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Hemet was named by the land development company that founded the town, The Lake Hemet Land Company. The company drew its name from Hemet Valley, now called Garner Valley, located in the San Jacinto Mountains. Initially, the company referred to the area as South San Jacinto, but changed the name to Hemet when the land company filed a plat map on ...
Pages in category "Hemet, California" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
Hemet-Ryan Airport is located 3 miles (5 km) southwest of central Hemet, and serves as a municipal general aviation airport. Its elevation is 1,512 feet (461 m). It has two runways, one of which is 4,314 by 100 ft (1315 by 30 m) and has an asphalt surface.
Lake Hemet is a water storage reservoir located in the San Jacinto Mountains in Mountain Center, Riverside County, California, [1] with a capacity of 14,000 acre-feet (17,000,000 m 3) [2] of water. It was created in 1895 with the construction of Lake Hemet Dam . [ 3 ]
Reinhardt Canyon is located in the Lakeview Mountains, just west of Hemet in Riverside County, California. [ 1 ] The prehistoric petroglyph known as the Hemet Maze Stone , California Historical Landmark No. 557, is located in the canyon.
East Hemet is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States, located east of Hemet. East Hemet is in an unincorporated area outside the city limits of Hemet. The population was 17,418 at the 2010 census, up from 14,823 at the 2000 census.
The Western Science Center (WSC), formerly the Western Center for Archaeology & Paleontology, [1] is a museum located near Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California.The WSC is home to a large collection of Native American artifacts and Ice Age fossils that were unearthed at Diamond Valley Lake, including "Max", the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian ...
This category includes notable people who were born in, lived in, or are otherwise associated with, the city of Hemet, California. Pages in category "People from Hemet, California" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.