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San Juan Bautista, California



 
 
San Juan Bautista (Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
: Saint John the Baptist
John the Baptist

John the Baptist was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River in expectation of a divine apocalypse that would restore occupied Israel....
) is a city in San Benito County
San Benito County, California

San Benito County is a county located in the California Coast Ranges Mountains of the U.S. state of California, south of San Jose, California. As of 2000 the population was 53,234....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 1,549 at the 2000 census. The city of San Juan Bautista was named after Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Juan Bautista

Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 in what is now the San Juan Bautista Historic District of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form....
. San Juan is primarily an agricultural town.

The Juan Bautista de Anza
Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto was a New Spain explorer and Spanish governors of New Mexico for the Spanish Empire....
 House, the General Juan Castro
Juan Castro

Juan Gabriel Castro is a Major League Baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. Castro bats and throws right-handed.Castro is a 1990 graduate of CBTIS 43 High School in Los Mochis....
 house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza
San Juan Bautista Plaza

San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, also known as San Juan Bautista State Historic Park is a historic district in San Juan Bautista, California that is a National Historic Landmark and a California state historic park....
 Historic District are National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
s. El Teatro Campesino is based in San Juan Bautista.

Juan Bautista is located at (36.844301, -121.537232), adjacent to the San Andreas Fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
.

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 kmē), all of it land.

f the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 1,549 people, 567 households, and 388 families residing in the city.






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San Juan Bautista (Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
: Saint John the Baptist
John the Baptist

John the Baptist was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River in expectation of a divine apocalypse that would restore occupied Israel....
) is a city in San Benito County
San Benito County, California

San Benito County is a county located in the California Coast Ranges Mountains of the U.S. state of California, south of San Jose, California. As of 2000 the population was 53,234....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The population was 1,549 at the 2000 census. The city of San Juan Bautista was named after Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Juan Bautista

Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 in what is now the San Juan Bautista Historic District of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form....
. San Juan is primarily an agricultural town.

The Juan Bautista de Anza
Juan Bautista de Anza

Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto was a New Spain explorer and Spanish governors of New Mexico for the Spanish Empire....
 House, the General Juan Castro
Juan Castro

Juan Gabriel Castro is a Major League Baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. Castro bats and throws right-handed.Castro is a 1990 graduate of CBTIS 43 High School in Los Mochis....
 house, and the San Juan Bautista Plaza
San Juan Bautista Plaza

San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, also known as San Juan Bautista State Historic Park is a historic district in San Juan Bautista, California that is a National Historic Landmark and a California state historic park....
 Historic District are National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
s. El Teatro Campesino is based in San Juan Bautista.

Geography

San Juan Bautista is located at (36.844301, -121.537232), adjacent to the San Andreas Fault
San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a geologic transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles through California in the United States. The fault's motion is dextral strike-slip ....
.

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 kmē), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 1,549 people, 567 households, and 388 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 2,187.0 people per square mile (842.4/kmē). There were 615 housing units at an average density of 868.3/sq mi (334.4/kmē). The racial makeup of the city was 62.30% White, 1.36% African American, 1.23% Native American, 2.65% Asian, 0.52% Pacific Islander, 25.24% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 6.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 47.32% of the population.

There were 567 households out of which 36.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.1% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.4% were non-families. 23.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3.24.

In the city the population was spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 98.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.5 males.

The median income
Income

Income, refers to consumption opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings received......
 for a household in the city was $43,355, and the median income for a family was $47,656. Males had a median income of $40,089 versus $27,063 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $19,882. About 12.7% of families and 15.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.2% of those under age 18 and 12.2% of those age 65 or over.

Politics

In the state legislature
California State Legislature

The California State Legislature is the State legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house, the California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house, the California State Senate, with 40 members....
 San Juan Bautista is located in the 12th Senate
California State Senate

The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. There are 40 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Sacramento, California....
 District, represented by Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham

Jeffrey "Jeff" Denham is a Republican Party politician serving his second term in the California State Senate. Denham represents the California's 12th State Senate district, which includes Madera County, California, Merced County, California, Monterey County, California, San Benito County, California and Stanislaus County, California counti...
, and in the 28th Assembly
California State Assembly

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000....
 District, represented by Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party . It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world....
 Anna M. Caballero
Anna M. Caballero

Anna M. Caballero is a Democratic Party member of the California California State Assembly who was elected to serve the 28th Assembly District in November 2006 and is running unopposed in 2008....
. Federally, San Juan Bautista is located in California's 17th congressional district
California's 17th congressional district

California's 17th congressional district covers all of Monterey County, California and San Benito County, California counties, as well as part of Santa Cruz County, California....
, which has a Cook PVI
Cook Partisan Voting Index

The Cook Partisan Voting Index , sometimes referred to as simply the Partisan Voting Index , is a measurement of how strongly an United States congressional district leans toward one political party compared to the nation as a whole....
 of D +17 and is represented by Democrat Sam Farr
Sam Farr

Samuel S. Farr , United States politician, has been a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the California's 17th congressional district of California....
.

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

Scenes for the Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
 film Vertigo
Vertigo (film)

Vertigo is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara Bel Geddes and Tom Helmore....
 were filmed around the historic plaza, including the historic mission, of San Juan Bautista in the fall of 1957.

See also

  • Mission San Juan Bautista
    Mission San Juan Bautista

    Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 in what is now the San Juan Bautista Historic District of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form....
  • Rowena Meeks Abdy
    Rowena Meeks Abdy

    Rowena Meeks Abdy was an Visual arts of the United States who flourished in Northern California in the early 20th century. Working in oil, watercolour and charcoal, she achieved prominence in the en plein air painting school and is held in several permanent collections of significant museums....
  • 2006 North American E. coli outbreak
    2006 North American E. coli outbreak

    The 2006 North American E. coli outbreak was an outbreak, in two principal phases, of foodborne Escherichia coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration....


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