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The Santa Barbara County area, including the Northern Channel Islands, was first settled by Native Americans at least 13,000 years ago.Evidence for a Paleoindian presence has been found in the form of a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western Santa Barbara Coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning ' Saint Barbara ') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States excepting Alaska, the city lies between the steeply rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.
Location of Santa Barbara County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Barbara County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
Update, 10:30 a.m. Jan. 5: Evacuation orders in Santa Barbara County have been lifted, as of 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The evacuations had impacted residents in the Thomas, Alisal and Cave fire burn areas.
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse, one of the city's main tourist attractions, was completed in 1929. World War II brought sweeping change to the Santa Barbara area. The U.S. Marines took up residence on the high ground adjacent to Goleta Point, current location of the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.
Carpinteria (/ k ɑːr p ɪ n t ə ˈ r iː ə /; Spanish: Carpintería, meaning "Carpentry") is a small seaside city in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California. Located on the Central Coast of California, it had a population of 13,264 at the 2020 census. Carpinteria is a popular surf destination; the city embraced the slogan "World's ...
Hope Ranch is an unincorporated coastal suburb of Santa Barbara, California, located in Santa Barbara County. It is bounded on the east by Santa Barbara, on the north and west by the unincorporated area of the eastern Goleta Valley, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. As of the 2000 census, the area had an approximate population of 2,200.
A rare vagrant Ivory Gull on a Central Coast beach. The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes the rugged, rural, and sparsely populated stretch of coastline known as Big Sur.