Solana Beach, CA
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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
Location in the United States
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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 | ||
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| • Mayor | David Zito | ||
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| • City | 3.62 sq mi (9.39 km2) | ||
| • Land | 3.52 sq mi (9.12 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.10 sq mi (0.27 km2) 2.88% | ||
| Elevation | 72 ft (22 m) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| • City | 12,867 | ||
| • Estimate (2016) | 13,449 | ||
| • Density | 3,820.74/sq mi (1,475.40/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 is a coastal city in San Diego County, California. The population was 12,867 at the 2010 U.S. Census.
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 1917-1918, 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.
The community grew slowly, but steadily throughout the rest of the century, with particular booms occurring in the decade after World War II and a real estate boom in the last quarter of the 20th century. In 1986 the community officially incorporated as the city of Solana Beach. That year, the city hosted the final funeral services for Desi Arnaz, who had died in Del Mar. Arnaz's funeral was held at St. James Roman Catholic Church, one of two Catholic churches in the city and part of the Diocese of San Diego.
The city received national news in 2003 upon becoming the first city in the Continental United States to enact a smoking ban on its public beaches, a trend which has continued as many other coastal Californian towns have followed suit in banning smoking on their beaches. Solana Beach was the last coastal community in North San Diego County to ban alcohol on the beach, doing so for at least a year in an action unanimously approved by the City Council.
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