI KERI Erie International Airport (Tom Ridge Field) P-N 109,520
Harrisburg / Middletown MDT MDT KMDT Harrisburg International Airport P-S 657,650
Latrobe LBE LBE KLBE Arnold Palmer Regional Airport P-N 127,040
Philadelphia PHL PHL KPHL Philadelphia International Airport P-L 14,705,014
Pittsburgh PIT PIT KPIT Pittsburgh International Airport P-M 3,813,007
State College UNV SCE KUNV University Park Airport P-N 131,220
Wilkes-Barre / Scranton AVP AVP KAVP Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport P-N 216,536
Williamsport IPT IPT KIPT Williamsport Regional Airport P-N 23,371
RHODE ISLAND
Providence / Warwick PVD PVD KPVD Theodore Francis Green State Airport P-M 1,951,566
Westerly WST WST KWST Westerly State Airport P-N 11,402
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston CHS CHS KCHS Charleston International Airport / Charleston AFB P-S 2,593,063
Columbia CAE CAE KCAE Columbia Metropolitan Airport P-S 491,921
Florence FLO FLO KFLO Florence Regional Airport P-N 67,745
Greer GSP GSP KGSP Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (Roger Milliken Field) P-S 936,288
Hilton Head Island HXD HHH KHXD Hilton Head Airport P-N 61,705
Myrtle Beach MYR MYR KMYR Myrtle Beach International Airport P-S 722,775
SOUTH DAKOTA
Aberdeen ABR ABR KABR Aberdeen Regional Airport P-N 20,089
Pierre PIR PIR KPIR Pierre Regional Airport P-N 14,686
Rapid City RAP RAP KRAP Rapid City Regional Airport P-N 284,126
Sioux Falls FSD FSD KFSD Sioux Falls Regional Airport (Joe Foss Field) P-N 355,939
TENNESSEE
Bristol / Johnson City / Kingsport TRI TRI KTRI Tri-Cities Regional Airport (Tri-Cities Regional TN/VA) P-N 202,114
Chattanooga CHA CHA KCHA Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Lovell Field) P-N 292,830
Knoxville TYS TYS KTYS McGhee Tyson Airport P-S 804,917
Memphis MEM MEM KMEM Memphis International Airport P-M 4,930,935
Nashville BNA BNA KBNA Nashville International Airport (Berry Field) P-M 4,432,527
TEXAS
Abilene ABI ABI KABI Abilene Regional Airport P-N 73,605
Amarillo AMA AMA KAMA Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport P-S 394,593
Austin AUS AUS KAUS Austin-Bergstrom International Airport P-M 4,201,136
Beaumont / Port Arthur BPT BPT KBPT Jack Brooks Regional Airport (was Southeast Texas Regional) P-N 17,394
Brownsville BRO BRO KBRO Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport P-N 84,401
College Station CLL CLL KCLL Easterwood Airport (Easterwood Field) P-N 72,188
Corpus Christi / Kingsville CRP CRP KCRP Corpus Christi International Airport P-S 339,193
Dallas DAL DAL KDAL Dallas Love Field P-M 3,783,407
Dallas-Fort Worth DFW DFW KDFW Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport P-L 27,100,656
Del Rio DRT DRT KDRT Del Rio International Airport P-N 13,180
El Paso ELP ELP KELP El Paso International Airport P-S 1,509,093
Fort Hood / Killeen / Temple GRK GRK KGRK Killeen-Fort Hood Regional Airport / Robert Gray Army Airfield P-N 243,861
Harlingen HRL HRL KHRL Valley International Airport P-S 373,438
Houston IAH IAH KIAH George Bush Intercontinental Airport P-L 19,528,631
Houston HOU HOU KHOU William P. Hobby Airport P-M 4,357,835
Laredo LRD LRD KLRD Laredo International Airport P-N 112,520
Longview GGG GGG KGGG East Texas Regional Airport P-N 21,830
Lubbock LBB LBB KLBB Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport P-S 508,858
McAllen MFE MFE KMFE McAllen-Miller International Airport (McAllen Miller International) P-S 344,302
Midland MAF MAF KMAF Midland International Airport P-S 445,043
San Angelo SJT SJT KSJT San Angelo Regional Airport (Mathis Field) P-N 56,021
San Antonio SAT SAT KSAT San Antonio International Airport P-M 3,916,320
Tyler TYR TYR KTYR Tyler Pounds Regional Airport P-N 74,357
Waco ACT ACT KACT Waco Regional Airport P-N 61,401
Wichita Falls SPS SPS KSPS Wichita Falls Municipal Airport / Sheppard Air Force Base P-N 44,296
UTAH
Provo PVU PVU KPVU Provo Municipal Airport (14,858 enplanements in 2011)[1] P-N [nb 3] 1,124
Salt Lake City SLC SLC KSLC Salt Lake City International Airport P-L 9,910,493
St. George / Beaver SGU SGU KSGU St. George Regional Airport (opened 2011) P-N [nb 4] 37,596
Wendover ENV ENV KENV Wendover Airport (charter flights) P-N [nb 5] 50,734
VERMONT
Burlington BTV BTV KBTV Burlington International Airport P-S 640,790
VIRGINIA
Charlottesville CHO CHO KCHO Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport P-N 197,776
Lynchburg LYH LYH KLYH Lynchburg Regional Airport (Preston Glenn Field) P-N 93,772
Newport News PHF PHF KPHF Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport P-S 519,906
Norfolk ORF ORF KORF Norfolk International Airport P-S 1,663,294
Richmond RIC RIC KRIC Richmond International Airport (Byrd Field) P-S 1,651,131
Roanoke ROA ROA KROA Roanoke Regional Airport (Woodrum Field) P-N 316,478
Staunton / Waynesboro / Harrisonburg SHD SHD KSHD Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport P-N [nb 6] 10,408
Washington, D.C. / Arlington County DCA DCA KDCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport P-L 8,736,804
Washington, D.C. / Dulles / Chantilly IAD IAD KIAD Washington Dulles International Airport P-L 11,276,481
WASHINGTON
Bellingham BLI BLI KBLI Bellingham International Airport P-N 398,368
Friday Harbor FHR FRD KFHR Friday Harbor Airport P-N 12,381
Pasco PSC PSC KPSC Tri-Cities Airport P-N 312,915
Port Angeles CLM CLM KCLM William R. Fairchild International Airport P-N 10,616
Pullman / Moscow, Idaho PUW PUW KPUW Pullman/Moscow Regional Airport P-N 35,248
Seattle BFI BFI KBFI King County International Airport (Boeing Field) P-N 33,656
Seattle / Tacoma (SeaTac) SEA SEA KSEA Seattle–Tacoma International Airport P-L 15,406,243
Spokane GEG GEG KGEG Spokane International Airport (Geiger Field) P-S 1,545,115
Walla Walla ALW ALW KALW Walla Walla Regional Airport P-N 29,064
Wenatchee EAT EAT KEAT Pangborn Memorial Airport P-N 46,837
Yakima YKM YKM KYKM Yakima Air Terminal (McAllister Field) P-N 53,832
WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston CRW CRW KCRW Yeager Airport P-N 264,818
Clarksburg CKB CKB KCKB North Central West Virginia Airport (was Harrison-Marion Regional) P-N 10,694
Huntington HTS HTS KHTS Tri-State Airport (Milton J. Ferguson Field) P-N 115,263
Lewisburg LWB LWB KLWB Greenbrier Valley Airport P-N [nb 7] 12,293
Morgantown MGW MGW KMGW Morgantown Municipal Airport (Walter L. Bill Hart Field) P-N 11,249
WISCONSIN
Appleton ATW ATW KATW Outagamie County Regional Airport P-N 259,340
Eau Claire EAU EAU KEAU Chippewa Valley Regional Airport P-N 18,762
Green Bay GRB GRB KGRB Austin Straubel International Airport P-S 410,348
La Crosse LSE LSE KLSE La Crosse Regional Airport P-N 111,462
Madison MSN MSN KMSN Dane County Regional Airport (Truax Field) P-S 728,075
Milwaukee MKE MKE KMKE General Mitchell International Airport P-M 3,861,333
Wausau CWA CWA KCWA Central Wisconsin Airport P-N 154,312
Rhinelander RHI RHI KRHI Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport P-N 26,193
WYOMING
Casper CPR CPR KCPR Casper/Natrona County International Airport P-N 74,167
Cheyenne CYS CYS KCYS Cheyenne Regional Airport (Jerry Olson Field) P-N 16,697
Cody COD COD KCOD Yellowstone Regional Airport P-N 25,863
Gillette GCC GCC KGCC Gillette-Campbell County Airport P-N 28,232 These are lists of the busiest airports in the United States, based on various ranking criteria.
Contents [hide]
1 Busiest US airports by total passenger boardings
2 45 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic (2014)
3 10 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2012)
4 10 busiest airports in the US by total cargo throughput (2014)
5 References
6 See also
7 External links
Busiest US airports by total passenger boardings[edit]
[1] The FAA uses passenger boarding for a full calendar year to determine AIP entitlements. The term hub is used by the FAA to identify very busy commercial service airports. For instance, large hubs are those airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and one percent of the total passenger enplanements.
In Calendar year 2014 (preliminary FAA data) there were 30 Large Hubs and 31 Medium Hubs.
Rank
(2014 (preliminary data)) Airports (large hubs) IATA
Code Major city served State 2014[2] 2013[3] 2012[4] 2011[5] 2010[6] 2009[7] 2008[7] 2007[8] 2006[9] 2005[10]
1 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport ATL Atlanta GA 46,604,273 45,308,407 45,798,809 44,414,121 43,130,585 42,280,868 43,236,665 43,236,665 41,352,038 42,402,653
2 Los Angeles International Airport LAX Los Angeles CA 34,314,197 32,425,892 31,326,268 30,528,737 28,857,755 27,439,897 28,861,477 30,113,985 29,357,327 29,372,272
3 O'Hare International Airport ORD Chicago IL 33,686,811 32,317,835 32,171,743 31,892,301 32,171,831 31,135,732 33,683,991 36,521,585 36,825,097 36,720,005
4 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport DFW Dallas/Fort Worth TX 30,766,940 29,038,128 28,022,877 27,518,358 27,100,656 26,663,984 27,219,985 28,482,417 28,627,749 28,079,147
5 John F. Kennedy International Airport JFK New York NY 26,244,928 25,036,358 24,520,943 23,664,830 22,934,047 22,710,272 23,620,948 23,401,351 21,071,501 20,260,359
6 Denver International Airport DEN Denver CO 26,000,591 25,496,885 25,799,832 25,667,499 25,241,962 24,013,669 24,287,939 20,796,173 20,591,909 20,315,544
7 San Francisco International Airport SFO San Francisco CA 22,756,008 21,704,626 21,284,224 20,038,679 19,359,003 18,467,908 18,135,827 17,280,328 16,236,592 16,070,133
8 Charlotte Douglas International Airport CLT Charlotte NC 21,542,277 21,346,601 20,032,426 19,022,535 18,629,181 18,165,476 19,291,428 16,884,780 14,949,568 14,109,608
9 McCarran International Airport LAS Las Vegas NV 20,551,016 19,946,179 19,941,173 19,854,759 18,996,738 19,445,952 21,024,443 22,537,950 22,028,521 21,402,676
10 Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport PHX Phoenix AZ 20,344,867 19,525,109 19,556,189 19,750,306 18,907,171 18,559,647 19,450,576 20,767,144 20,479,291 19,032,196
11 George Bush Intercontinental Airport IAH Houston TX 19,772,054 18,952,840 19,038,958 19,306,660 19,528,631 19,290,239 20,030,898 24,117,623 22,822,111 20,799,886
12 Miami International Airport MIA Miami FL 19,468,523 19,420,089 18,987,488 18,342,158 17,017,654 16,187,768 16,377,488 16,194,162 15,664,791 15,092,763
13 Seattle–Tacoma International Airport SEA Seattle WA 17,888,080 16,690,295 16,121,123 15,971,676 15,406,243 15,273,092 15,839,504 15,419,116 14,703,928 14,359,530
14 Newark Liberty International Airport EWR Newark/New York NJ 17,680,826 17,546,506 17,035,098 16,814,092 16,571,754 16,659,441 17,599,578 18,163,652 17,804,107 16,444,959
15 Orlando International Airport MCO Orlando FL 17,278,608 16,884,524 17,159,425 17,250,415 17,017,491 16,371,016 17,288,480 17,614,679 16,807,856 16,592,133
16 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport MSP Minneapolis/St. Paul MN 16,972,678 16,280,835 15,943,751 15,895,653 15,512,487 15,551,206 16,369,324 16,962,563 17,192,410 17,971,771
17 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport DTW Detroit MI 15,775,941 15,683,523 15,599,877 15,716,865 15,643,890 15,211,402 16,998,174 17,495,135 17,483,468 17,580,363
18 Logan International Airport BOS Boston MA 15,425,869 14,810,153 14,293,675 14,171,476 13,561,814 12,566,797 12,820,489 13,783,297 13,544,552 13,214,923
19 Philadelphia International Airport PHL Philadelphia PA 14,747,112 14,727,945 14,587,631 14,883,180 14,951,254 15,002,961 15,586,852 15,656,653 15,390,848 15,376,569
20 LaGuardia Airport LGA New York NY 13,415,797 13,372,269 12,818,717 11,989,227 12,001,501 11,084,300 11,567,586 12,529,890 12,925,697 13,014,314
21 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport FLL Fort Lauderdale FL 11,987,607 11,538,140 11,445,101 11,332,466 10,829,810 10,258,118 11,020,091 11,079,250 10,204,579 10,729,468
22 Baltimore–Washington International Airport BWI Baltimore/Washington, D.C. MD 11,022,200 11,132,731 11,183,965 11,067,317 10,848,633 10,338,950 10,215,225 10,487,789 10,297,607 9,829,432
23 Washington Dulles International Airport IAD Washington, D.C. VA 10,415,948 10,570,993 10,785,683 11,043,829 11,276,481 11,132,098 11,348,775 11,789,441 11,045,217 13,032,502
24 Midway International Airport MDW Chicago IL 10,318,311 9,915,646 9,431,796 9,134,576 8,518,957 8,253,620 8,021,383 9,132,836 8,915,292 8,383,698
25 Salt Lake City International Airport SLC Salt Lake City UT 10,139,065 9,668,048 9,579,836 9,701,756 9,910,493 9,903,821 9,993,198 10,560,906 10,289,129 10,601,918
26 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport DCA Washington, D.C. VA 10,057,794 9,838,034 9,462,206 9,053,004 8,736,804 8,490,288 8,704,466 9,038,174 8,973,410 8,623,907
27 Honolulu International Airport HNL Honolulu HI 9,463,000 9,466,995 9,210,270 8,643,494 8,740,077 8,739,389 9,013,440 10,393,929 9,855,838 9,784,404
28 San Diego International Airport SAN San Diego CA 9,333,152 8,878,772 8,686,592 8,465,683 8,430,509 8,453,854 9,007,617 9,138,116 8,724,442 8,628,648
29 Tampa International Airport TPA Tampa FL 8,531,561 8,267,752 8,216,153 8,174,194 8,137,222 8,263,294 8,871,917 9,306,036 9,187,865 9,297,643
30 Portland International Airport PDX Portland OR 7,878,760 7,452,603 7,142,620 6,808,486 6,582,227 6,430,119 7,090,526 7,281,057 6,956,712 6,798,976
Rank
(2014) Airports (Medium Hubs) IATA
Code City Served State 2014[11]
31 Lambert–St. Louis International Airport STL St. Louis MO 6,108,758
32 William P. Hobby Airport HOU Houston TX 5,800,726
33 Nashville International Airport BNA Nashville TN 5,396,958
34 Austin-Bergstrom International Airport AUS Austin TX 5,219,982
35 Oakland International Airport OAK Oakland CA 5,069,257
36 Kansas City International Airport MCI Kansas City MO 4,982,722
37 Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport MSY New Orleans LA 4,870,569
38 Raleigh-Durham International Airport RDU Raleigh NC 4,673,869
39 San Jose International Airport SJC San Jose CA 4,621,003
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Ernest J Wilson III Yauco Spanish pronunciation '?auko is a city ciudad and municipality in southwestern Puerto Rico centered on the city of the same name Although the city is inland the municipality stretches to a southern coast facing the Caribbean Yauco is south of Maricao Lares and Adjuntas east of Sabana Grande and Guánica and west of Guayanilla The municipality has wards and the main city Yauco zona urbana Yauco Urban Zone It is both a principal city of the Yauco Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Ponce Yauco Coamo Combined Statistical Area
According to the United States Census Bureau the population of Yauco in the year was persons decreasing to persons in a net loss of people or of its population Its land area is square kilometers with a population density of The urban zone accounted for of its inhabitants in the census
Founded by Fernando Pacheco on February Yauco was a center for Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico in the th century due to its geographical similarity to their homeland Corsicans have contributed to many areas of life in Yauco particularly its coffee producing agriculture This has contributed to its nicknames of El Pueblo del Café City of Coffee and Los Corsos The Corsicans It is also known as La Capital Taína Taíno Capital after the native peoples of Puerto Rico
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2,381,826
57 Buffalo Niagara International Airport BUF Buffalo NY 2,378,469
58 Albuquerque International Sunport ABQ Albuquerque NM 2,354,184
59 Ontario International Airport ONT Ontario CA 2,037,346
60 Eppley Airfield OMA Omaha NE 2,020,354
61 Bob Hope Airport BUR Burbank CA 1,928,491
45 busiest US airports by total passenger traffic (2014)[edit]
Listed according to data compiled by Airports Council International North America, and ranked according to total passengers during 2014.[12]
This list has the same 45 airports as the FAA list, but the order is slightly different. The FAA ranks by passengers boarding. ACI ranks by sum of boarding, disembarking, and flying through without leaving airplane. The statistics are slightly more than twice as high.
Rank Airport name Location IATA Code Traffic Aircraft
Passengers % Chg.
2013/14 Movements % Chg.
2013/14
1 Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport Atlanta, Georgia ATL 96,178,899 Increase1.9% 868,359 Decrease4.7%
2 Los Angeles International Airport Los Angeles, California LAX 70,663,265 Increase6.0% 708,674 Increase1.7%
3 Chicago O'Hare International Airport Chicago, Illinois ORD 69,999,010 Increase4.5% 881,933 Decrease0.2%
4 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas DFW 63,554,402 Increase5.1% 679,820 Increase0.3%
5 Denver International Airport Denver, Colorado DEN 53,472,514 Increase1.7% 565,525 Decrease2.9%
6 John F. Kennedy International Airport New York, New York JFK 53,254,533 Increase5.6% 422,415 Increase4.0%
7 San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, California SFO 47,114,631 Increase4.8% 431,633 Increase2.4%
8 Charlotte Douglas International Airport Charlotte, North Carolina CLT 44,279,504 Increase1.9% 545,178 Decrease2.3%
9 McCarran International Airport Las Vegas, Nevada LAS 42,869,517 Increase4.7% 522,399 Increase0.3%
10 Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Phoenix, Arizona PHX 42,134,662 Increase4.4% 430,461 Decrease1.3%
11 George Bush Intercontinental Airport Houston, Texas IAH 41,239,700 Increase3.6% 499,802 Increase0.6%
12 Miami International Airport Miami, Florida MIA 40,941,879 Increase0.9% 402,663 Increase0.9%
13 Seattle–Tacoma International Airport SeaTac, Washington SEA 37,498,267 Increase7.7% 337,132 Increase7.3%
14 Orlando International Airport Orlando, Florida MCO 35,714,091 Increase2.7% 290,331 Decrease0.5%
15 Newark Liberty International Airport Newark, New Jersey EWR 35,610,759 Increase1.7% 395,524 Decrease4.4%
16 Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota MSP 35,147,083 Increase3.7% 412,586 Decrease4.3%
17 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Romulus, Michigan DTW 32,513,555 Increase0.4% 392 635 Decrease7.8%
18 Logan International Airport Boston, Massachusetts BOS 31,658,351 Increase4.7% 363 797 Increase0.7%
19 Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PHL 30,740,180 Increase0.8% 419,253 Decrease3.1%
20 LaGuardia Airport New York, New York LGA 26,954,588 Increase1.0% 360,834 Decrease2.7%
21 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport Fort Lauderdale, Florida FLL 24,648,306 Increase4.6% 258,344 Increase1.1%
22 Baltimore–Washington International Airport Anne Arundel County, Maryland BWI 22,312,676 Decrease0.8% 245,121 Decrease5.6%
23 Washington Dulles International Airport Dulles, Virginia IAD 21,420,385 Decrease1.7% 289,278 Decrease6.0%
24 Salt Lake City International Airport Salt Lake City, Utah SLC 21,141,610 Increase4.7% 324,955 Decrease1.7%
25 Chicago Midway International Airport Chicago, Illinois MDW 21,069,564 Increase3.5% 249,252 Decrease1.1%
26 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Arlington County, Virginia DCA 20,784,384 Increase1.9% 283,174 Decrease3.2%
27 Honolulu International Airport Honolulu, Hawaii HNL 19,972,910 Increase1.0% 280,732 Increase0.1%
28 San Diego International Airport San Diego, California SAN 18,758,751 Increase5.9% 191,761 Increase2.0%
29 Tampa International Airport Tampa, Florida TPA 17,552,707 Increase3.7% 183,987 Decrease1.3%
30 Portland International Airport Portland, Oregon PDX 15,916,512 Increase5.9% 216,253 Increase3.0%
31 Lambert–St. Louis International Airport St. Louis, Missouri STL 12,384,015 Decrease1.5% 183,920 Decrease2.3%
32 William P. Hobby Airport Houston, Texas HOU 11,945,825 Increase7.5% 182,473 Increase0.2%
33 Nashville International Airport Nashville, Tennessee BNA 11,039,634 Increase6.6% 176,269 Increase0.3%
34 Austin–Bergstrom International Airport Austin, Texas AUS 10,718,854 Increase7.0% 182,468 Increase3.3%
35 Oakland International Airport Oakland, California OAK 10,336,788 Increase6.1% 203,694 Increase1.2%
36 Kansas City International Airport Kansas City, Missouri MCI 10,166,881 Increase3.0% N/A N/A
37 Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport New Orleans, Louisiana MSY 9,942,767 Increase6.4% N/A N/A
38 Raleigh–Durham International Airport Wake County, North Carolina RDU 9,463,598 Increase2.9% 183,487 Decrease1.1%
39 Dallas Love Field Dallas, Texas DAL 9,413,636 Increase11.1% 182,949 Increase3.1%
40 John Wayne Airport Santa Ana, California SNA 9,386,033 Increase1.7% 269,189 Increase8.4%
41 Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport San Jose, California SJC 9,385,212 Increase6.9% N/A N/A
42 Sacramento International Airport Sacramento, California SMF 8,972,756 Increase3.3% N/A N/A
43 San Antonio International Airport San Antonio, Texas SAT 8,369,628 Increase1.4% N/A N/A
44 Pittsburgh International Airport Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PIT 7,998,970 Increase1.5% N/A N/A
45 Southwest Florida International Airport Fort Myers, Florida RSW 7,970,493 Increase4.4% N/A N/A
10 busiest US airports by international passenger traffic (2012)[edit]
Listed according to data compiled by the Office of Aviation Analysis, part of the United States Department of Transportation, and ranked according to total international passengers during 2012.[12]
Rank Airport Name Location IATA Code Traffic Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Santa Barbara's climate is often described as Mediterranean, and the city has been promoted as the "American Riviera".[11] As of 2014, the city had an estimated population of 91,196,[9] up from 88,410 in 2010, making it the second most populous city in the county after Santa Maria[12] while the contiguous urban area, which includes the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate population of 220,000. The population of the entire county in 2010 was 423,895.[13]
In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city economy includes a large service sector, education, technology, health care, finance, agriculture, manufacturing, and local government. In 2004, the service sector accounted for fully 35% of local employment.[14] Education in particular is well represented, with five institutions of higher learning on the south coast (the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, Westmont College, Antioch University, and the Brooks Institute of Photography). The Santa Barbara Airport serves the city, as does Amtrak. U.S. Highway 101 connects the Santa Barbara area with Los Angeles to the southeast and San Francisco to the northwest. Behind the city, in and beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains, is the Los Padres National Forest, which contains several remote wilderness areas. Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary are located approximately 20 miles (32 km) offshore.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Spanish period
1.2 Mexican and Rancho period
1.3 Middle and late 19th century
1.4 Early 20th century to World War II
1.5 After World War II
1.5.1 Notable wildfires
2 Geography
2.1 Climate
2.2 Geology and Soils
2.3 Architecture
2.4 Neighborhoods
3 Demographics
3.1 2010
3.2 2000
4 Economy
4.1 Top employers
5 Arts and culture
5.1 Performing arts
5.2 Tourist attractions
5.3 Restaurants
5.4 Museums
6 Parks and recreation
7 Government
8 Education
8.1 Colleges and universities
8.1.1 Research university
8.1.2 Liberal arts colleges
8.1.3 Community college
8.1.4 Trade schools
8.1.5 Conservatory
8.1.6 Non-research graduate schools
8.2 High schools
8.3 Junior high/middle schools
8.4 Elementary schools
8.5 Private schools
9 Media
9.1 Print
9.2 Television
9.3 Radio
10 Infrastructure
10.1 Transportation
11 Sister cities
12 In popular culture
13 See also
14 Notes
15 References
16 External links
History[edit]
Main article: History of Santa Barbara, California
Evidence of human habitation of the area begins at least 13,000 years ago. Evidence for a Paleoindian presence includes a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western 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.[citation needed]
Five Chumash villages flourished in the area. The present-day area of Santa Barbara City College was the village of Mispu; the site of the El Baño pool (along west beach, was the village of Syukhtun, chief Yanonalit’s large village located between Bath and Chapala streets; Amolomol was at the mouth of Mission Creek; and Swetete, above the bird refuge.[15]
Spanish period[edit]
Mission Santa Barbara, known as "the Queen of the Missions," was founded in 1786.
Portuguese explorer João 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 Sebastián Vizcaíno gave the name "Santa Barbara" to the channel and also to one of the Channel Islands.[16]
A land expedition led by Gaspar de Portolà visited in 1769, and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi, who accompanied the expedition, named a large native town "Laguna de la Concepcion". Cabrillo's earlier name, however, is the one that has survived.
The first permanent European residents were Spanish missionaries and soldiers under Felipe de Neve, who came in 1782 to build the Presidio. They were sent both to fortify the region against expansion by other powers such as England and Russia, and to convert the natives to Christianity. Many of the Spaniards brought their families with them, and those formed the nucleus of the small town – at first just a cluster of adobes – that surrounded the Presidio. The Santa Barbara Mission was established on the Feast of Saint Barbara, December 4, 1786. It was the tenth of the California Missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans. [1] It was dedicated by Padre Fermín Lasuén, who succeeded Padre Junipero Serra as the second president and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain. The Mission fathers began the slow work of converting the native Chumash to Christianity, building a village for them on the Mission grounds. The Chumash laborers built a connection between the canyon creek and the Santa Barbara Mission water system through the use of a dam and an aqueduct.[17] During the following decades, many of the natives died of diseases such as smallpox, against which they had no natural immunity.[18]
The most dramatic event of the Spanish period was the powerful 1812 earthquake, and tsunami, with an estimated magnitude of 7.1, which destroyed the Mission as well as the rest of the town; water reached as high as present-day Anapamu street, and carried a ship half a mile up Refugio Canyon.[19][20] The Mission was rebuilt by 1820 after the earthquake [21] Following the earthquake, the Mission fathers chose to rebuild in a grander manner, and it is this construction that survives to the present day, the best-preserved of the California Missions.
The Spanish period ended in 1822 with the end of the Mexican War of Independence, which terminated 300 years of colonial rule. The flag of Mexico went up the flagpole at the Presidio, but only for 24 years.
Santa Barbara street names reflect this time period as well. The names de le Guerra and Carrillo come from citizens of the town of this time. They help to build up the town so they were honored by naming not only streets after them, but the dining commons at UCSB are also named after them.[22]
Mexican and Rancho period[edit]
After the forced secularization of the Missions in 1833, successive Mexican Governors distributed the large land tracts formerly held by the Franciscan Order to various families in order to reward service or build alliances. These land grants to local notable families mark the beginning of the "Rancho Period" in California and Santa Barbara history. The population remained sparse, with enormous cattle operations run by wealthy families. It was during this period that Richard Henry Dana, Jr. first visited Santa Barbara and wrote about the culture and people of Santa Barbara in his book Two Years Before the Mast.
Mural Room (formerly Board of Supervisors' Hearing Room) within the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. Wall murals depict the history of Santa Barbara. The room is used occasionally as a courtroom.
Santa Barbara fell bloodlessly to a battalion of American soldiers under John C. Frémont on December 27, 1846, during the Mexican–American War, and after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 it became part of the expanding United States.
Middle and late 19th century[edit]
State Street in the 1880s looking north from Canon Perdido Street
Change came quickly after Santa Barbara's acquisition by the United States. The population doubled between 1850 and 1860. In 1851, land surveyor Salisbury Haley designed the street grid, famously botching the block measurements, misaligning the streets, thereby creating doglegs at certain intersections.[23] Wood construction replaced adobe as American settlers moved in; during the Gold Rush years and following, the town became a haven for bandits and gamblers, and a dangerous and lawless place. Charismatic gambler and highwayman Jack Powers had virtual control of the town in the early 1850s, until driven out by a posse organized in San Luis Obispo. English gradually supplanted Spanish as the language of daily life, becoming the language of official record in 1870.[24] The first newspaper, the Santa Barbara Gazette, was founded in 1855.[25]
While the Civil War had little effect on Santa Barbara, the disastrous drought of 1863 ended the Rancho Period, as most of the cattle died and ranchos were broken up and sold. Mortimer Cook, a wealthy entrepreneur, arrived in 1871 and opened the city's first bank. Cook later served two terms as mayor.[26] Cook founded the first National Gold Bank of Santa Barbara in 1873. The building of Stearns Wharf in 1872 enhanced Santa Barbara's commercial and tourist accessibility; previously goods and visitors had to transfer from steamboats to smaller craft to row ashore. During the 1870s, writer Charles Nordhoff promoted the town as a health resort and destination for well-to-do travelers from other parts of the U.S.; many of them came, and many stayed. The luxurious Arlington Hotel dated from this period. In 1887 the railroad finally went through to Los Angeles, and in 1901 to San Francisco: Santa Barbara was now easily accessible by land and by sea, and subsequent development was brisk.[27]
Peter J. Barber, an architect, designed many Late Victorian style residences, and served twice as mayor, in 1880 and again in 1890. A year after Barber's term as mayor, President Benjamin Harrison became the first of five presidents to visit Santa Barbara.[28]
Early 20th century to World War II[edit]
Just before the turn of the 20th century, oil was discovered at the Summerland Oil Field, and the region along the beach east of Santa Barbara sprouted numerous oil derricks and piers for drilling offshore. This was the first offshore oil development in the world; oil drilling offshore would become a contentious practice in the Santa Barbara area, which continues to the present day.[29]
Santa Barbara housed the world's largest movie studio during the era of silent film. Flying A Studios, a division of the American Film Manufacturing Company, operated on two city blocks centered at State and Mission between 1910 and 1922, with the industry shutting down locally and moving to Hollywood once it outgrew the area, needing the resources of a larger city. Flying A and the other smaller local studios produced approximately 1,200 films during their tenure in Santa Barbara, of which approximately 100 survive.[30][31][32]
During this period, the Loughead Aircraft Company was established on lower State Street, and regularly tested seaplanes off of East Beach. This was the genesis of what would later become Lockheed.
The new Santa Barbara County Courthouse was dedicated on August 14, 1929.
The magnitude 6.3[33][34] earthquake of June 29, 1925, was the first destructive earthquake in California since the 1906 San Francisco quake, destroyed much of downtown Santa Barbara and killed 13 people. The earthquake caused infrastructure to collapse including the Sheffield Dam.[35] The low death toll is attributed to the early hour (6:44 a.m., before most people were out on the streets, vulnerable to falling masonry). While this quake, like the one in 1812, was centered in the Santa Barbara Channel, it caused no tsunami. It came at an opportune time for rebuilding, since a movement for architectural reform and unification around a Spanish Colonial style was already underway. Under the leadership of Pearl Chase, many of the city's famous buildings rose as part of the rebuilding process, including the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, sometimes praised as the "most beautiful public building in the United States." There is also the unfortunate incident that happened in 1907, which included a horrific train accident that took the lives of 32 people.[36]
During World War II, Santa Barbara was home to Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, and Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara at the harbor. Up the coast, west of the city, was the Army's Camp Cooke (the present-day Vandenberg Air Force Base). In the city, Hoff General Hospital treated servicemen wounded in the Pacific Theatre. 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 wartime attack by an enemy power on the U.S. mainland since the War of 1812. Although the shelling was inaccurate and only caused about $500 damage to a catwalk, panic was immediate. Many Santa Barbara residents fled, and land values plummeted to historic lows.
After World War II[edit]
After the war many of the servicemen who had seen Santa Barbara returned to stay. The population surged by 10,000 people between the end of the war and 1950. This burst of growth had dramatic consequences for the local economy and infrastructure. Highway 101 was built through town during this period, and newly built Lake Cachuma began supplying water via a tunnel dug through the mountains between 1950 and 1956.[37]
Local relations with the oil industry gradually soured through the period. Production at Summerland had ended, Elwood was winding down, and to find new fields oil companies carried out seismic exploration of the Channel using explosives, a controversial practice that local fishermen claimed harmed their catch. The culminating disaster, and one of the formative events in the modern environmental 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. Approximately 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3) of oil surged out of a huge undersea break, fouling hundreds of square miles of ocean and all the coastline from Ventura to Goleta, as well north facing beaches on the Channel Islands. 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 citizens formed GOO (Get Oil Out).[38] Santa Barbara's business community strove to attract development until the surge in the anti-growth movement in the 1970s. Many "clean" industries, especially aerospace firms such as Raytheon and Delco Electronics, moved to town in the 1950s and 1960s, bringing employees from other parts of the U.S. UCSB itself became a major employer.[38] In 1975, the city passed an ordinance restricting growth to a maximum of 85,000 residents, through zoning. Growth in the adjacent Goleta Valley could be shut down by denying water meters to developers seeking permits. As a result of these changes, growth slowed down, but prices rose sharply.[39][40]
When voters approved connection to State water supplies in 1991, parts of the city, especially outlying areas, resumed growth, but more slowly than during the boom period of the 1950s and 1960s. While the slower growth preserved the quality of life for most residents and prevented the urban sprawl notorious in the Los Angeles basin, housing in the Santa Barbara area was in short supply, and prices soared: in 2006, only six percent of residents could afford a median-value house. As a result, many people who work in Santa Barbara commute from adjacent, more affordable areas, such as Santa Maria, Lompoc, and Ventura. The resultant traffic on incoming arteries, in particular the stretch of Highway 101 between Ventura and Santa Barbara, is another problem being addressed by long-range planners.[41]
Notable wildfires[edit]
Since the middle of the twentieth century, 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 several hours, during an intense Sundowner wind event; the November 2008 Tea Fire, which destroyed 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Montecito; and the 2009 Jesusita Fire that burned 8,733 acres (35.34 km2) and destroyed 160 homes above the San Roque region of Santa Barbara.[42][43]
Geography[edit]
Looking north from a Santa Barbara street toward "the Riviera" and the Santa Ynez Mountains beyond
Santa Barbara is located 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",[44] 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. The Santa Ynez Mountains, an east–west trending range, rise dramatically behind the city, with several peaks exceeding 4,000 feet (1,200 m). Covered with chaparral and sandstone outcrops, they make a scenic backdrop to the town. Sometimes, perhaps once every three years, snow falls on the mountains, but it rarely stays for more than a few days. Nearer to town, directly east and adjacent 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").
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.0 square miles (108.8 km2), of which 19.5 square miles (51 km2) of it is land and 22.5 square miles (58 km2) of it (53.61%) is water. The high official figures for water is due to the extension of the city limit into the ocean, including a strip of city reaching out into the sea and inland again to keep the Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) within the city boundary.
Climate[edit]
Santa Barbara experiences a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen: Csb) characteristic of coastal California. Because the city lies along the ocean, onshore breezes moderate temperatures resulting in warmer winters and cooler summers compared with places farther inland. In the winter, storms reach California, some of which bring heavy rainfall. Locally the Santa Ynez mountains create an upslope flow causing higher rainfall than other coastal areas. Summers in Southern California are mostly rainless due to the presence of a high-pressure area over the eastern Pacific. In the fall, downslope winds, locally called "Sundowners", can raise temperatures into the high 90s creating a heat-wave, increasing the chance of brush fires in the foothills north of the city. Rainfall is extremely erratic and in exceptional years like 1940–1941 and 1997–1998 over 40 inches (1.0 m) of rain has fallen in a year,[45] but in dry seasons less than 6 inches (150 mm) is not unheard of. Snow sometimes covers the Santa Ynez Mountains but has not been recorded in the city itself except for a few flakes in 1939.
[hide]Climate data for Santa Barbara, California (1981–2010 Normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 89
(32) 89
(32) 96
(36) 101
(38) 101
(38) 103
(39) 108
(42) 99
(37) 105
(41) 103
(39) 97
(36) 92
(33) 108
(42)
Average high °F (°C) 64.7
(18.2) 65.4
(18.6) 66.1
(18.9) 69.0
(20.6) 69.6
(20.9) 71.2
(21.8) 74.7
(23.7) 76.0
(24.4) 75.1
(23.9) 72.8
(22.7) 68.9
(20.5) 64.7
(18.2) 69.9
(21.1)
Average low °F (°C) 46.4
(8) 48.1
(8.9) 49.8
(9.9) 51.8
(11) 54.6
(12.6) 57.5
(14.2) 60.4
(15.8) 60.4
(15.8) 59.6
(15.3) 56.2
(13.4) 50.3
(10.2) 46.7
(8.2) 53.5
(11.9)
Record low °F (°C) 20
(-7) 27
(-3) 30
(-1) 30
(-1) 36
(2) 42
(6) 44
(7) 46
(8) 38
(3) 34
(1) 28
(-2) 25
(-4) 20
(-7)
Average rainfall inches (mm) 4.14
(105.2) 4.68
(118.9) 3.59
(91.2) 0.77
(19.6) 0.35
(8.9) 0.09
(2.3) 0.01
(0.3) 0.03
(0.8) 0.29
(7.4) 0.52
(13.2) 1.48
(37.6) 2.63
(66.8) 18.58
(472.2)
Average rainy days (= 0.01 in) 6.5 6.3 6.5 2.9 1.4 0.9 0.4 0.5 1.2 1.7 3.8 4.9 37
Source: Western Regional Climate Center[46]
Geology and Soils[edit]
Most of Santa Barbara is built on deep unconsolidated Quaternary deposits.[47] The soils are mostly well drained brown fine sandy loam of the Milpitas series.[48]
Architecture[edit]
The first Monterey-style adobe in California was built on State Street of Santa Barbara by the wealthy merchant Alpheus Thompson.[49] The dominant architectural themes of Santa Barbara are the Spanish Colonial Revival and the related Mission Revival style, encouraged through design guidelines adopted by city leaders after the 1925 earthquake destroyed much of the downtown commercial district. Residential architectural styles in Santa Barbara reflect the era of their construction. Many late 1800s Victorian homes remain downtown and in the "Upper East" neighborhood. California bungalows are common, built in the early decades of the 20th century. Spanish Colonial Revival-style homes built after 1925 are common all over the city, especially in newer upscale residential areas like Montecito and Hope Ranch.
Neighborhoods[edit]
Santa Barbara has a range of neighborhoods with distinctive histories, architectures, and cultures. While considerable consensus exists as to the identification of neighborhood names and boundaries, variations exist between observers. For example, real estate agents may use different names than those used by public utilities or municipal service providers, such as police, fire, or water services. The following is a list of neighborhoods with descriptions and comments on each.
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. "The Mesa" embodies a beach vibe. The neighborhood has beach access to Mesa Lane Beach, as well as Thousand Steps Beach. This is considered to be a desirable neighborhood due to its proximity to the ocean as well as the college. Residential development began here in the 1920s, but was interrupted by the discovery of the Mesa Oil Field. The field was quickly exhausted, and after the Second World War building of houses resumed, although the last oil tanks and sumps did not disappear until the early 1970s.[50]
Mission Canyon contains the wooded hilly area beginning at the Old Mission and extending along Foothill Road, east into Mission Canyon Road and Las Canoas Road. A popular 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. Since the past century, it has been known as "the Riviera" due to its resemblance to the Mediterranean coastal towns of France and Italy. The neighborhood has winding streets with intricate stone work terracing built by early 20th-century Italian immigrants. Most of the topography of the Riviera is relatively steep, making it particularly noteworthy for homes with outstanding views of the City of Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean.
The Westside ("west of State Street") lies predominantly 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 area 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 business 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 campus West.
Local fishermen unloading the day's catch in Santa Barbara Harbor.
Lower State Street and old town
Lower State Street, also known as the Funk Zone, is along with the Waterfront and popular with tourists. Centered on the intersection of Yanonali and Anacapa streets, the zone radiates out from here, covering the 10- to 12-block area between State and Garden squeezed between the waterfront and Highway 101. The area features commercial properties with a thriving nightlife. The area also serves as the main location for local celebrations and parades such as Old Spanish Days Fiesta.[51]
Upper State Street is a residential and commercial district that includes numerous professional offices, and much of the medical infrastructure of the city.
San Roque is located northwest of the downtown area and north of Samarkand. This area 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. San Roque is also the most popular spot for Trick-or-Treaters on Halloween.
Samarkand currently has approximately 630 homes on 184 acres (0.74 km2) with a population of about 2000 people. The name Samarkand comes from an Old Persian word meaning "the land of heart's desire." It was first applied to a deluxe Persian-style hotel that was converted from a boy’s school in 1920. Samarkand later became identified as its own neighborhood located between Las Positas, State Street, De La Vina, Oak Park and the Freeway. Earle Ovington built the first home here in 1920 at 3030 Samarkand Drive. As a pilot, Ovington established the Casa Loma Air Field with a 1,500-foot (460 m) runway that was used by legendary pilots, Lindbergh and Earheart.
Demographics[edit]
2010[edit]
City of Santa Barbara 2010 U.S Census[52]
Self-identified Race Percent of population
White alone
?
75.1%
African American
?
1.6%
Asian
?
3.5%
American Indians and Alaska Natives
?
1.0%
Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders
?
0.1%
Two or more races
?
3.9%
Some Other Race
?
14.7%
Total
?
100%
Hispanic and Latino American (of any race): 38.0%
Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1880 3,460 —
1890 5,864 69.5%
1900 6,587 12.3%
1910 11,659 77.0%
1920 19,441 66.7%
1930 33,613 72.9%
1940 34,958 4.0%
1950 44,854 28.3%
1960 58,768 31.0%
1970 70,215 19.5%
1980 74,414 6.0%
1990 85,571 15.0%
2000 92,325 7.9%
2010 88,410 -4.2%
Est. 2014 91,196 [53] 3.2%
U.S. Decennial Census[54]
The 2010 United States Census[55] reported that Santa Barbara had a population of 88,410. The population density was 2,106.6 people per square mile (813.4/km²). The racial 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 races, and 3,477 (3.9%) from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 33,591 persons (38.0%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 45,852 persons (52.2%)
The Census reported that 86,783 people (98.2% of the population) lived in households, 1,172 (1.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 455 (0.5%) were institutionalized.
Of the 35,449 households, 8,768 (24.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,240 (37.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,454 (9.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, and 1,539 (4.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 2,420 (6.8%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 339 (1.0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships; 11,937 households (33.7%) were made up of individuals and 4,340 (12.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45. There were 18,233 families (51.4% of all households); the average family size was 3.13.
The population was spread out with 16,468 people (18.6%) under the age of 18, 10,823 people (12.2%) aged 18 to 24, 26,241 people (29.7%) aged 25 to 44, 22,305 people (25.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 12,573 people (14.2%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.7 males.
There were 37,820 housing units at an average density of 901.2 per square mile (347.9/km²), of which 13,784 (38.9%) were owner-occupied, and 21,665 (61.1%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.1%; 34,056 people (38.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 52,727 people (59.6%) lived in rental housing units.
2000[edit]
As of the census[56] of 2000, 92,325 people*, 35,605 households, and 18,941 families resided in the city. The population density was 4,865.3 people per square mile (1,878.1/km²). There were 37,076 housing units at an average density of 1,953.8 per square mile (754.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 74.0% White, 1.8% African American, 1.1% Native American, 2.8% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 16.4% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races. People of Hispanic or Latino background, of any race, were 35.0% of the population.
Of the 35,605 households, 24.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.8% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.8% were not families. About 32.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.17.
In the city, the population was distributed as 19.8% under the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $47,498, and for a family was $57,880. Males had a median income of $37,116 versus $31,911 for females. The per capita income for the city was $26,466. About 7.7% of families and 13.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.8% of those under age 18 and 7.4% of those age 65 or over. If one compares the per capita income to the actual cost of living, the number of people living below the poverty line is considerably higher.
Economy[edit]
Aerospace and defense companies form the basis of the city's private employment as Alliant Techsystems, Channel Technologies Group, Citrix Online, and Raytheon have major operations in the area. Santa Barbara's tourist attractions have made the hospitality industry into a major player in the regional economy. Motel 6 was started in Santa Barbara in 1962.
Top employers[edit]
As of June 2014, the principal employers in the South Santa Barbara County were:[57]
# Employer # of Employees
1 University of California, Santa Barbara 10,403
2 County of Santa Barbara 4,652
3 Cottage Health System 2,605
4 Santa Barbara City College 2,066
5 Santa Barbara Unified School District 1,988
6 City of Santa Barbara 1,716
7 Raytheon Electronic Systems 1,300
8 Sansum Medical Foundation Clinic 1,040
9 Santa Barbara County Education Office 929
10 United States Postal Service 805
Arts and culture[edit]
Performing arts[edit]
Santa Barbara contains numerous performing art venues, including the 2,000 seat Arlington Theatre, is the largest indoor performance venue in Santa Barbara and also serves as the premise for the annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The Lobero Theatre, a historic building and favorite venue for small concerts; the Granada Theater, the tallest building downtown, originally built by contractor C.B. 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 outdoor concerts, nestled in a picturesque canyon northwest of Santa Barbara at the base of the Riviera.
Prime Ministers during the Showa period – edit Under the Showa Emperor
? Prime Minister Term of office Political Party Government Elected Ref
Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Days Gen Coun
Tetsu Katayama
?? ?
Katayama Tetsu
–
Rep for Kanagawa rd May March JSP
Nihon Shakaito Katayama
JSP–DP–PCP
Under Allied Occupation The first Prime Minister and the first socialist to serve as Prime Minister of Japan Member of Diet from to Formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party and the People s Cooperative Party
Hitoshi Ashida
?? ?
Ashida Hitoshi
–
Rep for Kyoto nd March October DP
Minshuto Ashida
DP–JSP–PCP — —
Under Allied Occupation Ashida s cabinet resigned after seven months in office due to alleged ministerial corruption in the Showa Electric scandal
Shigeru Yoshida
?? ?
Yoshida Shigeru
–
Rep for Kochi At large October February DLP
Minshu Jiyuto Yoshida II
DLP — —
February October Liberal
Jiyuto Yoshida III
Reshuffle
DLP Lib –DP
October May Yoshida IV
Liberal —
May December Yoshida V
Liberal
Under Allied Occupation until the Treaty of San Francisco came into force on April Developed the Yoshida Doctrine prioritising economic development and reliance on United States military protection
Ichiro Hatoyama
?? ??
Hatoyama Ichiro
–
Rep for Tokyo st December March JDP
Nihon Minshuto Hatoyama I I
JDP — —
March November Hatoyama I II
JDP —
November December LDP
Jiminto Hatoyama I III
LDP — —
Rebuilt diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union Favored parole for some of the Class A war criminals who had been sentenced to life imprisonment at the Tokyo Trial
Tanzan Ishibashi
?? ??
Ishibashi Tanzan
–
Rep for Shizuoka nd December February LDP
Jiminto Ishibashi
LDP —
Incapacitated due to minor stroke on January Foreign Minister Kishi Nobusuke served as Deputy Prime Minister until February
Nobusuke Kishi
? ??
Kishi Nobusuke
–
Rep for Yamaguchi st February June LDP
Jiminto Kishi I
Reshuffle
LDP — —
June July Kishi II
Reshuffle
LDP
Hayato Ikeda
?? ??
Ikeda Hayato
–
Rep for Hiroshima nd July December LDP
Jiminto Ikeda I
LDP — —
December December Ikeda II
Reshuffle
LDP
December November Ikeda III
Reshuffle
LDP —
Eisaku Sato
?? ??
Sato Eisaku
–
Rep for Yamaguchi nd November February LDP
Jiminto Sato I
Reshuffle
LDP —
February January Sato II
Reshuffle
LDP
January July Sato III
Reshuffle
Kakuei Tanaka
?? ??
Tanaka Kakuei
–
Rep for Niigata rd July December LDP
Jiminto Tanaka K I
LDP — —
December December Tanaka K II
Reshuffle
LDP —
Takeo Miki
?? ??
Miki Takeo
–
Rep for Tokushima At large December December LDP
Jiminto Miki
Reshuffle
LDP —
Takeo Fukuda
?? ??
Fukuda Takeo
–
Rep for Gunma rd December December LDP
Jiminto Fukuda T
Reshuffle
LDP
Masayoshi Ohira
?? ??
Ohira Masayoshi
–
Rep for Kagawa nd December November LDP
Jiminto Ohira I
LDP — —
November June Ohira II
LDP —
Died in office of natural causes
During this interval Chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Ito ?? ?? Ito Masayoshi was the Acting Prime Minister
Zenko Suzuki
?? ??
Suzuki Zenko
–
Rep for Iwate st July November LDP
Jiminto Suzuki Z
Reshuffle
LDP
Yasuhiro Nakasone
??? ??
Nakasone Yasuhiro
–
Rep for Gunma rd November December LDP
Jiminto Nakasone I
LDP — —
December July Nakasone II
Reshuffle
LDP–NLC
July November Nakasone III
LDP
Noboru Takeshita
?? ?
Takeshita Noboru
–
Rep for Shimane At large November June LDP
Jiminto Takeshita
Reshuffle
LDP — —
Prime Ministers during the Heisei period –present edit Under Emperor Akihito
? Prime Minister Term of office Political Party Government Elected Ref
Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Days Gen Coun
Sosuke Uno
?? ??
Uno Sosuke
–
Rep for Shiga At large June August LDP
Jiminto Uno
LDP —
Soon after he was elected Prime Minister allegations arose that he had an extramarital relationship with a geisha which damaged his reputation and his party s performance in the House of Councillors election for which he resigned He died in Served as Minister of Defense Chief of the Science and Technology Agency – Chief of the Civil Administration Agency – Minister of Economy Trade and Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs – Member of the Diet from to
Toshiki Kaifu
?? ??
Kaifu Toshiki
–
Rep for Aichi rd August February LDP
Jiminto Kaifu I
LDP — —
February November Kaifu II
Reshuffle
LDP —
Defeated in he was the longest serving member of the lower house of the Diet and he was also the first former prime minister to be defeated at a re election since Served as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary – Minister of Education – – Member of the Diet from to
Kiichi Miyazawa
?? ??
Miyazawa Kiichi
–
Rep for Hiroshima rd November August LDP
Jiminto Kiichi
Reshuffle
LDP —
Originally a bureaucrat in the Treasury Ministry he accompanied Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida at the Treaty of San Francisco A firm critic of the revision of the constitution he advocated peace throughout his political career After his party s stunning defeat in the general election he was forced to resign the Prime Ministership but became Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori from to He died in Served as Minister of Economy Trade and Industry – – – – Chief Cabinet Secretary – Minister of Finance – Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Member of the House of Councillors –
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History edit The city of Yauco was named after the river Yauco which was originally known as coayuco by the Taínos meaning "yucca plantation"
The area of Yauco was considered as the capital of "Boriken" Taíno name of Puerto Rico and was governed by Agüeybana the most powerful Taíno "cacique" chief in the island All the other Caciques were subject to and had to obey Agüeybaná even though they governed their own tribes Upon Agüeybaná s death in his nephew Güeybaná also known as Agüeybaná II became the most powerful Cacique in the island Agüeybaná II had his doubts about the "godly" status of the Spaniards He came up with a plan to test these doubts he and Urayoán cacique of Añasco sent some of their tribe members to lure a Spaniard by the name of Diego Salcedo into a river and drown him They watched over Salcedo s body to make sure that he would not resuscitate Salcedo s death was enough to convince him and the rest of the Taíno people that the Spaniards were not gods This in turn led to the failed Taíno rebellion of
In the Spanish settlers of the region built a small chapel and named it "Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario" Our Lady of the Rosary The settlers sent Fernando Pacheco as their representative to the Spanish Government to request the establishment of a municipality since one of the requisites to such a request the establishment of a place of worship had been met On February the King of Spain granted the settlers their request and the town of Yauco was established Fernando Pacheco was named First Lieutenant of War of the new town
th century Corsican immigration edit
Early Yauco Coffee Plantation Pre Main article Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico
The island of Puerto Rico is very similar in geography to the island of Corsica and therefore appealed to the many Corsicans who wanted to start a "new" life Under the Spanish Royal Decree of Graces the Corsicans and other immigrants were granted land and initially given a "Letter of Domicile" after swearing loyalty to the Spanish Crown and allegiance to the Catholic Church After five years they could request a "Letter of Naturalization" that would make them Spanish subjects Hundreds of Corsicans and their families immigrated to Puerto Rico from as early as and their numbers peaked in the s The first Spanish settlers settled and owned the land in the coastal areas the Corsicans tended to settle the mountainous southwestern region of the island primary in the towns of Adjuntas Lares Utuado Ponce Coamo Yauco Guayanilla and Guánica However it was Yauco whose rich agricultural area attracted the majority of the Corsican settlers The three main crops in Yauco were coffee sugar cane and tobacco The new settlers dedicated themselves to the cultivation of these crops and within a short period of time some were even able to own and operate their own grocery stores However it was with the cultivation of the coffee bean that they would make their fortunes Cultivation of coffee in Yauco originally began in the Rancheras and Diego Hernández sectors and later extended to the Aguas Blancas Frailes and Rubias sectors The Mariani family created a machine out of a cotton gin in the s which was used in the dehusking of coffee This represented a significant improvement in Puerto Rico s coffee appearance and an opportunity to stand out in the international coffee market By the s the Corsican settlers were the leaders of the coffee industry in Puerto Rico and seven out of ten coffee plantations were owned by Corsicans
Intentona de Yauco edit
Flag flown by Fidel Vélez and his men during the "Intentona de Yauco" revoltMain article Intentona de Yauco
The second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico s pro independence movement known as the Intentona de Yauco a k a the "Attempted Coup of Yauco" was staged in Yauco The revolt which occurred on of March was organized by Antonio Mattei Lluberas Mateo Mercado and Fidel Vélez and was backed up by leaders of "El Grito de Lares" the first major independence attempt who were in exile in New York City as members of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee
The city is considered a haven for classical music lovers with a symphony orchestra, a part-time opera company, and many non-profit classical music groups (such as CAMA). The Music Academy of the West, located in Montecito, hosts an annual music festival in the summer, drawing renowned students and professionals.
Tourist attractions[edit]
Santa Barbara Harbor
Outdoor shops in downtown Santa Barbara
Stearns Wharf. The waterfront is a popular tourist attraction.
Santa Barbara is a year-round tourist destination renowned for its fair weather, downtown beaches, and Spanish architecture. Tourism brings more than one billion dollars per year into the local economy, including $80 million in tax revenue.[58] In addition to the city's cultural assets, several iconic destinations lie within the city's limits. Mission Santa Barbara, "The Queen of the Missions," is located on a rise about two miles (3 km) inland from the harbor, and is maintained as an active place of worship, sightseeing stop, and national historic landmark. The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, a red tiled Spanish-Moorish structure, provides a sweeping view of the downtown area from its open air tower. The Presidio of Santa Barbara, a Spanish military installation and chapel built in 1782, was central to the town's early development and remains an icon of the city's colonial roots. In 1855, the Presidio Chapel, being in decay, grew into the Apostolic College of Our Lady of Sorrows, now Our Lady of Sorrows Church.[59] The present church, consecrated on the 147th anniversary of the founding of the presidio on April 21, 1929, remains one of the most beautiful churches in California.
Also famous is the annual Fiesta (originally called "Old Spanish Days"), which is celebrated every year in August. The Fiesta is hosted by the Native Daughters of the Golden West and the Native Sons of the Golden West in a joint committee called the Fiesta Board. Fiesta was originally started as a tourist attraction, like the Rose Bowl, to draw business into the town in the 1920s.
Flower Girls and Las Señoritas are another attraction of Fiesta, as they march and participate in both Fiesta Pequeña (the kickoff of Fiesta) and the various parades. Flower Girls is for girls under 13. They throw roses and other flowers into the crowds. Las Señoritas are their older escorts. Many Señoritas join the Native Daughters at the age of 16.
The annual Santa Barbara French Festival takes place Bastille Day weekend in July. This is the largest French Festival in the western United States.
New Noise Music Conference and Festival, established in 2009, is a 4-day event with the main party in the Funk Zone, a small art and wine tasting section of the city near the beach, and other small bands to local venues around the city. New Noise brings in over 75 bands and 50 speakers to the festival each year.[60]
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 people to see artwork made by artists and crafts people that live in Santa Barbara county. By the rules of the show, all the works displayed must have been made by the artists and craftspeople themselves, who must sell their own goods. The show started in the early 1960s, and now has over 200 booths varying in size and style on any Sunday of the year. The show is also held on some Saturdays that are national holidays, but not during inclement weather.
In recent years, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, another local non-profit, has also become a major draw bringing over 50,000 attendees during what is usually Santa Barbara's slow season in late January. SBIFF hosts a wide variety of celebrities, premieres, panels and movies from around the world and runs for 10 days.
The annual Summer Solstice Parade draws up to 100,000 people.[61] It is a colorful themed parade put on by local residents, and follows a route along State Street for approximately one mile, ending at Alameda Park. Its main rule is that no written messages or banners with words are allowed. Floats and costumes vary from the whimsical to the outrageous; parties and street events take place throughout the weekend of the parade, the first weekend after the solstice.
Surfing is as much a part of Santa Barbara culture as art. Bruce Brown's cult classic, The Endless Summer, put surfing on the map, and he is often seen around the town. Surfing legend Pat Curren and his son, three time world champion Tom Curren, as well as ten time world champion Kelly Slater, and other popular surf icons such as Jack Johnson call Santa Barbara home. Local surfers are known for going north to The Point, or south to Rincon.
Other tourist-centered attractions include:
Stearns Wharf – Adjacent to Santa Barbara Harbor, features shops, 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 giant Moreton Bay Fig, 80 feet (24 m) tall, which has one of the largest total shaded areas of any tree in North America
Burton Mound – on Mason Street at Burton Circle, this mound is thought to be the Chumash village of Syujton, recorded by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542, and again by Fr. Crespí and Portolá in 1769. (California Historical Landmark No. 306)
De La Guerra Plaza (Casa de la Guerra) – Site of the first City Hall, and still the center of the city's administration. (California Historical Landmark No. 307) Also the location of the Santa Barbara News Press.
Covarrubias Adobe – Built in 1817; adjacent to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum on Santa Barbara Street. (California Historical Landmark No. 308)
Hastings Adobe – Built in 1854, partially from material recovered from the wreck of the S.S. Winfield Scott. (California Historical Landmark No. 559)
Hill-Carrillo Adobe – Built in 1825 by Daniel A. Hill for his wife Rafaela L. Ortega y Olivera; currently at 11 E. Carrillo St.
Cold Spring Tavern
El Paseo Shopping Mall – California's first shopping center.
Santa Barbara Zoo
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
Channel Islands National Park
Restaurants[edit]
With its abundance of seafood, awareness of farming methods, and nearby wineries, Santa Barbara has many restaurants. In 2010, the SantaBarbara.com Restaurant Guide listed 693 separate restaurants, coffee shops and bakeries in the region.[62]
Museums[edit]
Casa de la Guerra is currently open as a museum.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), located on State Street, features nationally recognized collections and special exhibitions of international importance. Highlights of the Museum's remarkable permanent collection include antiquities; 19th-century French, British, and American art; 20th-century and contemporary European, North American, and Latin American art; Asian art; photography; and works on paper. It is also recognized for its innovative education program that serves local and surrounding communities through extensive on-site programming and curriculum resources. Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB), located on the top floor of Paseo Nuevo shopping mall, is a non-profit, non-collecting museum dedicated to the exhibition, education, and cultivation of the arts of our time. The premier venue for contemporary art between Los Angeles and San Francisco, MCASB offers free admission to its exhibitions and public programming. Other art venues include the University Art Museum on the University of California at Santa Barbara Campus, various private galleries, and a wide variety of art and photography shows. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is located immediately behind the Santa Barbara Mission in a complex of Mission-style buildings set in a park-like campus. The Museum offers indoor and outdoor exhibits and a state-of-the-art planetarium. The Santa Barbara Historical Museum is located on De La Guerra Street and offers free admission. The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is located at 113 Harbor Way (the former Naval Reserve Center Santa Barbara) on the waterfront. The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (free admission) houses a collection of historical documents and manuscripts. Two open air museums here are Lotusland and Casa del Herrero, exemplifying the American Country Place era in Santa Barbara. Casa Dolores, center for the popular arts of Mexico, is devoted to the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of an extensive variety of objects of the popular arts of Mexico.
Parks and recreation[edit]
The central meadow region of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Santa Barbara has many parks, ranging from small spaces within the urban environment to large, semi-wilderness areas that remain within the city limits. Some notable parks within the city limits are as follows:
Alameda Park
Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens
Andree Clark Bird Refuge
Butterfly Beach
De La Guerra Plaza
Douglas Family Preserve
East Beach
Elings Park
Franceschi Park
Hendry's Beach (Arroyo Burro)
Hilda Ray Park
Leadbetter Beach
Mission Historical Park
Parma Park
Shoreline Park
Skofield Park
West Beach
Some notable parks and open spaces just outside of the city limits include:
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Gould Park
Rattlesnake Canyon, a popular hiking area.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, which contains a diverse collection 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. A 6-7 mile hike from Gaviota State Park traverses the mountains with an ocean view.[63]
Government[edit]
In 2015, the city council voted to change from at-large elections to district elections for city council seats.[64]
All of Santa Barbara County falls into California's 24th congressional district. The district has a slight lean to the Democratic Party, with a PVI of D+4,[65] making it more politically moderate than California overall. The current Representative is Lois Capps,[66] a Democrat residing in Santa Barbara who has served since 1998.
Education[edit]
Colleges and universities[edit]
University of California, Santa Barbara. It is located to the west of the city and is a major contributor to the city and its demographic makeup.
Santa Barbara and the immediately adjacent area is home to several colleges and universities:
Research university[edit]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Liberal arts colleges[edit]
Westmont College
Antioch University
Community college[edit]
Santa Barbara City College
Trade schools[edit]
Brooks Institute of Photography
Paul Mitchell the School - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Business College
Conservatory[edit]
Music Academy of the West
Non-research graduate schools[edit]
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Fielding Graduate University
Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Southern California Institute of Law
Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law
High schools[edit]
Secondary and Primary School students go to the Santa Barbara and Hope district schools. There is also a variety of private schools in the area. The following schools are on the south coast of Santa Barbara County, including the cities of Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, and contiguous unincorporated areas.
The Anacapa School, 7-12
San Marcos High School, 9-12
Dos Pueblos High School, 9-12
Dos Pueblos Continuation High School, 9-12
Garden Street Academy, 9-12
Las Alturas Continuation High School, 9-12
La Cuesta/Pathfinders Continuation High School, 9-12
San Marcos Continuation High School, 9-12
Santa Barbara High School, 9-12
Laguna Blanca School K-12
Bishop Garcia Diego High School, 9-12
Cate School, 9-12
Providence A Santa Barbara Christian School, 7-12
Carpinteria High School, 9-12,
Rincon/Foothill High School, 9-12 (CUSD)
Junior high/middle schools[edit]
Carpinteria Middle School, 6-8 (CUSD)
Community Day School, 7-8
Crane Country Day School, K-8
Goleta Valley Junior High School, 7-8
La Colina Junior High School, 7-8
La Cumbre Junior High School, 7-8
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
Elementary schools[edit]
Adams Elementary School, K-6
Cesar Estrada Chavez Dual Language Immersion Charter School, K-6
Cleveland Elementary School, K-6
Cold Spring Elementary School, K-6
Coastline Christian Academy, K-8
Crane Country Day School, K-8
El Camino Elementary School, K-6
Ellwood Elementary School, K-6
Foothill Elementary School, K-6
Franklin Elementary School, K-6
Goleta Family School, K-6
Harding Elementary School, K-6
Hollister Elementary School, K-6
Hope Elementary School, K-6
Isla Vista Elementary School, K-6
Kellogg Elementary School, K-6
La Patera Elementary School, K-6
Marymount of Santa Barbara, JK-8
McKinley Elementary School, K-6
Monroe Elementary School, K-6
Monte Vista Elementary School, K-6
Montecito Union Elementary School, K-6
Mountain View Elementary School, K-6
Open Alternative School, K-8
Peabody Charter School, K-6
Roosevelt Elementary School, K-6
Santa Barbara Charter School, K-8
Santa Barbara Christian School, K-8
Santa Barbara Community Academy, K-6
Santa Barbara Montessori School, Pre-K to 8
Vieja Valley Elementary School, K-6
Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, K-8
Washington Elementary School, K-6
Canalino School, K-5 (CUSD)
Aliso School, K-6 (CUSD)
Private schools[edit]
Anacapa School, 7-12
Crane Country Day School, K-8
El Montecito Early School, Preschool
Garden Street Academy, K-12
Laguna Blanca School, K-12
Marymount of Santa Barbara, JK-8
Montessori Center School, K-6
Notre Dame School, K-8
Providence Hall, 7-12
Santa Barbara Middle School, 6-9
Santa Barbara Montessori School, Pre-K to 8
St. John of Damascus Academy, K-8
Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, K-8
Media[edit]
Print[edit]
Santa Barbara has two adjudicated, general circulation newspapers:
The daily Santa Barbara News-Press (sold by the New York Times Company in 2000 to local resident Wendy P. McCaw), with a circulation of about 25,000,
The Santa Barbara Independent, a weekly with 40,000 audited circulation.[67]
Casa Magazine , a magazine for the performing arts
Edhat, an aggregation of citizen news and links to other media websites,
Mesa Paper YOur Neighborhood Journal of life on the Mesa.
Santa Barbara Life feature guide and local directory, the Santa Barbara View Santa Barbara View, an award-winning online magazine offering news, views, and commentary,
Pacific Coast Business Times, a weekly business journal covering Santa Barbara, Ventura County and San Luis Obispo County;[68]
Noozhawk, a local affairs website, Builder/Architect Gold & Central Coast Edition; and Shape of Voice,[69] a nonprofit youth-created publication that focuses on social justice and youth issues, and
City 2.0, a local citizen blog network and news headline aggregation website.
El Latino Santa Barbara, a bilingual weekly newsletter published in English and Spanish.
Television[edit]
KEYT 3, an ABC television affiliate;
KPMR 38, a Univision affiliate
Santa Barbara Internet TV,[70] and
TV Santa Barbara; Voice-17 (Public-access television) and Culture-71 Arts & Education (formerly owned by Cox Communications).
Other television stations can be received from Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo, and Los Angeles.
Radio[edit]
KJEE (92.9 FM),
The Vibe:Hip Hop y Mas 103.3, formerly easy listening station KRUZ. It broadcasts from La Cumbre Peak at an altitude of 3,000 feet (910 m) and can be heard in San Diego despite a distance of 200 miles (320 km) because it propagates across the ocean.
KDB (93.7 FM)
KTYD (99.9 FM) and
KSBL (101.7 FM) which markets itself as KLITE and is owned by Rincon Broadcasting.
Some Los Angeles radio stations can be heard, although somewhat faintly due to the 85-mile (137 km) distance. Santa Monica-based NPR radio station 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 operated 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 radio station 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.
Infrastructure[edit]
Transportation[edit]
Santa Barbara is bisected by U.S. Route 101, an automotive transportation corridor that links the city to the rest of the Central Coast region, San Francisco to the north, and Los Angeles to the south. Santa Barbara Municipal Airport offers commercial air service. Surf Air flies four flights daily, two to San Carlos in the Silicon Valley, and two to Burbank, California. Amtrak offers rail service through the Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner trains at the train station on State Street. The Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) provides local bus service across the city, and Greyhound bus stations are located downtown. Electric shuttles operated by MTD ferry tourists and shoppers up and down lower State Street and to the wharf. 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. Ventura Intercity Service Transit Authority (VISTA) bus service offers connections south to Ventura and west to Goleta. The Clean Air Express bus offers connections to Lompoc and Santa Maria. Santa Barbara Airbus offers service to LAX from Santa Barbara and Goleta. In addition, Santa Barbara Car Free promotes visiting and exploring the area without use of a car.
Another popular car-free transportation method in Santa Barbara is bicycling. Often chosen as a winter training location for professional cycling teams and snowbirds alike, Santa Barbara has many great cycling routes and several notable climbs, including Gibraltar Road and Old San Marcos/Painted Cave. A bike path and route also connects 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 surrounding area, with resource website "Best Bike Rentals and Routes" offering links to all the major rental companies in the area.
Sister cities[edit]
City Country Year relations established
Palma Spain 1972
Dingle Ireland 2003
Puerto Vallarta Mexico 1972
San Juan Philippines 2000
Toba City Japan 1966
Weihai People's Republic of China 1993
Kotor Montenegro 2013
In popular culture[edit]
The Loud family, subjects of the very first reality television series, PBS's An American Family, called Santa Barbara home since the early 1960s (moving there from Eugene, Oregon) and throughout the series, all the family members save for Lance (who lived in New York City at the time) were filmed going about their daily lives in Santa Barbara. Bill's foundry supply company was headquartered in downtown Santa Barbara.
In the ABC television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the fictional privately owned nuclear-powered submarine Seaview was based at the equally fictional Nelson Institute of Marine Research located in Santa Barbara.
Several scenes in the film Batman (1966), starring Adam West and Burt Ward, were filmed on Stearns Wharf.
The final scene of the film The Graduate (1967) is set in Santa Barbara, but was filmed in Calabasas, California.
The 1980s soap opera Santa Barbara is set within its namesake city.
Santa Teresa is a fictional version of Santa Barbara used in the mystery novels of Ross Macdonald and Sue Grafton.
The film My Favorite Martian (1999) was filmed on location in Santa Barbara. While the opening shot shows fictional TV station KGSC Channel 10, KEYT Channel 3 was actually used for the filming location.
Several city vistas were used to represent Sunnydale on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The USA Network television series Psych features a fake psychic working for the Santa Barbara Police Department. However, the series is not filmed on location. It is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Hollywood couples including Fergie and Josh Duhamel, Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler, Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli and Martin Sheen's daughter, Casandra Estevez all celebrated their weddings at the Bacara Resort in Goleta, adjacent to Santa Barbara.
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives episodes Scratch Made Classics and Global Traditions on the Food Network each have a segment at restaurants in Santa Barbara.
The food travelogue television series $40 a Day showed an episode in Santa Barbara.
The romantic comedy film It's Complicated (2009) is set in Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara is the hometown of Grammy nominated popular singer, Katy Perry who filmed her music video "Teenage Dream" in the city.
The song "Hannah Hunt" by Vampire Weekend refers to Santa Barbara as a place where the namesake character had cried.
The city is mentioned several times in U2's song "California (There Is No End to Love)", from their album Songs of Innocence, and the bells from Mission Santa Barbara can be heard at the beginning of the song.
Pictures and Video of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, looking towards the harbor from the top of the County Courthouse, showing the distinctive red-tiled roofs
The first Motel 6, in Santa Barbara
A view of Santa Barbara from the Santa Ynez Mountain Range
Sunrise, looking across the Pacific from the hills of Santa Barbara, toward the Santa Monica Mountains.
A view of a Santa Barbara sunset looking over the ocean.
Santa Barbara, looking east from above Santa Barbara City College California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2010 United States Census, California has 37,253,956 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km2) of land.[1]
California has been inhabited by numerous Native American peoples since antiquity. The Spanish, the Russians, and other Europeans began exploring and colonizing the area in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the Spanish establishing its first California mission at what is now San Diego in 1769.[2] After the Mexican Cession of 1848, the California Gold Rush brought worldwide attention to the area. The growth of the movie industry in Los Angeles and Hollywood, high tech in Silicon Valley, tourism, agriculture, and other areas in the ensuing decades fueled the creation of a $1.85 trillion economy, the ninth-largest in the world.[3]
California is divided into 58 counties and contains 482 municipalities.[4] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names.[5] According to the 2010 Census, 30,908,614 of California's 37,253,956 residents lived in urban areas, accounting for 82.97% of the population. The first municipality to incorporate was Sacramento on February 27, 1850, while the most recent was Jurupa Valley on July 1, 2011. Eight cities were incorporated before the state's September 9, 1850, admission to the Union.[6] The largest municipality by population and land area is Los Angeles with 3,792,621 residents and 468.67 square miles (1,213.8 km2). The smallest by population is Vernon with 112 people, while the smallest by land area is Amador City at 0.31 square miles (0.80 km2).[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Cities and towns
2 See also
3 References
Cities and towns[edit]
Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles
Balboa Park in San Diego
Skyline of San Jose
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
Skyline of Fresno
California State Capitol in Sacramento
Aerial view of the Port of Long Beach
Lake Merritt in Oakland
Truxton Tower in Bakersfield
Disneyland in Anaheim
dagger County seat
Name Type County Population (2010)[1][7][8] Land area[1] Incorporated[6]
sq mi km2
Adelanto City San Bernardino 31,765 56.01 145.1 December 22, 1970
Agoura Hills City Los Angeles 20,330 7.79 20.2 December 8, 1982
Alameda City Alameda 73,812 10.61 27.5 April 19, 1854
Albany City Alameda 18,539 1.79 4.6 September 22, 1908
Alhambra City Los Angeles 83,089 7.63 19.8 July 11, 1903
Aliso Viejo City Orange 47,823 7.47 19.3 July 1, 2001
AlturasCounty seat City Modoc 2,827 2.43 6.3 September 16, 1901
Amador City City Amador 185 0.31 0.80 June 2, 1915
American Canyon City Napa 19,454 4.84 12.5 January 1, 1992
Anaheim City Orange 336,265 49.84 129.1 March 18, 1876
Anderson City Shasta 9,932 6.37 16.5 January 16, 1956
Angels Camp City Calaveras 3,836 3.63 9.4 January 16, 1912
Antioch City Contra Costa 102,372 28.35 73.4 February 6, 1872
Apple Valley Town San Bernardino 69,135 73.19 189.6 November 28, 1988
Arcadia City Los Angeles 56,364 10.93 28.3 August 5, 1903
Arcata City Humboldt 17,231 9.10 23.6 February 2, 1858
Arroyo Grande City San Luis Obispo 17,252 5.84 15.1 July 10, 1911
Artesia City Los Angeles 16,522 1.62 4.2 May 29, 1959
Arvin City Kern 19,304 4.82 12.5 December 21, 1960
Atascadero City San Luis Obispo 28,310 25.64 66.4 July 2, 1979
Atherton Town San Mateo 6,914 5.02 13.0 September 12, 1923
Atwater City Merced 28,168 6.09 15.8 August 16, 1922
AuburnCounty seat City Placer 13,330 7.14 18.5 May 2, 1888
Avalon City Los Angeles 3,728 2.94 7.6 June 26, 1913
Avenal City Kings 15,505 19.42 50.3 September 11, 1979
Azusa City Los Angeles 46,361 9.66 25.0 December 29, 1898
BakersfieldCounty seat City Kern 347,483 142.16 368.2 January 11, 1898
Baldwin Park City Los Angeles 75,390 6.63 17.2 January 25, 1956
Banning City Riverside 29,603 23.10 59.8 February 6, 1913
Barstow City San Bernardino 22,639 41.38 107.2 September 30, 1947
Beaumont City Riverside 36,877 30.91 80.1 November 18, 1912
Bell City Los Angeles 35,477 2.50 6.5 November 7, 1927
Bell Gardens City Los Angeles 42,072 2.46 6.4 August 1, 1961
Bellflower City Los Angeles 76,616 6.12 15.9 September 3, 1957
Belmont City San Mateo 25,835 4.62 12.0 October 29, 1926
Belvedere City Marin 2,068 0.52 1.3 December 24, 1896
Benicia City Solano 26,997 12.93 33.5 March 27, 1850
Berkeley City Alameda 112,580 10.47 27.1 April 4, 1878
Beverly Hills City Los Angeles 34,109 5.71 14.8 January 28, 1914
Big Bear Lake City San Bernardino 5,019 6.35 16.4 November 28, 1980
Biggs City Butte 1,707 0.64 1.7 June 26, 1903
Bishop City Inyo 3,879 1.86 4.8 May 6, 1903
Blue Lake City Humboldt 1,253 0.59 1.5 April 23, 1910
Blythe City Riverside 20,817 26.19 67.8 July 21, 1916
Bradbury City Los Angeles 1,048 1.96 5.1 July 26, 1957
Brawley City Imperial 24,953 7.68 19.9 April 6, 1908
Brea City Orange 39,282 12.08 31.3 February 23, 1917
Brentwood City Contra Costa 51,481 14.79 38.3 January 21, 1948
Brisbane City San Mateo 4,282 3.10 8.0 November 27, 1961
Buellton City Santa Barbara 4,828 1.58 4.1 February 1, 1992
Buena Park City Orange 80,530 10.52 27.2 January 27, 1953
Burbank City Los Angeles 103,340 17.34 44.9 July 8, 1911
Burlingame City San Mateo 28,806 4.41 11.4 June 6, 1908
Calabasas City Los Angeles 23,058 12.90 33.4 April 5, 1991
Calexico City Imperial 38,572 8.39 21.7 April 16, 1908
California City City Kern 14,120 203.52 527.1 December 10, 1965
Calimesa City Riverside 7,879 14.85 38.5 December 1, 1990
Calipatria City Imperial 7,705 3.72 9.6 February 28, 1919
Calistoga City Napa 5,155 2.60 6.7 January 6, 1886
Camarillo City Ventura 65,201 19.53 50.6 March 28, 1964
Campbell City Santa Clara 39,349 5.80 15.0 March 28, 1952
Canyon Lake City Riverside 10,561 3.93 10.2 December 1, 1990
Capitola City Santa Cruz 9,918 1.59 4.1 January 11, 1949
Carlsbad City San Diego 105,328 37.72 97.7 July 16, 1952
Carmel-by-the-Sea City Monterey 3,722 1.08 2.8 October 31, 1916
Carpinteria City Santa Barbara 13,040 2.59 6.7 September 28, 1965
Carson City Los Angeles 91,714 18.72 48.5 February 20, 1968
Cathedral City City Riverside 51,200 21.50 55.7 November 16, 1981
Ceres City Stanislaus 45,417 8.01 20.7 February 25, 1918
Cerritos City Los Angeles 49,041 8.73 22.6 April 24, 1956
Chico City Butte 86,187 32.92 85.3 January 8, 1872
Chino City San Bernardino 77,983 29.64 76.8 February 28, 1910
Chino Hills City San Bernardino 74,799 44.68 115.7 December 1, 1991
Chowchilla City Madera 18,720 7.66 19.8 February 7, 1923
Chula Vista City San Diego 243,916 49.63 128.5 November 28, 1911
Citrus Heights City Sacramento 83,301 14.23 36.9 January 1, 1997
Claremont City Los Angeles 34,926 13.35 34.6 October 3, 1907
Clayton City Contra Costa 10,897 3.84 9.9 March 18, 1964
Clearlake City Lake 15,250 10.13 26.2 November 14, 1980
Cloverdale City Sonoma 8,618 2.65 6.9 February 28, 1872
Clovis City Fresno 95,631 23.28 60.3 February 27, 1912
Coachella City Riverside 40,704 28.95 75.0 December 13, 1946
Coalinga City Fresno 13,380 6.12 15.9 April 3, 1906
Colfax City Placer 1,963 1.41 3.7 February 23, 1910
Colma Town San Mateo 1,792 1.91 4.9 August 5, 1924
Colton City San Bernardino 52,154 15.32 39.7 July 11, 1887
ColusaCounty seat City Colusa 5,971 1.83 4.7 June 16, 1868
Commerce City Los Angeles 12,823 6.54 16.9 January 28, 1960
Compton City Los Angeles 96,455 10.01 25.9 May 11, 1888
Concord City Contra Costa 122,067 30.55 79.1 February 9, 1905
Corcoran City Kings 24,813 7.47 19.3 August 11, 1914
Corning City Tehama 7,663 3.55 9.2 August 6, 1907
Corona City Riverside 152,374 38.83 100.6 July 13, 1896
Coronado City San Diego 24,697 7.93 20.5 December 11, 1890
Corte Madera Town Marin 9,253 3.16 8.2 June 10, 1916
Costa Mesa City Orange 109,960 15.65 40.5 June 29, 1953
Cotati City Sonoma 7,265 1.88 4.9 July 16, 1963
Covina City Los Angeles 47,796 7.03 18.2 August 14, 1901
Crescent CityCounty seat City Del Norte 7,643 1.96 5.1 April 13, 1854
Cudahy City Los Angeles 23,805 1.18 3.1 November 10, 1960
Culver City City Los Angeles 38,883 5.11 13.2 September 7, 1917
Cupertino City Santa Clara 58,302 11.26 29.2 October 10, 1955
Cypress City Orange 47,802 6.58 17.0 July 24, 1956
Daly City City San Mateo 101,123 7.66 19.8 March 22, 1911
Dana Point City Orange 33,351 6.50 16.8 January 1, 1989
Danville Town Contra Costa 42,039 18.03 46.7 July 1, 1982
Davis City Yolo 65,622 9.89 25.6 March 28, 1917
Del Mar City San Diego 4,161 1.71 4.4 July 15, 1959
Del Rey Oaks City Monterey 1,624 0.48 1.2 September 3, 1953
Delano City Kern 53,041 14.30 37.0 April 13, 1915
Desert Hot Springs City Riverside 25,938 23.62 61.2 September 25, 1963
Diamond Bar City Los Angeles 55,544 14.88 38.5 April 18, 1989
Dinuba City Tulare 21,453 6.47 16.8 January 6, 1906
Dixon City Solano 18,351 7.00 18.1 March 30, 1878
Dorris City Siskiyou 939 0.70 1.8 December 23, 1908
Dos Palos City Merced 4,950 1.35 3.5 May 24, 1935
Downey City Los Angeles 111,772 12.41 32.1 December 17, 1956
Duarte City Los Angeles 21,321 6.69 17.3 August 22, 1957
Dublin City Alameda 46,036 14.91 38.6 February 1, 1982
Dunsmuir City Siskiyou 1,650 1.70 4.4 August 7, 1909
East Palo Alto City San Mateo 28,155 2.51 6.5 July 1, 1983
Eastvale City Riverside 53,670[9] 13.1 34[9] October 1, 2010
El Cajon City San Diego 99,478 14.43 37.4 November 12, 1912
El CentroCounty seat City Imperial 42,598 11.08 28.7 April 16, 1908
El Cerrito City Contra Costa 23,549 3.69 9.6 August 23, 1917
El Monte City Los Angeles 113,475 9.56 24.8 November 18, 1912
El Segundo City Los Angeles 16,654 5.46 14.1 January 18, 1917
Elk Grove City Sacramento 153,015 42.19 109.3 July 1, 2000
Emeryville City Alameda 10,080 1.25 3.2 December 8, 1896
Encinitas City San Diego 59,518 18.81 48.7 October 1, 1986
Escalon City San Joaquin 7,132 2.30 6.0 March 12, 1957
Escondido City San Diego 143,911 36.81 95.3 October 8, 1888
Etna City Siskiyou 737 0.76 2.0 March 13, 1878
EurekaCounty seat City Humboldt 27,191 9.38 24.3 April 18, 1856
Exeter City Tulare 10,334 2.46 6.4 March 2, 1911
Fairfax Town Marin 7,441 2.20 5.7 March 2, 1931
FairfieldCounty seat City Solano 105,321 37.39 96.8 December 12, 1903
Farmersville City Tulare 10,588 2.26 5.9 October 5, 1960
Ferndale City Humboldt 1,371 1.03 2.7 August 28, 1893
Fillmore City Ventura 15,002 3.36 8.7 July 10, 1914
Firebaugh City Fresno 7,549 3.46 9.0 September 17, 1914
Folsom City Sacramento 72,203 21.95 56.9 April 20, 1946
Fontana City San Bernardino 196,069 42.43 109.9 June 25, 1952
Fort Bragg City Mendocino 7,273 2.75 7.1 August 5, 1889
Fort Jones City Siskiyou 839 0.60 1.6 March 16, 1872
Fortuna City Humboldt 11,926 4.85 12.6 January 20, 1906
Foster City City San Mateo 30,567 3.76 9.7 April 27, 1971
Fountain Valley City Orange 55,313 9.02 23.4 June 13, 1957
Fowler City Fresno 5,570 2.53 6.6 June 15, 1908
Fremont City Alameda 214,089 77.46 200.6 January 23, 1956
FresnoCounty seat City Fresno 494,665 111.96 290.0 October 12, 1885
Fullerton City Orange 135,161 22.35 57.9 February 15, 1904
Galt City Sacramento 23,647 5.93 15.4 August 16, 1946
Garden Grove City Orange 170,883 17.94 46.5 June 18, 1956
Gardena City Los Angeles 58,829 5.83 15.1 September 11, 1930
Gilroy City Santa Clara 48,821 16.15 41.8 March 12, 1870
Glendale City Los Angeles 191,719 30.45 78.9 February 15, 1906
Glendora City Los Angeles 50,073 19.39 50.2 November 13, 1911
Goleta City Santa Barbara 29,888 7.90 20.5 February 1, 2002
Gonzales City Monterey 8,187 1.92 5.0 January 14, 1947
Grand Terrace City San Bernardino 12,040 3.50 9.1 November 30, 1978
Grass Valley City Nevada 12,860 4.74 12.3 March 13, 1893
Greenfield City Monterey 16,330 2.14 5.5 January 7, 1947
Gridley City Butte 6,584 2.07 5.4 November 23, 1905
Grover Beach City San Luis Obispo 13,156 2.31 6.0 December 21, 1959
Guadalupe City Santa Barbara 7,080 1.31 3.4 August 3, 1946
Gustine City Merced 5,520 1.55 4.0 November 11, 1915
Half Moon Bay City San Mateo 11,324 6.42 16.6 July 15, 1959
HanfordCounty seat City Kings 53,967 16.59 43.0 August 12, 1891
Hawaiian Gardens City Los Angeles 14,254 0.95 2.5 April 9, 1964
Hawthorne City Los Angeles 84,293 6.08 15.7 July 12, 1922
Hayward City Alameda 144,186 45.32 117.4 March 11, 1876
Healdsburg City Sonoma 11,254 4.46 11.6 February 20, 1867
Hemet City Riverside 78,657 27.85 72.1 January 20, 1910
Hercules City Contra Costa 24,060 6.21 16.1 December 15, 1900
Hermosa Beach City Los Angeles 19,506 1.43 3.7 January 14, 1907
Hesperia City San Bernardino 90,173 73.10 189.3 July 1, 1988
Hidden Hills City Los Angeles 1,856 1.69 4.4 January 19, 1961
Highland City San Bernardino 53,104 18.76 48.6 November 24, 1987
Hillsborough Town San Mateo 10,825 6.19 16.0 May 5, 1910
HollisterCounty seat City San Benito 34,928 7.29 18.9 March 26, 1872
Holtville City Imperial 5,939 1.15 3.0 July 1, 1908
Hughson City Stanislaus 6,640 1.82 4.7 December 9, 1972
Huntington Beach City Orange 189,992 26.75 69.3 February 17, 1909
Huntington Park City Los Angeles 58,114 3.01 7.8 September 1, 1906
Huron City Fresno 6,754 1.59 4.1 May 3, 1951
Imperial City Imperial 14,758 5.86 15.2 July 12, 1904
Imperial Beach City San Diego 26,324 4.16 10.8 July 18, 1956
Indian Wells City Riverside 4,958 14.32 37.1 July 14, 1967
Indio City Riverside 76,036 29.18 75.6 May 16, 1930
Industry City Los Angeles 219 11.78 30.5 June 18, 1957
Inglewood City Los Angeles 109,673 9.07 23.5 February 7, 1908
Ione City Amador 7,918 4.76 12.3 March 23, 1953
Irvine City Orange 212,375 66.11 171.2 December 28, 1971
Irwindale City Los Angeles 1,422 8.83 22.9 August 6, 1957
Isleton City Sacramento 804 0.44 1.1 May 14, 1923
JacksonCounty seat City Amador 4,651 3.73 9.7 December 5, 1905
Jurupa Valley City Riverside 95,004[10] 43.7 113[10] July 1, 2011
Kerman City Fresno 13,544 3.23 8.4 July 2, 1946
King City City Monterey 12,874 3.84 9.9 February 9, 1911
Kingsburg City Fresno 11,382 2.83 7.3 May 29, 1908
La Cañada Flintridge City Los Angeles 20,246 8.63 22.4 November 30, 1976
La Habra City Orange 60,239 7.37 19.1 January 20, 1925
La Habra Heights City Los Angeles 5,325 6.16 16.0 December 4, 1978
La Mesa City San Diego 57,065 9.08 23.5 February 16, 1912
La Mirada City Los Angeles 48,527 7.84 20.3 March 23, 1960
La Palma City Orange 15,568 1.81 4.7 October 26, 1955
La Puente City Los Angeles 39,816 3.48 9.0 August 1, 1956
La Quinta City Riverside 37,467 35.12 91.0 May 1, 1982
La Verne City Los Angeles 31,063 8.43 21.8 August 20, 1906
Lafayette City Contra Costa 23,893 15.22 39.4 July 29, 1968
Laguna Beach City Orange 22,723 8.85 22.9 June 29, 1927
Laguna Hills City Orange 30,344 6.67 17.3 December 20, 1991
Laguna Niguel City Orange 62,979 14.83 38.4 December 1, 1989
Laguna Woods City Orange 16,192 3.12 8.1 March 24, 1999
Lake Elsinore City Riverside 51,821 36.21 93.8 April 9, 1888
Lake Forest City Orange 77,264 17.82 46.2 December 20, 1991
LakeportCounty seat City Lake 4,753 3.06 7.9 April 30, 1888
Lakewood City Los Angeles 80,048 9.41 24.4 April 16, 1954
Lancaster City Los Angeles 156,633 94.28 244.2 November 22, 1977
Larkspur City Marin 11,926 3.03 7.8 March 1, 1908
Lathrop City San Joaquin 18,023 21.93 56.8 July 1, 1989
Lawndale City Los Angeles 32,769 1.97 5.1 December 28, 1959
Lemon Grove City San Diego 25,320 3.88 10.0 July 1, 1977
Lemoore City Kings 24,531 8.52 22.1 July 4, 1900
Lincoln City Placer 42,819 20.11 52.1 August 7, 1890
Lindsay City Tulare 11,768 2.61 6.8 February 28, 1910
Live Oak City Sutter 8,392 1.87 4.8 January 22, 1947
Livermore City Alameda 80,968 25.17 65.2 April 1, 1876
Livingston City Merced 13,058 3.72 9.6 September 11, 1922
Lodi City San Joaquin 62,134 13.61 35.2 December 6, 1906
Loma Linda City San Bernardino 23,261 7.52 19.5 September 29, 1970
Lomita City Los Angeles 20,256 1.91 4.9 June 30, 1964
Lompoc City Santa Barbara 42,434 11.60 30.0 August 13, 1888
Long Beach City Los Angeles 462,257 50.29 130.3 December 13, 1897
Loomis Town Placer 6,430 7.27 18.8 December 17, 1984
Los Alamitos City Orange 11,449 4.05 10.5 March 1, 1960
Los Altos City Santa Clara 28,976 6.49 16.8 December 1, 1952
Los Altos Hills Town Santa Clara 7,922 8.80 22.8 January 27, 1956
Los AngelesCounty seat City Los Angeles 3,792,621 468.67 1,213.8 April 4, 1850
Los Banos City Merced 35,972 9.99 25.9 May 8, 1907
Los Gatos Town Santa Clara 29,413 11.08 28.7 August 10, 1887
Loyalton City Sierra 769 0.36 0.93 July 21, 1901
Lynwood City Los Angeles 69,772 4.84 12.5 July 21, 1921
MaderaCounty seat City Madera 61,416 15.79 40.9 March 27, 1907
Malibu City Los Angeles 12,645 19.78 51.2 March 28, 1991
Mammoth Lakes Town Mono 8,234 24.87 64.4 August 20, 1984
Manhattan Beach City Los Angeles 35,135 3.94 10.2 December 12, 1912
Manteca City San Joaquin 67,096 17.73 45.9 June 5, 1918
Maricopa City Kern 1,154 1.50 3.9 July 25, 1911
Marina City Monterey 19,718 8.88 23.0 November 13, 1975
MartinezCounty seat City Contra Costa 35,824 12.13 31.4 April 1, 1876
MarysvilleCounty seat City Yuba 12,072 3.46 9.0 February 5, 1851
Maywood City Los Angeles 27,395 1.18 3.1 September 2, 1924
McFarland City Kern 12,707 2.67 6.9 July 18, 1957
Mendota City Fresno 11,014 3.28 8.5 June 17, 1942
Menifee City Riverside 77,519 46.47 120.4 October 1, 2008
Menlo Park City San Mateo 32,026 9.79 25.4 November 23, 1927
MercedCounty seat City Merced 78,958 23.32 60.4 April 1, 1889
Mill Valley City Marin 13,903 4.76 12.3 September 1, 1900
Millbrae City San Mateo 21,532 3.25 8.4 January 14, 1948
Milpitas City Santa Clara 66,790 13.59 35.2 January 26, 1954
Mission Viejo City Orange 93,305 17.74 45.9 March 31, 1988
ModestoCounty seat City Stanislaus 201,165 36.87 95.5 August 6, 1884
Monrovia City Los Angeles 36,590 13.60 35.2 December 15, 1887
Montague City Siskiyou 1,443 1.78 4.6 January 28, 1909
Montclair City San Bernardino 36,664 5.52 14.3 April 25, 1956
Monte Sereno City Santa Clara 3,341 1.62 4.2 May 14, 1957
Montebello City Los Angeles 62,500 8.33 21.6 October 16, 1920
Monterey City Monterey 27,810 8.47 21.9 June 14, 1890
Monterey Park City Los Angeles 60,269 7.67 19.9 May 29, 1916
Moorpark City Ventura 34,421 12.58 32.6 July 1, 1983
Moraga Town Contra Costa 16,016 9.43 24.4 November 13, 1974
Moreno Valley City Riverside 193,365 51.27 132.8 December 3, 1984
Morgan Hill City Santa Clara 37,882 12.88 33.4 November 10, 1906
Morro Bay City San Luis Obispo 10,234 5.30 13.7 July 17, 1964
Mount Shasta City Siskiyou 3,394 3.77 9.8 May 31, 1905
Mountain View City Santa Clara 74,066 12.00 31.1 November 7, 1902
Murrieta City Riverside 103,466 33.58 87.0 July 1, 1991
NapaCounty seat City Napa 76,915 17.84 46.2 March 23, 1872
National City City San Diego 58,582 7.28 18.9 September 17, 1887
Needles City San Bernardino 4,844 30.81 79.8 October 30, 1913
Nevada CityCounty seat City Nevada 3,068 2.19 5.7 April 19, 1856
Newark City Alameda 42,573 13.87 35.9 September 22, 1955
Newman City Stanislaus 10,224 2.10 5.4 June 10, 1908
Newport Beach City Orange 85,186 23.80 61.6 September 1, 1906
Norco City Riverside 27,063 13.96 36.2 December 28, 1964
Norwalk City Los Angeles 105,549 9.71 25.1 August 26, 1957
Novato City Marin 51,904 27.44 71.1 January 20, 1960
Oakdale City Stanislaus 20,675 6.04 15.6 November 24, 1906
OaklandCounty seat City Alameda 390,724 55.79 144.5 May 4, 1852
Oakley City Contra Costa 35,432 15.85 41.1 July 1, 1999
Oceanside City San Diego 167,086 41.23 106.8 July 3, 1888
Ojai Town Ventura 7,461 4.39 11.4 August 5, 1921
Ontario City San Bernardino 163,924 49.94 129.3 December 10, 1891
Orange City Orange 134,616 24.80 64.2 April 6, 1888
Orange Cove City Fresno 9,078 1.91 4.9 January 20, 1948
Orinda City Contra Costa 17,643 12.68 32.8 July 1, 1985
Orland City Glenn 7,291 2.97 7.7 November 11, 1909
OrovilleCounty seat City Butte 15,546 12.99 33.6 January 3, 1906
Oxnard City Ventura 197,899 26.89 69.6 June 30, 1903
Pacific Grove City Monterey 15,041 2.86 7.4 July 5, 1889
Pacifica City San Mateo 37,234 12.66 32.8 November 22, 1957
Palm Desert City Riverside 48,445 26.81 69.4 November 26, 1973
Palm Springs City Riverside 44,552 94.12 243.8 April 20, 1938
Palmdale City Los Angeles 152,750 105.96 274.4 August 24, 1962
Palo Alto City Santa Clara 64,403 23.88 61.8 April 23, 1894
Palos Verdes Estates City Los Angeles 13,438 4.77 12.4 December 20, 1939
Paradise Town Butte 26,218 18.31 47.4 November 27, 1979
Paramount City Los Angeles 54,098 4.73 12.3 January 30, 1957
Parlier City Fresno 14,494 2.19 5.7 November 15, 1921
Pasadena City Los Angeles 137,122 22.97 59.5 June 19, 1886
Paso Robles City San Luis Obispo 29,793 19.12 49.5 March 11, 1889
Patterson City Stanislaus 20,413 5.95 15.4 December 22, 1919
Perris City Riverside 68,386 31.39 81.3 May 26, 1911
Petaluma City Sonoma 57,941 14.38 37.2 April 12, 1858
Pico Rivera City Los Angeles 62,942 8.30 21.5 January 29, 1958
Piedmont City Alameda 10,667 1.68 4.4 January 31, 1907
Pinole City Contra Costa 18,390 5.32 13.8 June 25, 1903
Pismo Beach City San Luis Obispo 7,655 3.60 9.3 April 25, 1946
Pittsburg City Contra Costa 63,264 17.22 44.6 June 25, 1903
Placentia City Orange 50,533 6.57 17.0 December 2, 1926
PlacervilleCounty seat City El Dorado 10,389 5.81 15.0 May 13, 1854
Pleasant Hill City Contra Costa 33,152 7.07 18.3 November 14, 1961
Pleasanton City Alameda 70,285 24.11 62.4 June 18, 1894
Plymouth City Amador 1,005 0.93 2.4 February 8, 1917
Point Arena City Mendocino 449 1.35 3.5 July 11, 1908
Pomona City Los Angeles 149,058 22.95 59.4 January 6, 1888
Port Hueneme City Ventura 21,723 4.45 11.5 March 24, 1948
Porterville City Tulare 54,165 17.61 45.6 May 7, 1902
Portola City Plumas 2,104 5.41 14.0 May 16, 1946
Portola Valley Town San Mateo 4,353 9.09 23.5 July 14, 1964
Poway City San Diego 47,811 39.08 101.2 December 1, 1980
Rancho Cordova City Sacramento 64,776 33.51 86.8 July 1, 2003
Rancho Cucamonga City San Bernardino 165,269 39.85 103.2 November 30, 1977
Rancho Mirage City Riverside 17,218 24.45 63.3 August 3, 1973
Rancho Palos Verdes City Los Angeles 41,643 13.46 34.9 September 7, 1973
Rancho Santa Margarita City Orange 47,853 12.96 33.6 January 1, 2000
Red BluffCounty seat City Tehama 14,076 7.56 19.6 March 31, 1876
ReddingCounty seat City Shasta 89,861 59.65 154.5 October 4, 1887
Redlands City San Bernardino 68,747 36.13 93.6 December 3, 1888
Redondo Beach City Los Angeles 66,747 6.20 16.1 April 29, 1892
Redwood CityCounty seat City San Mateo 76,815 19.42 50.3 May 11, 1867
Reedley City Fresno 24,194 5.08 13.2 February 18, 1913
Rialto City San Bernardino 99,171 22.35 57.9 November 17, 1911
Richmond City Contra Costa 103,701 30.07 77.9 August 7, 1905
Ridgecrest City Kern 27,616 20.77 53.8 November 29, 1963
Rio Dell City Humboldt 3,368 2.28 5.9 February 23, 1965
Rio Vista City Solano 7,360 6.69 17.3 January 6, 1894
Ripon City San Joaquin 14,297 5.30 13.7 November 27, 1945
Riverbank City Stanislaus 22,678 4.09 10.6 August 23, 1922
RiversideCounty seat City Riverside 303,871 81.14 210.2 October 11, 1883
Rocklin City Placer 56,974 19.54 50.6 February 24, 1893
Rohnert Park City Sonoma 40,971 7.00 18.1 August 28, 1962
Rolling Hills City Los Angeles 1,860 2.99 7.7 January 24, 1957
Rolling Hills Estates City Los Angeles 8,067 3.57 9.2 September 18, 1957
Rosemead City Los Angeles 53,764 5.16 13.4 August 4, 1959
Roseville City Placer 118,788 36.22 93.8 April 10, 1909
Ross Town Marin 2,415 1.56 4.0 August 21, 1908
SacramentoCounty seat City Sacramento 466,488 97.92 253.6 February 27, 1850
St. Helena City Napa 5,814 4.99 12.9 March 24, 1876
SalinasCounty seat City Monterey 150,441 23.18 60.0 March 4, 1874
San Anselmo Town Marin 12,336 2.68 6.9 April 9, 1907
San BernardinoCounty seat City San Bernardino 209,924 59.20 153.3 August 10, 1869
San Bruno City San Mateo 41,114 5.48 14.2 December 23, 1914
San Carlos City San Mateo 28,406 5.54 14.3 July 8, 1925
San Clemente City Orange 63,522 18.71 48.5 February 28, 1928
San DiegoCounty seat City San Diego 1,301,617 325.19 842.2 March 27, 1850
San Dimas City Los Angeles 33,371 15.04 39.0 August 4, 1960
San Fernando City Los Angeles 23,645 2.37 6.1 August 31, 1911
San FranciscoCounty seat City and county San Francisco 805,235 46.87 121.4 April 15, 1850[11]
San Gabriel City Los Angeles 39,718 4.14 10.7 April 24, 1913
San Jacinto City Riverside 44,199 25.72 66.6 April 20, 1888
San Joaquin City Fresno 4,001 1.15 3.0 February 14, 1920
San JoseCounty seat City Santa Clara 945,942 176.53 457.2 March 27, 1850
San Juan Bautista City San Benito 1,862 0.71 1.8 May 4, 1896
San Juan Capistrano City Orange 34,593 14.12 36.6 April 19, 1961
San Leandro City Alameda 84,950 13.34 34.6 March 21, 1872
San Luis ObispoCounty seat City San Luis Obispo 45,119 12.78 33.1 February 16, 1856
San Marcos City San Diego 83,781 24.37 63.1 January 28, 1963
San Marino City Los Angeles 13,147 3.77 9.8 April 25, 1913
San Mateo City San Mateo 97,207 12.13 31.4 September 4, 1894
San Pablo City Contra Costa 29,139 2.63 6.8 April 27, 1948
San RafaelCounty seat City Marin 57,713 16.47 42.7 February 18, 1874
San Ramon City Contra Costa 72,148 18.06 46.8 July 1, 1983
Sand City City Monterey 334 0.56 1.5 May 31, 1960
Sanger City Fresno 24,270 5.52 14.3 May 9, 1911
Santa AnaCounty seat City Orange 324,528 27.27 70.6 June 1, 1886
Santa BarbaraCounty seat City Santa Barbara 88,410 19.47 50.4 April 9, 1850
Santa Clara City Santa Clara 116,468 18.41 47.7 July 5, 1852
Santa Clarita City Los Angeles 176,320 52.72 136.5 December 15, 1987
Santa CruzCounty seat City Santa Cruz 59,946 12.74 33.0 March 31, 1866
Santa Fe Springs City Los Angeles 16,223 8.87 23.0 May 15, 1957
Santa Maria City Santa Barbara 99,553 22.76 58.9 September 12, 1905
Santa Monica City Los Angeles 89,736 8.41 21.8 November 30, 1886
Santa Paula City Ventura 29,321 4.59 11.9 April 22, 1902
Santa RosaCounty seat City Sonoma 167,815 41.29 106.9 March 26, 1868
Santee City San Diego 53,413 16.24 42.1 December 1, 1980
Saratoga City Santa Clara 29,926 12.38 32.1 October 22, 1956
Sausalito City Marin 7,061 1.77 4.6 September 4, 1893
Scotts Valley City Santa Cruz 11,580 4.59 11.9 August 2, 1966
Seal Beach City Orange 24,168 11.29 29.2 October 27, 1915
Seaside City Monterey 33,025 9.24 23.9 October 13, 1954
Sebastopol City Sonoma 7,379 1.85 4.8 June 13, 1902
Selma City Fresno 23,219 5.14 13.3 March 15, 1893
Shafter City Kern 16,988 27.94 72.4 January 20, 1938
Shasta Lake City Shasta 10,164 10.92 28.3 July 2, 1993
Sierra Madre City Los Angeles 10,917 2.95 7.6 February 2, 1907
Signal Hill City Los Angeles 11,016 2.19 5.7 April 22, 1924
Simi Valley City Ventura 124,237 41.48 107.4 October 10, 1969
Solana Beach City San Diego 12,867 3.52 9.1 July 1, 1986
Soledad City Monterey 25,738 4.41 11.4 March 9, 1921
Solvang City Santa Barbara 5,245 2.43 6.3 May 1, 1985
Sonoma City Sonoma 10,648 2.74 7.1 September 3, 1883
SonoraCounty seat City Tuolumne 4,903 3.06 7.9 May 1, 1851
South El Monte City Los Angeles 20,116 2.84 7.4 July 30, 1958
South Gate City Los Angeles 94,396 7.24 18.8 January 20, 1923
South Lake Tahoe City El Dorado 21,403 10.16 26.3 November 30, 1965
South Pasadena City Los Angeles 25,619 3.41 8.8 March 2, 1888
South San Francisco City San Mateo 63,632 9.14 23.7 September 19, 1908
Stanton City Orange 38,186 3.15 8.2 June 4, 1956
StocktonCounty seat City San Joaquin 291,707 61.67 159.7 July 23, 1850
Suisun City City Solano 28,111 4.11 10.6 October 9, 1868
Sunnyvale City Santa Clara 140,081 21.99 57.0 December 24, 1912
SusanvilleCounty seat City Lassen 17,947 7.93 20.5 August 24, 1900
Sutter Creek City Amador 2,501 2.56 6.6 February 11, 1913
Taft City Kern 9,327 15.11 39.1 November 7, 1910
Tehachapi City Kern 14,414 9.87 25.6 August 13, 1909
Tehama City Tehama 418 0.79 2.0 July 5, 1906
Temecula City Riverside 100,097 30.15 78.1 December 1, 1989
Temple City City Los Angeles 35,558 4.01 10.4 May 25, 1960
Thousand Oaks City Ventura 126,683 55.03 142.5 October 7, 1964
Tiburon Town Marin 8,962 4.43 11.5 June 23, 1964
Torrance City Los Angeles 145,538 20.48 53.0 May 21, 1921
Tracy City San Joaquin 82,922 22.00 57.0 July 22, 1910
Trinidad City Humboldt 367 0.48 1.2 November 7, 1870
Truckee Town Nevada 16,180 32.32 83.7 March 23, 1993
Tulare City Tulare 59,278 20.93 54.2 April 5, 1888
Tulelake City Siskiyou 1,010 0.41 1.1 March 1, 1937
Turlock City Stanislaus 68,549 16.93 43.8 February 15, 1908
Tustin City Orange 75,540 11.08 28.7 September 21, 1927
Twentynine Palms City San Bernardino 25,048 59.14 153.2 November 23, 1987
UkiahCounty seat City Mendocino 16,075 4.67 12.1 March 8, 1876
Union City City Alameda 69,516 19.47 50.4 January 26, 1959
Upland City San Bernardino 73,732 15.62 40.5 May 15, 1906
Vacaville City Solano 92,428 28.37 73.5 August 9, 1892
Vallejo City Solano 115,942 30.67 79.4 March 30, 1868
VenturaCounty seat City Ventura 106,433 21.65 56.1 April 2, 1866
Vernon City Los Angeles 112 4.97 12.9 September 22, 1905
Victorville City San Bernardino 115,903 73.18 189.5 September 21, 1962
Villa Park City Orange 5,812 2.08 5.4 January 11, 1962
VisaliaCounty seat City Tulare 124,442 36.25 93.9 February 27, 1874
Vista City San Diego 93,834 18.68 48.4 January 28, 1963
Walnut City Los Angeles 29,172 8.99 23.3 January 19, 1959
Walnut Creek City Contra Costa 64,173 19.76 51.2 October 21, 1914 This is a list of the 100 largest cities in Southern California by population. Official definitions of cities are defined according to the concept of city proper. The list ranks the regions urban municipal units (or well-defined statistical groupings of such units) according to population. Note that the populations listed are for the city proper and not for the urban area nor the metropolitan area. Population figures for Southern California cities are based on the reports of the 2010 United States Census.[1]
Largest cities (city proper) in Southern California
1 – Los Angeles
2 - San Diego
3 - Long Beach
4 - Bakersfield
5 - Anaheim
6 - Santa Ana
7 - Riverside
8 - Chula Vista
9 - Irvine
10 - San Bernardino
11 - Oxnard
12 - Fontana
13 - Moreno Valley
14 - Huntington Beach
15 - Glendale
16 - Santa Clarita
17 - Garden Grove
18 - Oceanside
19 - Rancho Cucamonga
20 - Ontario
21 - Corona
22 - Lancaster
23 - Palmdale
24 - Pomona
25 - Escondido
26 - Torrance
27 - Pasadena
28 - Orange
29 - Fullerton
30 - Thousand Oaks
31 - Simi Valley
32 - Victorville
33 - El Monte
34 - Downey
35 - Costa Mesa
36 - Carlsbad
37 - Inglewood
38 - Ventura
39 - Temecula
40 - West Covina
41 - Murrieta
42 - Norwalk
43 - Burbank
44 - Santa Maria
45 - El Cajon
46 - Rialto, California
47 - Compton
48 - South Gate
49 - Vista
50 - Mission Viejo
51 - Carson
52 - Hesperia
53 - Santa Monica
54 - Westminster
55 - Santa Barbara
Rank City County Population
1 Los Angeles Los Angeles 3,928,364
2 San Diego San Diego 1,381,069
3 Long Beach Los Angeles 473,577
4 Bakersfield Kern 368,759
5 Anaheim Orange 346,997
6 Santa Ana Orange 334,909
7 Riverside Riverside 319,504
8 Chula Vista San Diego 260,988
9 Irvine Orange 248,531
10 San Bernardino San Bernardino 215,213
11 Oxnard Ventura 205,437
12 Fontana San Bernardino 204,950
13 Moreno Valley Riverside 202,976
14 Huntington Beach Orange 200,809
15 Glendale Los Angeles 200,167
16 Santa Clarita Los Angeles 181,557
17 Garden Grove Orange 175,078
18 Oceanside San Diego 174,558
19 Rancho Cucamonga San Bernardino 174,305
20 Ontario San Bernardino 169,089
21 Corona Riverside 161,486
22 Lancaster Los Angeles 161,043
23 Palmdale Los Angeles 158,279
24 Pomona Los Angeles 153,350
25 Escondido San Diego 150,243
26 Torrance Los Angeles 148,495
27 Pasadena Los Angeles 140,881
28 Orange Orange 139,812
29 Fullerton Orange 139,677
30 Thousand Oaks Ventura 129,342
31 Simi Valley Ventura 126,871
32 Victorville San Bernardino 121,901
33 El Monte Los Angeles 116,631
34 Downey Los Angeles 114,172
35 Costa Mesa Orange 112,784
36 Carlsbad San Diego 112,299
37 Inglewood Los Angeles 111,905
38 Ventura Ventura 109,484
39 Temecula Riverside 109,428
40 West Covina Los Angeles 108,455
41 Murrieta Riverside 108,466
42 Norwalk Los Angeles 107,096
43 Burbank Los Angeles 105,368
44 Santa Maria Santa Barbara 103,410
45 El Cajon San Diego 103,091
46 Rialto San Bernardino 102,741
47 Jurupa Valley Riverside 98,842
48 Compton Los Angeles 98,597
49 Vista San Diego 98,079
50 Mission Viejo Orange 97,209
51 South Gate Los Angeles 96,312
52 Carson Los Angeles 93,271
53 Santa Monica Los Angeles 92,987
54 San Marcos San Diego 92,989
55 Hesperia San Bernardino 92,749
56 Westminster Orange 92,068
57 Santa Barbara Santa Barbara 91,196
58 Hawthorne Los Angeles 87,583
59 Whittier Los Angeles 87,318
60 Newport Beach Orange 87,266
61 Indio Riverside 85,633
62 Alhambra Los Angeles 85,569
63 Menifee Riverside 85,182
64 Chino San Bernardino 84,723
65 Buena Park Orange 83,105
66 Hemet Riverside 83,032
67 Lakewood Los Angeles 81,653
68 Tustin Orange 80,621
69 Lake Forest Orange 80,148
70 Bellflower Los Angeles 78,236
71 Baldwin Park Los Angeles 77,119
72 Chino Hills San Bernardino 77,005
73 Upland San Bernardino 76,043
74 Perris Riverside 73,756
75 Lynwood Los Angeles 71,839
76 Apple Valley San Bernardino 71,595
77 Redlands San Bernardino 70,622
78 Redondo Beach Los Angeles 68,149
79 Yorba Linda Orange 67,826
80 Camarillo Ventura 66,923
81 Laguna Niguel Orange 65,448
82 San Clemente Orange 65,326
83 Pico Rivera Los Angeles 64,235
84 Montebello Los Angeles 63,929
85 Encinitas San Diego 62,254
86 La Habra Orange 62,066
87 Monterey Park Los Angeles 61,458
88 Montebello Los Angeles 60,395
89 National City San Diego 60,343
90 Lake Elsinore Riverside 60,029
91 Huntington Park Los Angeles 59,362
92 La Mesa San Diego 59,177
93 Arcadia Los Angeles 58,232
94 Santee San Diego 57,052
95 Eastvale Riverside 57,016
96 Fountain Valley Orange 57,010
97 Diamond Bar Los Angeles 56,784
98 Paramount Los Angeles 55,406
99 Rosemead Los Angeles 54,947
100 Highland San Bernardino 54,651
Wasco City Kern 25,545 9.43 24.4 December 22, 1945
Waterford City Stanislaus 8,456 2.33 6.0 November 7, 1969
Watsonville City Santa Cruz 51,199 6.69 17.3 March 30, 1868
Weed City Siskiyou 2,967 4.79 12.4 January 25, 1961
West Covina City Los Angeles 106,098 16.04 41.5 February 17, 1923
West Hollywood City Los Angeles 34,399 1.89 4.9 November 29, 1984
West Sacramento City Yolo 48,744 21.43 55.5 January 1, 1987
Westlake Village City Los Angeles 8,270 5.19 13.4 December 11, 1981
Westminster City Orange 89,701 10.05 26.0 March 27, 1957
Westmorland City Imperial 2,225 0.59 1.5 June 30, 1934
Wheatland City Yuba 3,456 1.48 3.8 April 23, 1874
Whittier City Los Angeles 85,331 14.65 37.9 February 25, 1898
Wildomar City Riverside 32,176 23.69 61.4 July 1, 2008
Williams City Colusa 5,123 5.44 14.1 May 17, 1920
Willits City Mendocino 4,888 2.80 7.3 November 19, 1888
WillowsCounty seat City Glenn 6,166 2.85 7.4 January 16, 1886
Windsor Town Sonoma 26,801 7.27 18.8 July 1, 1992
Winters City Yolo 6,624 2.91 7.5 February 9, 1898
Woodlake City Tulare 7,279 2.25 5.8 September 23, 1941
WoodlandCounty seat City Yolo 55,468 15.30 39.6 February 22, 1871
Woodside Town San Mateo 5,287 11.73 30.4 November 16, 1956
Yorba Linda City Orange 64,234 19.48 50.5 November 2, 1967
Yountville Town Napa 2,933 1.53 4.0 February 4, 1965
YrekaCounty seat City Siskiyou 7,765 9.98 25.8 April 21, 1857
Yuba CityCounty seat City Sutter 64,925 14.58 37.8 January 23, 1908
Yucaipa City San Bernardino 51,367 27.89 72.2 November 27, 1989
Yucca Valley Town San Bernardino 20,700 40.02 103.7 November 27,
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