Camarillo
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Looking southeast across Camarillo from the northwestern hills on a warm sunny day in late October
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| Motto: "Las Personas Son la Ciudad" ("The People Are the City") |
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 Location in Ventura County and the state of California |
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 Camarillo, California
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| Coordinates: 34°14′N 119°2′W / 34.233°N 119.033°WCoordinates: 34°14′N 119°2′W / 34.233°N 119.033°W | ||
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 United States
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 California
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| County | Ventura | |
| Rail station | 1898 | |
| Incorporated | October 22, 1964 | |
| Named for | Adolfo and Juan Camarillo | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Bill Little | |
| • State Senator | Hannah-Beth Jackson (D) | |
| • CA Assembly | Jacqui Irwin (D) | |
| • U. S. Rep. | Julia Brownley (D) | |
| • County supervisor | Kathy Long | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 19.543 sq mi (50.617 km2) | |
| • Land | 19.528 sq mi (50.577 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.015 sq mi (0.040 km2) 0.08% | |
| Elevation | 177 ft (54 m) | |
| Population (April 1, 2010) | ||
| • Total | 65,201 | |
| • Estimate (2013) | 66,086 | |
| • Density | 3,300/sq mi (1,300/km2) | |
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) | |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | |
| ZIP codes | 93010–93012 | |
| Area code | 805 | |
| FIPS code | 06-10046 | |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1652682, 2409966 | |
| Website | www |
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Camarillo (/ˌkæməˈriːoʊ/ KAM-ə-REE-oh) is a city in Ventura County in the U.S. state of California. The population was 65,201 at the 2010 census, up from 57,084 at the 2000 census. The Ventura Freeway (U.S. Route 101) is the city's primary thoroughfare. Camarillo is named for Adolfo and Juan Camarillo, two of the few Californios (pre-1848 California natives of Hispanic ancestry) to preserve the city's heritage after the arrival of Anglo settlers. The railroad coast route came through in 1898 and built a station here. Adolfo Camarillo eventually employed 700 workers growing mainly lima beans. Walnuts and citrus were also grown on the ranch. Adolfo bred Camarillo White Horses in the 1920s through the 1960s and was well known for riding them, dressed in colorful Spanish attire, in parades such as the Fiesta of Santa Barbara.
The city grew slowly prior to World War II but the war effort saw the construction of the Oxnard Army Air Field (later Oxnard Air Force Base in 1951, now Camarillo Airport) to the west of town. The community also grew as the new base along with nearby Naval Air Station Point Mugu and a Seabee base at Port Hueneme brought many workers and their families to the area. The grounds of Camarillo State Hospital, which opened in 1936 south of town, are now the campus of California State University, Channel Islands.
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