Thousand Oaks is the second largest city in Ventura County, California, United States. It is located in the northwestern part of Greater Los Angeles, about 35 miles (56 km) from Downtown Los Angeles and less than 15 m (24 km) from the Los Angeles Woodland Hills neighborhood. It was named after many oaks growing in the area, and the city seal is adorned with teak trees.
The city forms the central center of the Conejo Valley. Thousand Oaks was founded in 1964, but has since expanded to the west and east. Two thirds of the neighboring village of Westlake and most of Newbury Park were annexed by the city during the late 1960s and 1970s. The Los Angeles County-Ventura County line crosses the eastern border of the city with Westlake Village. The population is estimated to be 129.339 by 2015, up from 126,683 at the 2010 census. Thousand Oaks is 55 square miles, which, for comparison, is 20 percent larger than San Francisco.
Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park are part of the master planned city, which was created by the Investment Janss Company in the mid-1950s. It includes about 1,000 custom homes, 2,000 single family residences, regional shopping malls, 200-acre industrial parks (0.81 km km) and several neighborhood shopping malls. The average house price is about $ 669,500.
Thousand Oaks is one of the safest cities in America based on consistent FBI reporting. It ranks fourth safest among cities with a population of over 100,000 in the United States by the FBI Uniform Crime Report 2013.
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Etymology
One of the earliest names used for the area was Conejo Mountain Valley, as used by Newbury Park founder Egbert Starr Newbury, in the 1870s. During the 1920s, Thousand Oaks today is home to 100 residents. In the 1920s came talks coming up with names for specific areas of Thousand Oaks. A local name contest was held, in which the 14-year-old Bobby Harrington's name advocacy prevailed: Thousand Oaks. The valley - and still - is marked by tens of thousands of oak trees (50-60,000 in 2012).
When the city was later founded in 1964, Janss Corporation proposed the name of Conejo City (Conejo City). The petition was signed by enough residents to place "Thousand Oaks" on the ballot. The majority - 87% - of the 19,000 inhabitants of the city chose the name Thousand Oaks in the election of 29 September 1964.
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History
Pre-colonial period
The Chumash people were the first to inhabit what is now called Thousand Oaks, settling there more than 10,000 years ago. It is home to two great villages: Sap'wi ("Deer House") and Satwawa ("The Bluffs"). Sap'wi is now by the Chumash Interpretation Center which is home to some 2,000 year-old pictographs. The Satwawa is now the Indian Cultural Center standing at the foot of Mount Boney in Newbury Park, a sacred mountain for Chumash.
A smaller village, Yitimas? H, located on the Wildwood SD spot sitting today. The area around Wildwood Regional Park has been inhabited by Chumash for thousands of years. Some of the artifacts found in Wildwood include stone tools, shell beads and arrows. Another small Chumash settlement, known as ihaw (Ven-632i), is located where Lang Ranch sits today. The cave contains some picnic swordfish and cupul lies here. The other two villages are located on Jalan Taman Ventu currently in Newbury Park. It was inhabited 2,000 years ago and has a population of 100-200 in each village. Other villages include Lalimanuc (Lalimanux) and Kay? W ?? (Kayiwish) by Conejo Grade.
The Chumash also has several summer camps, including those located where the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is currently standing, known as Ipuc (Ven-654). Another summer camp is located at the current Los Robles Hospital location.
Each village is governed by a tribal chief or several tribal chiefs, who often travel between villages to discuss matters of mutual interest. An elder council directs village life and organizes events. Most villages have graves, playgrounds, sweat houses, and places for ceremonies. Tribal artifacts found locally on display at the Native American Indian Culture Center and Chumash Indian Museum.
The historical record of this area was recorded in 1542 when the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed at Point Mugu and claimed the land for Spain. The Triunfo battle, which took place by Triunfo Creek, was waged on land between the natives of Chumash and the Spanish newcomers.
19th century
From 1804 to 1848, Thousand Oaks was part of Alta California, originally a Spanish government in North America. It was the Spaniards who first named it the Valley of Conejo, or the Valley of the Rabbits. The Spaniards and the indigenous Chumash clashed several times in land disputes. The Valley of Conejo was named El Rancho Conejo in 1803. This year Jose Polanco and Ignacio Rodriguez were awarded El Rancho Conejo by the Governor JosÃÆ'Â © JoaquÃÆ'n de Arrillaga of Alta California. The land has 48,671.56 hectares. El Conejo is just one of the two land grants in what became Ventura County, the other being Rancho Simi.
As a result of the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, Alta California became a Mexican territory. In 1822, Captain JosÃÆ'Â © de la Guerra y Noriega filed the Conejo Valley as part of a Mexican land grant. It remained part of Mexico until the short-lived California Republic was founded in 1846. It became part of the US after California gained statehood in 1850. The valley is now known as Rancho El Conejo. The period of the ranch began when the de la Guerra's family sold thousands of hectares until the 1860s and early 1870s.
Two men had most of the Conejo Valley in the 1870s: John Edwards, originally from Wales in 1849, and Howard Mills, who came from Minnesota in 1870. While Edwards owns most of the current Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park, Mills has a large part of Westlake Village and Hidden Valley. Edwards House is located on a one hectare land where The Oaks Mall is currently located, while Mills is building his home where Westlake Lake is today. The third person who bought the former land of Rancho El Conejo was Egbert Starr Newbury. He bought 2,259 hectares of land here in 1874, a land that stretches from the Old City of Thousand Oaks and to Newbury Park today. He then set up the first post office in the valley in 1875: Newbury Park Post Office. When the Conejo Valley School District was founded in March 1877, there were 126 residents living in the Conejo Valley.
In the late 19th century, Newbury Park was on a rail line between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The Stagecoach Inn (Grand Union Hotel) was built in 1876, and is now a California History Landmark and museum.
Norwegian colony
Thousand Oaks was home to the Norwegian community in the late 1890s and early 1900s, known as the Norwegian Colony. Norwegian settlers were among the first to settle in the Conejo Valley. The Norwegian colony is located at the current Moorpark and Olsen crossroads, which is now the location of the University of California Lutheran (CLU) and the surrounding area. The Norwegian colony consists of over 650 hectares and extends from Mount Clef Ridge to Avenida de Los Arboles. The son of Norwegian immigrants donated his ranch to the California Lutheran College in the 1950s. California Lutheran University is now home to Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation and Scandinavian Festival.
Many place names are named after Norwegian immigrants such as the Olsen and Pedersen families. The first Norwegians came from the village of Stranda by Storfjorden. Ole Anderson bought 199 acres here, while Lars Pederson has 111 hectares. Other Norwegian pioneers also include Ole Nilsen, George Hansen, and Nils Olsen. The main contribution was the construction of a handmade Norwegian Grade in 1911, a 1 mile walk from Thousand Oaks to Santa Rosa Valley.
Without a doctor or hospital nearby, the Norwegian Colony is short-lived. The Olsen family lost seven of their ten children, while Ole Anderson, Lars Pederson and George Hansen all died in 1901 due to the diphtheria epidemic.
20th century
Newbury Park is a more established and older community than the Thousand Oaks at the turn of the 20th century. Several lots existed in the early 1900s, sandwiched between Borchard land in the south and the land of Friedrich in the north. The Janss family, the Southern California subdivision developer, bought 10,000 acres (40 km 2 ) at the beginning of the 20th century. They have finally made plans for "total community" and the name remains prominently displayed in the city. Despite initial aspirations, no major subdivisions were developed until the 1920s. Its development was slow and hampered even under the Great Depression of the 1930s. In addition to agriculture, the film industry became an important industry in the 1920s and 1930s.
Between 1950 and 1970, the Conejo Valley experienced a population explosion, and increased its population from 3,000 to 30,000 inhabitants. Of 3,500 residents in 1957, Thousand Oaks had more than 103,000 inhabitants in 1989. While livestock and agriculture were the dominant industries until the 1950s, a number of new businesses emerged throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In particular many high-tech companies moved to Thousand Oaks in the 60s and 70s. Packard Bell and Technology Instrument Company were two high-tech companies that moved to Newbury Park industrial park in the 1960s. Other companies that followed included Astroelectronics Westinghouse Laboratories, Semtech Corporation, Purolator Inc., and Westland Plastics.
Jungleland USA put Thousand Oaks on the map in 1920 and helped attract Hollywood producers to the city. Hundreds of films have been filmed in Thousand Oaks. Some of the first films made here are The Birth of a Nation (1915) in Jungleland USA and
Film actor Joel McCrea was advised by Will Rogers to buy land in Thousand Oaks, and he then bought 3,000 acres here in the early 1930s. Many celebrities later joined McCrea and moved to the Conejo Valley, including Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Strother Martin, Virginia Mayo, Michael O'Shea, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens, Ronald Colman, George Brent, Eve Arden, Alan Ladd , Richard Widmark, Charles Martin Smith, and Bing- and Kurt Russell.
Although the city was inhabited by 1,700 businesses in 1970, Thousand Oaks had 11,000 businesses in the city in 1988.
The world's largest biotech company, Amgen, was founded in Newbury Park in 1980.
Jungleland USA
Louis Goebel of New York bought five lots from Ventura Boulevard (now Thousand Oaks Boulevard) in 1925. He worked for Universal Studios, and decided to create his own movie industry zoo after the closure of the Universal Zoo in the mid-1920s. He founded Goebel's Lion Farm in 1926, located where the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is located today. While Goebel started with five lions and seven voiced dogs, he soon found new animals such as giraffes, camels, hippos, monkeys, tigers, gorillas, seals, and other exotic animals.
It became home to some of the notorious Leo the Lion of MGM Pictures. There are held public animal shows, which attract thousands of viewers from all over California. Animals from the park have been used in various movies and TV series, including many Tarzan movies, Robin Hood Adventures (1938) (which were filmed on the site) and Doctors Doolittle (1967). Goebel herself camped on the set of the Tarzan movie, The Monkey Man (1932) by Lake Sherwood to watch the lions during filming.
It became one of the most popular tourist attractions in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s, when the 170-acre park offers performances, training lions, elephant rides, train rides, safari tram buses and more. The park was renamed Jungleland USA in 1956 after Disneyland was founded. The park went bankrupt in May 1969, due to competition from parks such as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and Universal Studios. The 1,800 animals in the park were sold at a public auction in October 1969.
Merge
The Thousand Oaks City was founded on October 7, 1964, the first city founded in the Conejo Valley. Some sources mistakenly state that Thousand Oaks was founded on September 29, 1964, which is the date when voters approve mergers and vote for names. However, the merger only became official after the election certificate was submitted to the California Secretary of State, and then a written statement of notice was filed to Ventura County Clerk.
The election result of the city was clear on September 24, 1964. 2,780 residents chose to establish a city, while 1,821 had chosen not to merge. But certain areas try to establish their own municipalities. The city's election attempt at Newbury Park, CA failed in 1963, because Talley Corporation and Janss Rancho Conejo Industrial Park refused to join in the effort. Reba Hays Jeffries, the city's local enemy, told the interviewer why he thinks city elections failed: City supporters must collect signatures from owners representing 29% of the land to be included. When efforts to collect 29% of registered voters, the action never reached the ballot. Most of Newbury Park's land was annexed during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Casa Conejo and Ventu Park are the only remaining part of Newbury Park, which is not part of the Thousand Oaks. Lynn Ranch also decided to stay outside the city limits.
Two-thirds of Westlake Village was annexed by Thousand Oaks in two parts - in 1968 and 1972. The Westlake North Ranch neighborhood remained unrelated until January 1973, when Thousand Oaks approved the annexation of North Ranch. North Ranch is bordered by Oak Park, CA, an unrelated area where voters choose not to be annexed into Thousand Oaks.
Modern history
Thousand Oaks encourages the development of retail and mixed housing along the downtown section of Thousand Oaks Boulevard. The city was "built" within the confines of the Conejo Valley and has adopted a smart growth strategy because there is no room for the city's vast suburban growth.
He is known as a planned community, because the city is one of the few that actually lives with the master plan. Improved development at Moorpark and Simi Valley in the late 1990s and early 2000s caused the Moorpark Freeway (Highway 23) to become very crowded during the morning and afternoon peak hours. Large widening projects started in 2008 to reduce most of this bottleneck. Due to the desired environment and location, property values ​​were valued at more than 250% in less than ten years, especially during the mid-1990s to early 2000s.
Geography
Thousand Oaks City Located in the Conejo Valley in southeast Ventura County, between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, and 12 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. The Conejo Valley is located at 900 feet; 55 of its 1,884 square miles are within the city limits of Thousand Oaks. By comparison, the city is larger in the area than Long Beach, CA, and 20 percent larger than San Francisco.
The designated open nature area occupies 34 percent of the city by 2017 (15,194 hectares). 928 hectares The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) is on the southern border of the city. Thousand Oaks is in the Greater Los Angeles Area and 38 miles west of Los Angeles. Malibu is located on the other side of the Santa Monica Mountains. The Conejo Valley is bordered by Santa Monica to the south, the Conejo Mountains to the west and north, and the Simi Hills to the northeast.
Thousand Oaks has grown due to the incorporation of neighboring towns. Two thirds of Westlake Village and most of Newbury Park were annexed by the city in the 1960s and 1970s.
Thousand Oaks is located on 34Ã, Â ° 11? 22? N 118Ã, Â ° 52? 30? W (34.189489, -118.875053). According to the US Census Bureau, the city has an area of ​​55.2 square miles (143 km 2 ). 55.0 square miles (142a, km 2 ) of it is ground and 0.15 square miles (0.39 km 2 ) of it (0.27%) is water.
Although Thousand Oaks has several shopping centers focused around the Janss Marketplace mall, The Oaks mall, and W. Thousand Oaks Blvd.), most of the city's residents live in a suburban community just a short distance from the city's commercial center. The large residential districts near Lynn Road in the north and west are examples of this gepok, despite attempts by Ventura District planners to reduce it. Many of the housing tracts are surrounded by walls. This design is intended to keep the heavy traffic from the residential streets.
Physiography
His physiography is dominated by prominent hills, surrounding mountains, open sights and native forest oaks. It is home to 50-60,000 oaks, and the city is characterized by many oaks and green hills.
The northern part consists of mountainous areas in the Simi Hills, Conejo Mountains and Mount Clef Ridge. A narrow gorge like Hill Canyon cuts a steeper mountain range. Mount Conejo and Conejo Grade are found in Newbury's most western park, while the southern part of Thousand Oaks consists of the Russell Valley, the Hidden Valley, and the steep slopes of the steep Santa Monica Mountains. The altitude ranges from 500 feet in the northwest to 2,403 feet of Simi Peak. The main drainage is Conejo Creek (Arroyo Conejo).
Wetlands include Eleanor Lake, Paradise Falls in Wildwood Regional Park, Twin Ponds at Dos Vientos and 7-acre Hill Canyon Wetlands.
Climate
This region undergoes a summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the KÃÆ'¶ppen climate classification) or a dry summer subtropical zone climate, with hot summers, sunny, dry and mild winters with moderate rainfall. Typical vegetation of the Mediterranean environment, with kaparal and grass on the hillside and many valleys west of oak trees. Its altitude ranges from about 500 to 900 feet (excluding mountains and hills). This area has a slightly cooler temperature than the surrounding area, because it receives cooler air from the ocean through various hills and through mountains. On March 10 and 11, 2006, snow fell on the summit of Mount Boney, the first snowfall that falls in the area about 20 years. The snow also fell on Boney Peak on 17 and 18 December 2008.
In line with other parts of California, daytime sun temperatures tend to fluctuate between 70-80 Â ° F (21-26 Â ° C) during the summer, and rarely fall below 60-65 Â ° F (15-18 Â ° C ) during the winter.
Demographics
Urban neighborhoods were built for blue and white collar classes in the 1950s. Today is an upscale city with a highly educated population. The US Census 2010 reported that Thousand Oaks had a population of 126,683. Population density was 2,295.8 persons per square mile (886.4 km/km 2 ). The racial makeup of Thousand Oaks is 101,702 (80.3%) White, 1,674 (1.3%) African American, 497 (0.4%) Native American, 11,043 (8.7%) Asian, 146 (0.1 %) Pacific Islands, 6,869 (5.4%) of other races, and 4.752 (3.8%) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 21,341 people (16.8%). The largest ancestral groups were German-Americans (15.8%), followed by Mexico (12.9%), Britain (11.7%), Ireland (10.7%), Italy (7.2%), Russia 3.4%), China (3.3%), France (3.2%), Poland (3.2%), Scotland (2.7%), India (2.7%), Norway (2, 2%) and Sweden (2%).
The census reported that 124,941 people (98.6% of the population) lived in households, 1,390 (1.1%) lived in unembienced groups, and 352 (0.3%) were institutionalized.
There were 45,836 households, of which 16,439 (35.9%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 27,206 (59.4%) were married couples living together, 4,260 (9.3% ) has a female household without a husband now, 1,925 (4,2%) has a male household without a wife. There are 1,761 (3.8%) unmarried partnerships of the opposite sex, and 284 (0.6%) married couples or couples of the same sex. 9,728 households (21.2%) consist of individuals and 4,459 (9.7%) have a person who lives alone aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.73. There were 33,391 families (72.8% of all households); the average family size is 3.15.
The population was spread with 30,076 people (23.7%) under the age of 18, 10,226 people (8.1%) aged 18 to 24, 29.853 people (23.6%) aged 25 to 44, 37.964 persons (30.0% aged 45 to 64 years. , and 18,564 people (14.7%) aged 65 years or older. The median age was 41.5 years. For every 100 women, there are 95.8 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 93.3 men.
There were 47,497 units of houses with an average density of 860.8 per square mile (332.3/km 2 ), of which 33,501 (73.1%) were occupied owners, and 12,335 (26.9 %) is occupied by the tenant. Homeowner vacancy rate is 0.8%; rental vacancy rate is 5.6%. 92,510 people (73.0% of the population) live in housing units occupied by owners and 32,431 people (25.6%) live in rental housing units.
The average income for households in the city is $ 121,088.
Government
Thousand Oaks does not directly elect the mayor; instead, council members take turns rotating into positions.
According to the financial statements of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (2009), these city funds have $ 118.1 million in revenues, $ 113.5 million in expenditures, $ 245.0 million in total assets, $ 63.4 million in total liabilities, and $ 214.2 Ã, million in investment:
The management structure and coordination of municipal services are:
The elected officials are well aware of the common anti-growth sentiments among citizens. All new developments are described as slow growth to be acceptable to society. The ordinance of protecting oaks and cities prioritizes planting on median roads and other public lands. More than 15,000 acres (61Ã, km 2 ) have been preserved as open spaces, which contain more than 75 miles (121 km) of track. Open space has been obtained through land dedication by developers, purchasing, and preservation of benefits. Open space donations have been made by Bob Hope and Joel McCrea. The biggest donor is the Prudential Company that develops the Westlake community and ends up giving over 3,000 hectares (1,200 ha).
Political power
The adjacent Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley are Republican strongholds in Ventura County. In 2007, Thousand Oaks had three Republic voters registered for each Democrat. More than 60 percent of registered Republican voters in 2008. However, by 2014, party registration for Thousand Oaks residents is 40.6% Republican, 31.6% Democrats, 22.1% have no preference, with the remainder shared between parties other.
Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have addressed California Lutheran University (CLU), while President George W. Bush visited Newbury Park in 2003.
Economy
While agriculture was the dominant industry in Thousand Oaks until the 1950s, a number of high-tech companies moved to Newbury Park in the 1960s. Today is home to a number of hightech and biotech companies, and has been dubbed the "next Silicon Valley" for this reason. Thousand Oaks was named one of the richest cities in the United States. It is ranked the 7th richest city in America by Trulia in 2013, it was ranked 13th richest city in the US by NerdWallet in 2016.
The city economy is based on a small number of businesses, with biotechnology, electronics, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, healthcare, and finance occupying most of the Thousand Oaks jobs sector. Amgen, Teledyne Technologies, SAGE Publications, and Skyworks Solutions have company headquarters in the city, while Bank of America, Baxter International, General Dynamics Corporation, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, Volkswagen, Audi, General Motors, BMW, Silver Star Automotive Group; Anthem Blue Cross manages regional offices. Thousand Oaks also has big companies like Los Robles Hospital & amp; Medical Center, Conejo Valley Integrated School District, Thousand Oaks City, Hyatt Hotel and California Lutheran University are headquartered in this city. The city is also a former home to Wellpoint and GTE corporate offices, which later became Verizon, which relocated in the past decade. Hewlett-Packard was also previously located here.
J.D. Power and Associates is headquartered in Thousand Oaks. JD Power began to move its employees from its former headquarters in Agoura Hills, California, to its current headquarters in Westlake section of Thousand Oaks on the weekend after 11 April 2002. The Thousand Oaks community, Westlake Village and Agoura Hills are served by the Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce, one of the few in California to receive four-star accreditation from the United States Chamber of Commerce. The small business community in Thousand Oaks is very strong; Fundera ranked the city's 5th best city in California for small businesses in a 2016 study.
Demographic data show that more local laborers live within 20 miles of their workplace, and fewer Thousand Oaks residents travel 30 miles to Los Angeles. More than 40 percent of the population is hired as an executive or business professional.
The average house price is $ 699,900, which is more than twice the average national house price. It had the second highest average home price in Ventura County in 1999.
Top entrepreneurs
According to the Comprehensive Annual City Financial Report 2016, the top companies in the city are:
Culture
The Conejo Valley Museum of Art has exhibited collections of artists such as Elizabeth Williams, David Rose and Howard Brodie. Chumash Indian Museum at Lang Ranch Pkwy has featured Chumash artifacts and a rebuilt Chumash village. Another museum, 1876 Stagecoach Inn, is located in Newbury Park and is a California Historical Landmark. Also in Newbury Park is the Native American Indian Culture Center, a museum at the foot of Mount Boney, which is a sacred site for the Chumash people. American Radio Archive is a museum in the Grant R. Brimhall Library dedicated to radio history.
Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is home to two theaters: 1,800 seat Fred Kavli Theater and Ray Scherr Forum Theater. Willie Nelson, Paul Anka, Vince Gill, Krisdayanti and Peter, Paul and Mary have performed at Fred Kavli Theater.
Conejo Players Theater has more than 200 active members and was founded in 1958. Hillcrest Center for the Arts is home to Gothic Productions, Young Artists Ensemble, A Thousand Guild Guild Actor and other groups. Hillcrest Center is also home to Classics in the Park , which organizes an annual summer concert at Conejo Community Park. Galleries include Fred Kavli Theater Gallery and Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery.
Conejo Valley Days is an annual spring festival with parades, rodeos and carnivals.
Public security
Fire Department
The Ventura County Fire Department (VCFD) provides emergency fire and medical protection services for Thousand Oaks and surrounding areas. American Medical Response is a provider of paramedical ambulances contracted for the area.
Law enforcement
The Thousand Oaks Police Department (TOPD) and the Ventura County Sheriff's Office provide law enforcement services for the city. The Thousand Oaks Police Department was established on 1 July 1965, nine months after the city was founded, and has contracted the sheriff's department to provide police services from the beginning.
Crime
Thousand Oaks is one of the safest cities in America according to consistent FBI reporting. In October 2013, Thousand Oaks was ranked the fourth safest city with a population of over 100,000 in America, according to the FBI's annual report. It has one of the lowest crime rates in California. The Niche Company places Thousand Oaks as the second most secure city in America by 2016. The city experienced its first murder in four years in October 2014. No murders occurred in 2015 or 2016.
Despite significant population growth since the 1990s, the city experienced a general decline in crime rates. In 2015 there are 1.05 violent crimes per 1,000 population, up from 0.99 in 2014. Overall, the city experienced a 1 percent crime reduction between 2014 and 2015. Small thefts are the most reported crime category by 2013, accounting for 40 percent of all evil.
Education
Thousand Oaks is served by the Conejo Valley Unified School District. Academic score in high school. Some schools scored in the top ten percent of schools in California. These include many elementary schools, Colina Middle School, Redwood Middle School, Los Cerritos Middle School. High schools in the area include the Thousand High School, Newbury Park High School, and Westlake High School. Also part of the school district is Sycamore Canyon Middle School and Sequoia Middle School, located in Newbury Park. The Christian High School of Oaks, while located just outside of Ventura County, matriculate many students from the area. La Reina High School is a private Catholic school of Rome, junior/high school.
The Thousand Oaks Library System is consistently classed as one of California's best public libraries. The library consists of Grant R. Brimhall Library at Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park Branch Library at Newbury Park. A children's library of 22,000 square feet (2,000 m) was added to the 62,000 square foot (5,800 m 2 main building) in June 2006. The expansion of children's libraries has resulted in an increase in child- children, salt water aquarium 3800 gallons; quiet study room; technology training room; children's programming room; and additional seating and shelf capacity for the children's service area and the adult service area. The main library and Newbury Park Branch offer free wireless Internet access.
For more than ten years in a row, California Lutheran University (CLU) has been ranked among "the top 25 universities in the Western United States" by the US. News & amp; World Report published by America's Best Colleges Guide. It is ranked 14th in 2018.
Sports
AYSO soccer, Club Soccer such as Apex Soccer Club, Newbury Park Soccer Club and Conejo Valley United, Conejo Youth Basketball Association, also known as CYBA, Conejo Valley Thunder Wrestling, Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, CYFFA flag soccer, , organized swimming team leagues, ice hockey, and even lacrosse, rugby, and organized hockey have active programs. Conejo Simi Swim Club is the oldest teen swimming program (est. 1974) and most successful in this area.
Ventura County Fusion, a small league football team playing in the Premier League Development League, while based in Ventura, has held a home game at Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park. Conejo Oaks's semi-pro baseball team plays at Thousand Oaks in Sparky Anderson Field.
The Ventura County Outlaws, a rugby union team that competes in the Southern California Rugby Football Union, based in Thousand Oaks.
In professional sports, the city is home to Sherwood Country Club, a golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. The annual golf tournament Chevron World Challenge hosted by Tiger Woods takes place in the field from 2000 to 2013.
Los Angeles Lightning is a local basketball team based at Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center at California Lutheran University.
Thousand Oaks has been the location of several Tour of California, professional race races.
Professional Football
For 27 years, California Lutheran University (CLU) organized a training camp for the Dallas Cowboys. The last camp was held in 1989. The CLU football training ground used by the Cowboys as well as the Kingsford CLU football team was replaced by a major sports complex in 2006. The Cowboys Clubhouse in Thousand Oaks is still standing opposite the complex, and is currently a family residence. The temporary headquarters and training facilities of the Los Angeles Rams will also be located on the same campus starting in 2016 until the team builds up their permanent training complex in Los Angeles (in a separate July 2016 agreement, Rams signed a three-year contract with UC Irvine using the University's Crawford Field camp team training.)
Baseball
In August 1994, a team from Thousand Oaks Little League became the first Small League team in Ventura County to win the World Championships, winning the World Series Junior 20-3 championship. In 1996, the Senior Division (age 14-16) of the Thousand Oaks Little League team won the National Championship. Two years later in 1998, the Great League Division (ages 17-18) of the Conejo Valley Little League team won the World Championships, defeating Venezuela 10-9 in the World Cup Big League and playing 26-1 at the tournament. In 2006, Thousand Oaks won the World Championships in the Great League Division (ages 16-18) from the Little League by defeating a team from Puerto Rico 10-0. The Thousand Oaks Big League team was also the runner-up of the World Series in 2003 and 2005. In 2007, they were runners-up United States. In 2009, they won the United States Championship and performed at prime time on ESPN. In the summer of 2004, the Little League National Championship team came from Thousand Oaks. The Conejo Valley East teams of 11 and 12 years went 22-0 at local, regional, and World Series tournaments claiming a national title at the 2004 Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania before losing an international title game to teams from CuraÃÆ'§ao, Caribbean.
Media
Thousand Oaks Acorn is the main newspaper covering Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, and Westlake Village. Ventura County Star is a wider regional newspaper that includes Ventura County. The circulation of the Los Angeles Times increased after newspapers began covering the Conejo Valley in 1987.
Thousand Oaks is home to several radio station stations including KCLU-FM, and NPR radio stations based in California Lutheran University (CLU). Other radio station transmitters located at Thousand Oaks include KDSC (repeater for Los Angeles' KUSC) which aired Classical Music on 91.1, KYRA aired EMF's Christian Rock, Air1 at 92.7, and K280DT, KOST-FM Los Angeles translator, aired Adult Contemporary music.
Thousand Oaks TV (TOTV) is a 24-hour cable TV station established by the city in 1987.
The first newspaper, Wesel Post , was published in the 1940s. Conejo Valley News was founded in 1954, while Village Chronicle was founded in 1959. Thousand Oaks Journal was another early local newspaper in the 1960s.
Transportation
Road
Thousand Oaks is located in the heart of the Conejo Valley, with the city of Los Angeles to the east and the town of Ventura to the west. The city is serviced by US Route 101 (Ventura Freeway), as well as State Route 23. Highway 101 runs through the city and connects it to Los Angeles and Ventura. CA Route 23 connects to 101 near Thousand Oaks town center, stretches north towards Moorpark and Simi Valley, and basically divides the city into two. Thousand Oaks is also served by Thousand Oaks Transit (TOT), which provides public transport in the form of transport and buses. The TOT bus provides services to Thousand Oaks as well as several neighboring communities.
Public transport
The regional transportation center provides buses and shuttle lines to Los Angeles, Oxnard, Ventura, Moorpark, Simi Valley and Santa Barbara via the VISTA, Metro, and LADOT Commuter Express bus lines. In addition to being a transfer station from Los Angeles and other nearby cities, it also serves as the main station for the Transit Thousand Oaks bus. The Ventura County and Pacific Surfliner Metrolink services are available at the railway stations at Moorpark and Camarillo. Amtrak Coast Starlight stops at Oxnard Transit Center and Simi Valley Amtrak/Metrolink Station.
Air
Commercial air travel is provided primarily by Los Angeles International Airport for regular passengers, while Bob Hope Airport (in Burbank) offers an alternative to domestic destinations. Thousand Oaks offers public transport to both airports, via the VISTA, Metro and LADOT bus lines. Los Angeles International Airport is about 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the city, while Burbank Airport is about 35 miles (56 km) east of the city. Common airport flights include Camarillo Airport, about 15 miles (24 km) west of the city; Oxnard Airport, about 25 miles (40 km) west of the city in Oxnard, California; and Van Nuys Airport, 25 miles (40 km) east of the city.
The now closed Conejo Valley Airport operates in Thousand Oaks from 1926 to 1962 with a 2,600 foot (792 meter) airstrip. When the new Freeway 101 route cuts off part of the original airfield was closed. It serves general aviation, and features air tour services. On May 5, 1960, Rancho Conejo Airport opened as a substitute, northwest of Conejo Valley Airport. The new facility is considered an 'executive airport', with a paved and lighted runway along 4,500 feet (1,372 meters). Air schools, restaurants and air charter services operate there for several years. The airport appeared in This A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World in 1963; some Three Stooges episodes were filmed there. Rancho Conejo Airport closed in 1966.
In popular culture
Due to its moderate climate and relatively close proximity to studios in Hollywood, numerous movies and television series have been filmed in Thousand Oaks. Thousand Oaks Boulevard for example can be seen in the Oscar-winning film It It's Happened One Night (1934), while Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stop at a workshop on Live Oak Street in Hollywood or Bust. (1956). Hill near California Lutheran University (CLU) was used in the filming of Welcome to Hard Times (1967). Spartacus (1960) was also filmed by CLU.
A number of film production took place at Wildwood Regional Park between the 1930s and 1960s. Examples include Wuthering Heights (1939), Dodge City (1939), The Rifleman (1958-63), Davy Crockett, from the Frontier (1955), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Duel in the Sun (1946), Bonanza 1963-73), the Great Valley (1965-69), Gunsmoke (1955-75), i> Remove Range (1931), Flaming Frontier (1958), The Horse Soldiers (1959) starring John Wayne, Roustabout ) (1964), and Flaming Star (1960) both starring Elvis Presley, among others.
Recently, Greenfield Ranch emerged as a zoo in We Buy a Zoo (2011). Previous farms have been featured in movies such as Down Argentine Way (1940), Heart and Souls (1993) and Bitter Harvest (1993). It has also been seen on TV series such as True Blood (2008-2014), Monk (2002-2009), Bones (2005) -2017 ) and Criminal Minds (2005-). A Hidden Valley house is also used in the making of the film It's Complicated (2009), starring Meryl Streep.
Other films include Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Come on, Tarzan (1932), Robin Hood Adventure (1938), To Iwo Jima Beach (1945), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967-69) and The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-85).
Famous people
- Austin Block (born 1989), ice hockey player
- Amanda Bynes, actress
- Britney Spears, singer
- Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player
- Hailee Steinfeld, actress
- Sylvester Stallone, actor
- Ellen DeGeneres, television host
- Thomas Tull, the film producer
- Heather Locklear, actress
- Aaron Donald, soccer player
- Jared Goff, football player
- Belinda Carlisle, singer
- Heather Morris, actress
- Dean Martin, singer
- Frances Prince, the first female mayor.
- Kurt Russell, actor
- Marilyn Monroe, actress
- Richard Carpenter, musician
- Olivia O'Brien, Singer-Songwriter
- Artie Shaw, Musician
Destination
- The American Radio Archive, a museum dedicated to radio history
- California Lutheran University
- Chumash Indian Museum, a museum with a replica of the village of Chumash
- The Conejo Valley Museum of Art, an art museum in the Janss Marketplace
- Botanical Gardens of the Conejo Valley, 33-acre botanical garden
- Conejo Valley High: the oldest continuous public landmark used in Conejo Valley (aka Timber School)
- The Dawn Peak, locally known as Tarantula Hill, the highest point in Thousand Oaks
- Gardens of the World, botanical gardens displaying the flora of different countries
- The Oaks Shopping Center, the largest shopping center in Ventura County
- Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, City Hall venue and Fred Kavli Theater
- Thousand Oaks Library, the largest library in Ventura County
- The Cultural Center of Culture, the Chumash museum in the foothills of Mount Boney
- Sherwood Country Club, host of Tiger Wood World Challenge from 2000 to 2013
- Stagecoach Inn, historic hotel in Newbury Park
- Wildwood Regional Park, park area of ​​1,765 acres
Wildlife
The Thousand Oaks fauna includes mammals such as mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, gray foxes and mule mules, as well as smaller mammals as skunk-and-visible, California raccoons, Virginia opossum, Audubon cottontails, long-tailed corsets, Botta gopher pockets, ring-tailed cat, California vole, western brush rabbit, western gray squirrel, and several species of mice and rats, where the most common are mice deer and Merriam kangaroo rats. Dangerous lions often create dangers in the suburbs, but are generally found only in the adjacent Simi Hills, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Santa Susana Mountains. Some of the amphibians and reptiles found in Thousand Oaks include lizards such as despicable lizards, southern crocodile lizards and western lizards, and southwestern turtles and turtles, and many species of snakes, including the southern Pacific rattlesnake, the San Diego snake gopher, a striped racer, a California kingsnake, a general kingsnake, a serpent ringneck, and a western aquatic serpent. Some of the amphibians found in Thousand Oaks include ensatina, slim salamander, western frog, American bullfrog, California frog, Pacific tree frog, and California red-legged frog.
It has been observed a total of 171 bird species within the city limits. Avifauna most commonly encountered include sparrows, finches, blackbird Brewer, California towhee, spotted towhee, oak tail, acorn woodpecker, and California quail. The raptor population density in the Conejo Valley, which therefore has some of the largest bird pickers in the US. Some of the birds of prey found in the Thousand Oaks City include golden eagles, red tailed hawks, Cooper hawks, hawk swamps, sharp. hawked eagles, red-shouldered eagles, hard-skined eagles, dove eagles, hawk meadow, turkey birds, owls, big-horned owls, cheerful owls, American birds and white-tailed kites.
Wildwood Regional Park is a natural habitat for many native animals, such as coyotes, hawks, crawdads, ducks, turtles, mule deer, many singing birds, mountain lions, several species of snakes, and many species of raptors.
Thousand Oaks is home to mountain lions that can be found or observed in most of the city's open spaces. The city recommends pedestrians not to hike alone, and always to keep the kids close. Mountain lions have been encountered many times in recent years, such as at Lynn Ranch in 2017 and Newbury Park in 2016.
Flora
Thousand Oaks is home to over 100 plant species, while 400 species can be found within a 100-square-mile radius. city. There are four species of rare plants: Conejo soba, Santa Monica dudleya, Conejo dudleya and pentachaeta Lyon. There are between 50- and 60,000 oak trees in Thousand Oaks.
References
External links
- Official website
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