Huntington Beach, California
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, located 35 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. It is known for its long 9.5-mile stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. In the summer, temperatures rarely exceed 85° F.
About Huntington Beach, California in brief
Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, located 35 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. The city is named after American businessman Henry E. Huntington. It is known for its long 9.5-mile stretch of sandy beach, mild climate, excellent surfing, and beach culture. The ocean waves are enhanced by a natural effect caused by the edge-diffraction of open ocean swells around Santa Catalina Island. The entire city of Huntington Beach lies in area codes 657 and 714, except for small parts of Huntington Harbour, which is in the 562 area code. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.9 square miles. 26.7 sq mi of it is land and 5.1 sq-mi is water. In the summer, temperatures rarely exceed 85° F. In the winter, temperatures are rarely below 40°.F. Even in the elevated portions of North America, almost all nights are almost all clear on all nights. There are about 14 inches of rain on all days of the year, and almost all of them are clear and dry. Ocean water temperatures average 55 °F. Ocean water water can reach 15 mph. Ocean temperatures can reach 55 °F to 65 ° F.Ocean water water average 55 mph to 65 °. Ocean temperature can reach 20 °C in the morning and 15 °C in the evening. The population was 189,992 during the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous city inOrange County, the most populous beach city, and the seventh most populouscity in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its estimated 2019 population was 199,223. The original Huntington Beach Pier was built in 1904 and was originally a 1,000-foot-long timber structure. Its original developer was Huntington Beach Company, a real-estate development firm owned by Henry Huntington. The company is now wholly owned by the Chevron Corporation. Huntington Beach was primarily agricultural in its early years with crops such as lima beans, asparagus, peppers, celery and sugar beets. Later it became known as Fairview and then Pacific City, as it developed into a tourist destination. In order to secure access to the Pacific Electric Red Car lines that used to criss-cross Los Angeles and ended in Long Beach, Pacific City ceded enormous power to railroad magnate Huntington, and thus became a city whose name has been written into corporate sponsorship, and like much of the history of Southern California. Meadowlark Airport, a small general-aviation airport, existed in Huntington Beach from the 1940s until 1989. It was also known as Gospel Swamp for the revival meetings that were held in the marshland where the community college Golden West College can currently be found. The first high school, Huntington Beach High School, located on Main Street, was built on 1906. The school’s team, the Oilers, is name after the city’s original natural resource.
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