33 Facts About Thousand Oaks

Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County, California, United States.

Thousand Oaks was incorporated in 1964, but has since expanded to the west and east.

From 1804 to 1848, Thousand Oaks was part of Alta California, which originally was a Spanish polity in North America.

Thousand Oaks bought 2,259 acres of land here in 1874, land which stretched from Old Town Thousand Oaks and into today's Newbury Park.

Thousand Oaks later established the valley's first post office in 1875: Newbury Park Post Office.

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Thousand Oaks was home to a Norwegian community in the late 1890s and early 1900s, known as Norwegian Colony.

Thousand Oaks Boulevard was featured in the "Walls of Jericho" scenes in the film It Happened One Night.

Thousand Oaks worked for the Universal film studio, and decided to create his own film industry zoo after the closure of Universal Zoo in the mid-1920s.

Thousand Oaks established Goebel's Lion Farm in 1926, situated where Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is located today.

Thousand Oaks is encouraging mixed-use retail and housing development along the downtown portion of Thousand Oaks Boulevard.

City of Thousand Oaks is situated in the Conejo Valley in southeastern Ventura County, halfway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, and 12 miles east of the Pacific Ocean.

Thousand Oaks is within the Greater Los Angeles Area and is 38 miles west of Los Angeles.

Thousand Oaks has grown due to the incorporation of neighboring cities.

Conejo Mountain and Conejo Grade are found in westernmost Newbury Park, while the southernmost parts of Thousand Oaks are made up of Russell Valley, Hidden Valley and the steep rugged slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

Thousand Oaks is located adjacent to Simi Valley, often nicknamed "Reagan Country", where the former president is buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library near the Thousand Oaks border.

On September 22,2018, the City of Thousand Oaks hosted its first, intersectional LGBTQ+ event outside of the Mary and Richard Carpenter Civic Arts Plaza Park.

Thousand Oaks is one of the safest cities in America, according to consistent FBI reporting.

In October 2013, Thousand Oaks was ranked the fourth safest city with a population over 100,000 in America, according to an annual report by the FBI.

Thousand Oaks Niche ranked Thousand Oaks as America's second-safest city in 2016.

Thousand Oaks is served by the Conejo Valley Unified School District.

The Cowboys Clubhouse in Thousand Oaks still stands across from the complex, and is currently a family residence.

Thousand Oaks is home to a few radio station transmitter sites as well including KCLU-FM, an NPR radio station based at California Lutheran University.

Thousand Oaks TV is a 24-hour cable TV station established by the city in 1987.

Thousand Oaks Journal was another early local newspaper in the 1960s.

Thousand Oaks is served by Thousand Oaks Transit, which provides public transportation in the form of shuttles and buses.

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Thousand Oaks offers public transportation that runs to both airports, via the VISTA, Metro, and LADOT bus lines.

Thousand Oaks' fauna includes mammals such as mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, bears, grey fox and mule deer, as well as smaller mammals as the striped and spotted skunk, California raccoon, Virginia opossum, Audubon's cottontail, long-tailed weasel, Botta's pocket gopher, ring-tailed cat, California vole, western brush rabbit, western gray squirrel, and several species of rats and mice, where the most common are deer mouse and Merriam's kangaroo rat.

Some amphibians and reptiles found in Thousand Oaks include lizards such as side-blotched lizards, southern alligator lizards and western fence lizards, as well as the southwestern pond turtle and crawdads, and numerous species of snake, including southern Pacific rattlesnakes, San Diego gopher snakes, striped racers, California kingsnakes, common kingsnakes, ringneck snakes, and western aquatic garter snakes.

Some amphibians found in Thousand Oaks include ensatina, slender salamander, western toad, American bullfrog, California toad, Pacific tree frog, and the California red-legged frog.

Raptor population densities in the Conejo Valley, which therefore has some of the highest quantities of raptors in the US Some of the raptors found in the City of Thousand Oaks include the golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, Cooper's hawk, marsh hawk, sharp-shinned hawk, red-shouldered hawk, ferruginous hawk, pigeon hawk, prairie falcon, turkey vulture, barn owl, great horned owl, screech owl, American kestrel, and the white-tailed kite.

Thousand Oaks is home to over 100 species of plants, while 400 species can be found within 100 sq.

Thousand Oaks has the designation "Tree City USA" and has received the Trail Town USA Hall of Fame award.

Thousand Oaks is home to endemic species found nowhere else on Earth.