Hemet, California
Riverside County
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Hemet is a city in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California with 78 657 inhabitants ( 2010) and a size of 72.124 km ². Together with the neighboring city of San Jacinto, it forms the San Jacinto Valley.
Founded in 1887, acquired in 1910 Hemet independence status. At that time, lived 992 people in the city. The construction of the reservoir Lake Hemet helped the city to grow and gave the local agriculture buoyancy.
Hemet is known for the play The Ramona Pageant. It is listed since 1923 and is one of the oldest open-air theater pieces of the United States.
According to Robert Vaughn Young Hemet is the actual center of the Scientology sect.
- 2.1 Timeline
- 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town
- 5.2 associated with Hemet personalities
Geography
Hemet is located in western Riverside counties in California in the United States. Southwest of the city limits is the Diamond Valley Lake. In the southwest of Hemet is adjacent to the village of Winchester, on the east by East Hemet and Valle Vista, and on the north by the city of San Jacinto, the San Jacinto Valley forms with the Hemet. This is surrounded by the Santa Rosa Hills and San Jacinto Mountains. There is apart from the Diamond Valley Lake from dry land.
Major cities in the area include Riverside 50km northwest and San Diego 110 km south of Hemet. From Los Angeles ' downtown Hemet is 130 km away.
Hemet has 78 657 inhabitants (as of 2010) and covers an area of 72.124 km ², which is made entirely from the country; the population density is thus 1090.6 people per square kilometer and is average. The center of Hemet is located at an altitude of 486 m.
Infrastructure
On the road network Hemet is connected via the California State Routes 74 and 79. The streets in Hemet are predominantly in a grid-like road network ( engl. grid) arranged.
Air traffic is handled by the Hemet - Ryan Airport, which is subordinate to the Riverside County and not the city itself. It is located in Hemet East. The nearest international airports are the Palm Springs International Airport and Ontario International Airport.
The rail line to Hemet was operated from 1888 to 1987 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. You used to transport oranges from the region. In 1987, she was due to low demand for transport almost completely degraded. Their residues are used today for short-term storage of rail vehicles. Other parts of the remaining tracks to be removed, according to the city plans to make intersections between roads and the railway line plane.
Climate
History
Indians from the tribe of Cahuilla were the original inhabitants of the area in which Hemet is located today. In the early 18th century, the land was used by the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia for keeping livestock and henceforth called the area Rancho San Jacinto. 1842, the country fell into the possession of the settler José Antonio Estudillo. During the first major Southern California land boom, WF Whittier and EL 1887 founded the Lake Hemet Water Company Mayberry, the Hemet Land Company and the place Hemet. 1895 the construction of the dam was completed and the Lake Hemet thus completed as a reliable source of water for the San Jacinto Valley. For the development of local agriculture, the reservoir was very important. The Indians in the local area were resettled in an Indian reservation near San Jacinto.
In January 1910 Hemet was elevated to an independent City. Given a choice of 130 citizens and 33 against this act had voted. The opponents were landowners who feared higher taxes in Hemet. As a City, the city could be better protected and the infrastructure to be strengthened. Located on a railway line to Riverside, Hemet became a trading center for agricultural products such as citrus fruits, apricots, peaches, olives and walnuts from the San Jacinto Valley. Starting in 1936, took a long time a local agricultural fair held in Hemet, before it moved to Perris. During the Second World War was Hemet location of the Ryan School of Aeronautics, which trained 6,000 pilots from 1940 to 1944 for the United States Army Air Forces; her site was converted to today's Hemet - Ryan Airport later.
In the 1960s, large apartment buildings were built, mostly in the form of retirement communities with mobile homes, the reputation of a " retirement community for the working class " gave the city. In the 1980s, single-family homes and large shopping centers have been built on former fields increased. In the economic downturn of the early 1990s was followed by a ten-year stagnation of development. Beginning of the new millennium exploded the number of houses new buildings. Affordability of housing, proximity to Beschäftigunszentren as Corona, Riverside and San Bernardino, as well as the still rural character of Hemet made it an attractive city for working families who live in other parts of Southern California could not afford.
Timeline
The timeline is taken from the Hemet Library Heritage Room History Collection.
Population
Once known as " retiree stronghold " with an average age of over 64 years, this tends steadily with currently 39 years down.
Around 15 % of the inhabitants are of German descent, which is the highest proportion of the population of the descent seen. Around a quarter of the population is Mexican.
The unemployment rate is 12.9 %.
Policy
Hemet is part of the 23rd District in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Republican Bill Emmerson, and the 42nd and 67th District of the California State Assembly, represented by Republicans Brian nest Ande and Melissa Melendez. Furthermore belongs to Hemet California 36th congressional district, which a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 1 and is represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz.
Since 13 December 2011, Robert Youssef Mayor of Hemet.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- James Lafferty ( born 1985 ), actor
Associated with Hemet personalities
- Carl Barks, cartoonists and artists who lived from 1942 to 1969 in Hemet
- David Miscavige Scientologist who lives near Hemet
- Bill Murray, actor, owned a house in Hemet