Temecula
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| Foundation : | 1859 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | California |
| County : | Riverside County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 30 ′ N , 117 ° 9 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
| Residents : | 100.097 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,281.8 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 78.133 km 2 (approx. 30 mi 2 ) of which 78.092 km 2 (approx. 30 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 358 m |
| Postcodes : | 92589-92593 |
| Area code : | +1 951 |
| FIPS : | 06-78120 |
| GNIS ID : | 1652799 |
| Website : | www.cityoftemecula.org |
| Mayor : | Michael S. Naggar |
Temecula [ təˈmɛkjʉlə ] is a city in Riverside County in the US state of California with about 100,000 inhabitants (as of 2010) and a size of 78.133 km². It is considered to be a wealthy commuter city .
Military facilities of the nearby bases Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton , Marine Corps Air Station Miramar , March Air Reserve Base and naval bases in San Diego are located in Temecula. The Temecula Valley AVA wine region is also in the immediate vicinity of the city .
The city owes its name to the word Temecunga , which means "place in the sun" in the language of the Luiseño Indians.
geography
Temecula is located in the southwest of Riverside County. In the northwest, the city borders on Murrieta , otherwise it is surrounded by an unincorporated area . In the south, not far from the urban area, is the border with San Diego County . 78.092 km² is land and 0.042 km² is water.
With 100,097 inhabitants (as of 2010 census ), it is the fifth largest city in Riverside County and the smallest major city in the United States. Murrieta and Temecula together form the southwestern end of the Inland Empire metropolitan area .
The main economic centers of Southern California, Los Angeles (150 km), San Diego (100 km) and Orange County (50 km) are not very far away, so Temecula is considered a satellite town . Temecula is connected to the road network via Interstate 15 and California State Route 79 .
climate
The climate in Temecula is desert-like and semi-arid , tempered by cool Pacific winds in the afternoon. The average maximum temperature in the hottest month of the year, August, is 37 ° C (record 46 ° C ), the average minimum temperature in the coldest month of December is 1 ° C (record −10 ° C in January). Most of the rain falls in the months from November to March, the wettest month is February. Usually moderate rain is caused by winter storms, in El Niño years the storms can be stronger. It is driest in June. The average annual rainfall is 359 mm. From May to June fog can come in the morning . During the hot and dry period from July to September, the humidity increases and isolated thunderstorms occur. These are mostly short-lived and there is no to very little rainfall. In late autumn, the Santa Ana winds come in from the northeast . Snowfall is very rare in Temecula.
On April 19, 2005, a district of Temecula was hit by an F1 tornado .
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history
Before 1800
Before the arrival of Spanish missionaries in California, today's Temecula was inhabited by Luiseño Indians. Their legends tell that life on earth began in the Temecula Valley.
In October 1797, the Franciscan Father Juan Norberto de Santiago and the Captain Pedro Lisalde were the first Spaniards to come to the area around Temecula. Juan Norberto de Santiago called the place in his records as an Indian village. During their trip, the team came to both the Temecula Valley and what is now Lake Elsinore .
Today over 1000 descendants of the Indians live in the Temecula Valley. However, the wine industry was introduced by Spanish settlers and taken over by Americans and European immigrants from Spain, Italy and France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
19th century
In 1798 Spanish missionaries built the mission station San Luis Rey de Francia and named the Indians in their region Sanluiseños or Luiseños for short . In the 1820s, the San Antonio de Pala mission station was founded.
In 1844, the area around Temecula was divided into Rancho Temecula owned by Felix Valdez and Rancho Pauba to the east by Vicente Moraga. In 1845, the converted Luiseño Indian Pablo Apis was given the Rancho Little Temecula by the governor of the then Upper California Pío Pico , which lay in the south of the Temecula Valley on fertile soil and included the village of Temecula. In 1846 Juan Moreno got a piece of land in the mountains to the west with Rancho Santa Rosa .
In the years that followed, both the Luiseño and Cahuilla Indian tribes took part in local battles in the Mexican-American War . In January 1847, members of the Luiseño tribe captured eleven Mexican soldiers in the so-called Pauma Massacre because they had stolen horses from the Indians. This was followed by a retaliatory strike by the Mexicans known as the Temecula Massacre . Together with the Cahuilla Indians, Mexican soldiers between 33 and 40 or according to other information killed up to 100 Luiseño Indians.
The conflicts with the Indians escalated when Americans settled in the area around Temecula after the war. Native claims to their land were denied, and after Louis Wolf had acquired the Rancho Little Temecula from the late Pablo Apis in 1872, he drove the Luiseño out of their village of Temecula in 1875. In 1882 the United States government founded the 16 km² Pechanga Indian Reservation , 13 km south of Temecula.
From 1857 stagecoaches drove regularly through the Temecula Valley. A little later, the Butterfield Overland Mail stopped at the Magee Store in Temecula on its way from St. Louis to San Francisco . On April 22, 1859 Temecula got the first post office in inland Southern California and after San Francisco the second post office in California. It was first located in the Magee Store, but has been relocated several times to this day. After the Civil War , the Butterfield Overland Mail was discontinued and its route was used by other companies until a railway line to Fort Yuma was created in 1877 .
In 1882, the California Southern Railroad , a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , completed the National City to Temecula railroad . A year later this route was extended to San Bernardino . In the late 1880s, the tracks were damaged several times by floods and the line was abandoned. The old Temecula train station was then used as a barn and later destroyed.
In the 1890s, stone quarries were set up to extract granite ; Furthermore, Temecula was an important shipping point for grain and cattle at the turn of the century.
20th century
In 1904 Walter L. Vail, who had come to the USA with his parents from Nova Scotia , emigrated to California. Together with various business partners, he bought land in Southern California, including 154 km² of grassland in the Temecula Valley, consisting of Rancho Temecula , Rancho Pauba and the northern area of Rancho Little Temecula . Vail died in a 1906 tram accident in Los Angeles , after which his son Mahlon Vail took over his family's estates. In 1914, the First National Bank of Temecula opened, sponsored by Mahlon Vail and Temecula farmers ; the following year, the first paved, two-lane road through Temecula was built.
By 1947 the Vail Ranch had expanded to 354 square kilometers. In 1948, the Vail family built a dam to dam Temecula Creek , creating Vail Lake . In the mid-1960s, the local economy was centered on the Vail Ranch, and livestock and agriculture gave new impetus to the local economy. The Vail Ranch was sold to the Kaiser Land Development Company in 1964 . Later, the 395 km² large piece of land changed hands again and was henceforth called Rancho California .
In the early 1980s, Interstate 15 between Los Angeles County and San Diego was completed and the demand for land increased. The Rancho California was raised in 1989 with the current name Temecula to the city .
The following decade made Temecula grow strongly; Many families, particularly from San Diego and Orange Counties, settled in Temecula, attracted by low property prices and local viticulture . In 1999 the shopping center "The Promenade In Temecula" opened.
21st century
In 2005, the city expanded by incorporating the neighboring planned settlement Redhawk. As a result of this affiliation, the population rose to 90,000. After a period of above-average population growth and house construction, the crisis in the subprime market and the subsequent real estate bubble led to many foreclosures in the Murrieta and Temecula area.
politics
Temecula is part of the 36th District in the California Senate , currently represented by Republican Joel Anderson, and the 64th and 66th Districts of the California State Assembly , represented by Democrat Isadore Hall, III. and Al Muratsuchi. Temecula is also a member of California's 49th Congressional District , which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R + 4 and is represented by Democrat Mike Levin .
Town twinning
Temecula has twinned cities with two towns:
tourism
Wine region
More than 40 years after Richard Break and Leon Borel founded viticulture in the Temecula Valley with the planting of 56 different grape varieties in five locations, the Temecula Valley was recognized as a wine-growing region . In 1967, John Moramarco was the first to plant a 4 km² field with vines in order to use the yield economically. Today there are more than 35 wineries in the Temecula Valley, with a total of 14 km² being used for viticulture. The cultivation takes place east of the city center. Wine tastings are offered in the city center itself. The Temecula Valley Balloon and Wine Festival is held annually on Lake Skinner , just outside the city limits . It offers entertainment, hot air balloon rides, and wine tastings. Many of the local winemakers take part in the festival.
The Temecula Valley is a recognized American Viticultural Area (AVA, German: American wine region; designation of origin).
Old town
The old town of Temecula includes buildings from the 1890s, many old shops, hotels, delicatessen shops, boutiques, souvenir shops, collectors' shops and antique shops. There are also car shows, western events and a summer program. Nightlife plays an increasingly important role at the weekend .
The Temecula Museum is also in the old town; it brings visitors closer to the Indians of Temecula as well as the natural history and development history of the city. Temecula's old town is also the location of the new town hall.
Sports
The freestyle motocross group Metal Mulisha comes from Temecula with members like Jeremy Stenberg , Brian Deegan and Ronnie Faisst , who still live in Temecula or neighboring towns.
There are nine golf courses in Temecula and the surrounding area .
Temecula was supposed to provide a club in the first season of the California Inline Hockey League , a league in inline hockey , in 1995 , but this has not happened to this day.
In the media
In 1996, the television movie A Weekend in the Country was set in Temecula. It's about couples visiting the local vineyards. Directed by Martin Bergman , Bergman wrote the screenplay together with Rita Rudner , who also played a role in the film. Other participating actors were Christine Lahti , Jack Lemmon , Dudley Moore , Richard Lewis and Betty White .
The pilot episode Beachhead science fiction series The Invaders was filmed partly in Temecula's Old Town. The scenes in the vineyard in the final episode of Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century were also filmed in Temecula.
The comedy film The Goods - Fast Cars, Fast Deals and an episode of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians series are set in Temecula.
In the album Please Orca by the rock band Dirty Projectors , the song "Temecula Sunrise" is named after the city.
Ronald Reagan and Temecula
In a speech to the United States Olympic Committee in March 1983, US President Ronald Reagan praised Temecula and the volunteer work of its residents. Back then, Temecula took another six years to become a city , and many projects were done by the community leaders and volunteers who provided money, work and equipment.
Reagan himself owned a 3.1 km² plot of land near Temecula from 1968 on and considered building a ranch there. But he sold it again eleven years later.
In 2005, on the 22nd anniversary of Reagan's speech, Rancho California Sports Park was renamed Ronald Reagan Sports Park .
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Nate Koch (* 1986), track cyclist
- Antonio Pontarelli (* 1991), singer and rock violinist
- Olivia Rodrigo (* 2003), actress and singer
Personalities associated with Temecula
- Terrell Davis (* 1972), former American football player, lives in Temecula
- Brian Deegan (* 1975), motocross freestyle biker, lives in Temecula
- Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970), writer, died in Temecula
- Christy Hemme (* 1980), former wrestler, grew up in Temecula
- Dan Henderson (* 1970), wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter, lives in Temecula
- Jerry Yang (* 1968), poker player, lives in Temecula
- Dean Norris (* 1963), actor known from Breaking Bad and Under the Dome , lives in Temecula
- Tori Kelly (* 1992), singer and songwriter, lives in Temecula
Web links
- Official website of Temecula
- Further information at City-Data.com
- Temecula Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Temecula website: Mayor (English)
- ↑ http://www.weather.com/ (English)
