Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, located 35 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles.
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33 Facts About Huntington Beach
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Swells generated predominantly from the North Pacific in winter and from a combination of Southern Hemisphere storms and hurricanes in the summer focus on Huntington Beach, creating consistent surf all year long, hence the nickname "Surf City".
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Original Huntington Beach Pier was built in 1904 and was originally a 1,000-foot-long timber structure.
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Huntington Beach was incorporated on February 17,1909, during the tenure of its first mayor, Ed Manning.
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The Huntington Beach Company is still a major land-owner in the city, and still owns most of the local mineral rights.
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Huntington Beach was primarily agricultural in its early years with crops such as lima beans, asparagus, peppers, celery and sugar beets.
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Bolsa Chica State Huntington Beach is actually a sand bar fronting the Bolsa Bay and Bolsa Chica State Ecological Reserve.
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Huntington Beach sits above a large natural fault structure containing a critical supply of natural oil.
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Huntington Beach has an off-shore oil terminus for the tankers that support the Alaska Pipeline.
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Huntington Beach has the Gothard–Talbert terminus for the Orange County portion of the pipeline running from the Chevron El Segundo refinery.
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Huntington State Beach is home to a number of species of birds, including gulls, willet, long-billed fletcher, elegant teens and reddish egret, which are rare on the West Coast, according to Ben Smith, a biologist and environmental consultant for the county.
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Huntington Beach contains a small industrial district in its northwest corner, near the borders with Westminster and Seal Beach.
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Huntington Beach contains a major installation of Boeing, formerly McDonnell-Douglas.
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Huntington Beach is home to the Newland House Museum, Huntington Beach's oldest home built in 1898.
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Huntington Beach is a stop on the AVP beach volleyball tour.
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Huntington Beach is the site of the world surfing championships, held annually in the summer.
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Apart from sponsored surf events, Huntington Beach has some of the best surf breaks in the State of California and that of the United States.
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Huntington Beach has four different facing beaches: Northwest, West, Southwest, and South.
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Bolsa Chica State Huntington Beach is operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and the Bolsa Chica State Huntington Beach Lifeguards.
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Huntington Beach is very restricted and often is submerged with high tides.
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Just north and south of the Huntington Beach Pier are some well defined sandbars that shift throughout the year with the different swells.
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South Huntington Beach, known as Huntington State Beach, is where all the south swells impact the coastline.
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Huntington Beach is a popular destination for kite surfing, and this sport can be viewed on the beach northwest of the pier.
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The Huntington Beach Club, formerly known as Seacliff Country Club, is a private country club which among other amenities includes an 6,935-yard 18-hole golf course.
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Huntington Beach has a large central park, known as Huntington Central Park.
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Some popular events that take place at Dog Huntington Beach are Surf City Surf Dog and So Cal Corgi Nation Huntington Beach Days.
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Huntington Beach is the home of Golden West College, which offers two-year associates of arts degrees and transfer programs to four-year universities.
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Huntington Beach is in the Huntington Beach Union High School District, which includes:.
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Huntington Beach has 1,121 lane miles of public streets and includes facilities managed by Caltrans which supports a balanced transportation system use of all types of vehicular, transit, bicycle and pedestrian activity.
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Huntington Beach averaged fully two cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.
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Since it is a seaside city, Huntington Beach has had tsunami warnings, storm surge, sewage spills, tornadoes and waterspouts.
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Huntington Beach has the following sister city relationships, according to the Huntington Beach Sister City Association:.
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