Calimesa, California
Riverside County
06-09864
Calimesa is a city in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California. Raised in 1990 to the city, Calimesa is one of the younger cities in Riverside County and with only 7879 inhabitants also its second smallest. Calimesa is located in the San Gorgonio Pass.
Geography
Calimesa is in the north of the Riverside County in the U.S. state of California on the border of San Bernardino County. Adjacent locations are in the south Beaumont, Cherry Valley to the east, the north and Yucaipa Redlands in the northwest. On the road network Calimesa is connected via Interstate 10, which runs right through the city.
The region to the Calimesa is heard referred to as the Inland Empire, considered differentiated Calimesa is in the Yucaipa Valley and on the western edge of the San Gorgonio Pass.
Calimesa has 7879 inhabitants (as of 2010 census ) and covers an area of 38.454 km ², which completely composed of the country; The population density is therefore 204.9 people per square kilometer and is comparatively low. At the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, the center of Calimesa is located at an altitude of 729 m.
History
The recent history of Calimesa and surrounding areas began in 1769 with the establishment of Spanish missions in Alta California. Since a land route was not found on these missions, Juan Bautista de Anza led in 1774 to a discovery tour through California. The first evidence for a route from the mission stations in Arizona to Mission San Gabriel ArcángelSan Gabriel Mission are from the year 1820. The San Gabriel Mission was far from today's Los Angeles and had with Assistencia in Redlands and the San Gorgonio Rancheria in today's Cherry Valley also outpost near the later Calimesa. The San Gorgonio Rancheria became a stopover for travelers on the new overland route.
Calimesa was created as a rural town with lots of houses and farms. With the completion of U.S. Highway 99 (now Interstate 10) several companies were founded and Calimesa developed its own identity, independent of the neighboring city of Yucaipa. In June 1929 took 100 people attended a meeting in which the desire was expressed to have their own post office; further to create a competition to select a place name to life, where the winner could win $ 10. Under 107 proposals submitted, finally won through Calimesa. The name is a composite of " Cali " from the English word " California" and the Spanish word " mesa ", the " high- level " means. The first post office was established in a grocery store. It helped to strengthen the feeling of independence Calimesas inhabitants compared to the neighboring town of Yucaipa.
1939 or 1940 Calimesa Improvement Association, Inc. was founded. According to its statutes it sees its main task in the development and improvement of Calimesa and the community. Later, the South Mesa Water Company of Redlands - Yucaipa Land Company bought a park off to its use as a drilling site, but the site also provided for community events available. Volunteers built a community center here. In 1962, went out of Calimesa Calimesa Improvement Association, the Chamber of Commerce produced. Both organizations have promoted Calimesa, done charitable work and deals with problems of the citizens.
Since 1949 Calimesa has a fire station, previously the town was dependent on the California Department of Forestry in Yucaipa.
Emergence of the City of Calimesa
Calimesa received on 1 December 1990 by the State of California to the municipal law and has been a City; the neighboring city of Yucaipa had been recently appointed as an independent city. So far, Calimesa existed as a community of free Census-designated place, which extended from Riverside County over the Countygrenze away to the San Bernardino County into it. Historically, this boundary line was marked by the Wildwood Canyon Wash, today he is largely identical with the course of County Line Road, only by the Calimesa Creek it comes to small deviations. A large part of the once unincorporated settlement Calimesa is now one of Yucaipa: Because the California law prohibits the establishment of a countyübergreifenden city, the area had to be shared. Here Yucaipa fell to the area outside the Yucaipa Valley, in which it was the actual Calimesa. Although the two cities are located in different counties, they have a common road network, in the run across many roads to another County and retained names and house numbering.
In the past decade several buildings plan settlements were to the development of Calimesa approved, including JP Ranch Development ( approximately 375 houses), Calimesa Springs Development (about 270 houses), Summerwind Ranch at Oak Valley ( 5000 houses and 93,000 m² for commercial use ) and Mesa Verde ( approximately 3800 houses and 81,000 m² for commercial use ). The number of currently approved new housing units exceeds the current population, but the construction work has slowed down, as the demand is not sufficient.
Policy
Calimesa is part of the 23rd District in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Republican Bill Emmerson, and the 42nd District of the California State Assembly, represented by Republican Brian nest changes. Furthermore belongs to Calimesa California's 36th congressional district, which a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 1 and is represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz.