18 Facts About Thousand Oaks

1. Thousand Oaks is changing the game in IoT, and we want everyone at CES to join us and help spread the seed that is Oaks.

2. Thousand Oaks is proud to be the home of the 2004 Little League National Championship team.

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

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

5. Thousand Oaks lies in the heart of the Conejo Valley, with the city of Los Angeles to the east and the city of Ventura to the west.

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. City of Thousand Oaks was incorporated on October 7, 1964, the first incorporated city in the Conejo Valley.

14. 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.

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

16. 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.

17. Thousand Oaks is 55 square miles, which, for comparison, is 20 percent larger than San Francisco.

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