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Santa Ynez (/ ɪ ˈ n ɛ z / ee-NEZ; Spanish for "St. Agnes") is an unincorporated community in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County, California, United States.. The population was 4,505 at the 2020 census, up from 4,418 at the 2010 census.
Santa Ynez Valley Transit provides service to the communities of Buellton, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez, and Solvang. Route A is a clockwise-oriented route through the four communities, traveling along State Route 246 as its primary thoroughfare.
The Santa Ynez River is one of the largest rivers on the Central Coast of California.It is 92 miles (148 km) long, [3] flowing from east to west through the Santa Ynez Valley, reaching the Pacific Ocean at Surf, near Vandenberg Space Force Base and the city of Lompoc.
The Santa Ynez Mountains were uplifted in Pliocene and Pleistocene time, [3] beginning about five million years ago, along the Santa Ynez Fault, a feature which is considered to be active. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] The left bend in the San Andreas Fault is proposed to have constrained northward moving lithosphere to cause uplift of the range. [ 2 ]
Rancho del Cielo is a ranch located atop the Santa Ynez Mountain range northwest of Santa Barbara, California. For more than 20 years, it was the vacation home of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The 688-acre (278 ha) ranch's Spanish name translates to Sky's Ranch or Heaven's Ranch in English.
Cachuma Lake is a reservoir in the Santa Ynez Valley of central Santa Barbara County, California on the Santa Ynez River adjoining the north side of California State Route 154. The artificial lake was created by the construction of Bradbury Dam, a 201 ft (61 m) earth-fill structure built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1953.
Rainfall following another winter blaze, the Thomas fire — which started in December 2017 in the Santa Ynez Mountains above Ventura and Santa Barbara counties — created some of California’s ...
State Route 246 (SR 246) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from Lompoc east to Solvang and Santa Ynez, cutting through the Santa Ynez Valley and the Santa Barbara Wine Country. Its western terminus is at the western city limits of Lompoc, and its eastern terminus is at State Route 154 near Santa Ynez. [2] [3]