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The 1978 Santa Barbara earthquake (also known as the Goleta earthquake), occurred on August 13, 1978, 3:54 p.m. with its epicenter beneath the Santa Barbara Channel. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The magnitude of the earthquake was estimated at M L 5.1 according to the Southern California Seismic Network ; however, it may have been as high as 5.6 M w . [ 1 ]
The Goleta postal facility shootings were a spree killing perpetrated by Jennifer San Marco on January 30, 2006. San Marco, a former United States Postal Service employee, shot and killed six people in Goleta, California, before taking her own life. Prior to the Goleta shooting, she shot and killed a former neighbor in nearby Santa Barbara.
Goleta (/ ɡ ə ˈ l iː t ə / gə-LEE-tə; Spanish:; Spanish for "schooner") [12] is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, United States.It was incorporated as a city in 2002, after a long period as the largest unincorporated populated area in the county.
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The struggle between Goleta and Santa Barbara to include the area within their sphere of influence, usually the first step towards eventual annexation, took a new twist in May 2005, when residents of the area presented a petition to Santa Barbara City Hall with 4,150 signatures, requesting inclusion in Santa Barbara's sphere of influence.
In the early 1930s, an airfield and flight school were established in Goleta, California that would later be named the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Authority recommended expanding the airfield in the interest of national defense which led to the city purchasing another 568 acres (2.30 km 2) and building another terminal and filling in the Goleta Slough to make ...
For every 100 females, there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.7 males. There were 11,133 housing units at an average density of 1,000.3 per square mile, of the occupied units 8,304 (78.1%) were owner-occupied and 2,327 (21.9%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.9%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.5%.
[citation needed] Starting in 2010, the Isla Vista CDP boundaries were revised to exclude various areas, including Storke Ranch and the Storke Plaza shopping center, which are now in the City of Goleta, reducing the CDP land area to 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2). [31] [32]