Solana Beach
| Solana Beach, California | |||
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| City of Solana Beach | |||
Fletcher Cove Community Park Beach Access, California in June 2013
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 Location of Solana Beach within San Diego County, California. |
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 Solana Beach, California
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| Coordinates: 32°59′43″N 117°15′37″W / 32.99528°N 117.26028°WCoordinates: 32°59′43″N 117°15′37″W / 32.99528°N 117.26028°W | |||
| Country |  United States of America |
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 California
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 San Diego
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| Incorporated | July 1, 1986 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | David Zito | ||
| Area | |||
| • City | 3.624 sq mi (9.386 km2) | ||
| • Land | 3.520 sq mi (9.115 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.104 sq mi (0.270 km2) 2.88% | ||
| Elevation | 72 ft (22 m) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| • City | 12,867 | ||
| • Density | 3,600/sq mi (1,400/km2) | ||
| • Metro | SD-TJ: 5,105,768 | ||
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | ||
| ZIP code | 92075 | ||
| Area code(s) | 858 | ||
| FIPS code | 06-72506 | ||
| GNIS feature IDs | 1656633, 2411923 | ||
| Website | www |
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Solana Beach, officially the City of Solana Beach, is a coastal city in San Diego County, California. The population was 12,867 at the 2010 U.S. Census.
Solana Beach is located at 32°59′43″N 117°15′37″W / 32.99528°N 117.26028°W (32.992937,-117.271135).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2). 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (2.88%) is water.
Over 12,000 residents call this small beach community their home. The Pacific Ocean is to the west; the community of Cardiff-by-the-Sea to the north, and the City of Del Mar to the south. The unincorporated village of Rancho Santa Fe is located on the east side.
The area was first settled by the San Dieguitos, early Holocene inhabitants of the area. During the Spanish colonial era, trails heading north near Solana Beach crossed inland to avoid the marshes and inlets of the area. The George H. Jones family were the first settlers in the area now known as Solana Beach, arriving in 1886. Until 1923, the main area known as Solana Beach had been called Lockwood Mesa. When Lake Hodges Dam was built in 1917-18, the area encompassing Solana Beach began to develop rapidly. The creation of the 12,000-acre (49 km2) Santa Fe Irrigation District in 1918 ensured that the area from Rancho Santa Fe through Solana Beach would prosper and expand. The coastline from Solana Beach to Oceanside began to boom in the early 1920s. In 1922 Colonel Ed Fletcher, an early community leader and developer, purchased 140 acres (0.57 km2) at $20 per acre from farmer George H. Jones to develop the town of Solana Beach, with the help of his brother-in-law Eugene Batchelder. To provide access to the beach for the development, hydraulic water pressure was used to erode away tons of earth and create the Fletcher Cove entry and beach. This took one man three months with a fire hose, using water that was coming over the spillway at Lake Hodges Dam. The beach was opened with great fanfare including horse races on the beach on July 4, 1925.
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