Voters also voted whether to call this newly incorporated city ‘Santa Susana’ or ‘Simi Valley.’ The name Simi Valley garnered 2,000 more votes than Santa Susana. [52] It is drained by the Calleguas Creek and also its principal tributary, Conejo Creek. At its height, Countrywide had approximately 10,000 employees in the city. 979 Rancho Simi – This is the site of the headquarters of the Spanish Rancho San José de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia y Simí. Agriculture and ranching dominated the landscape through the 1950s. [71] In the 2004 presidential election George W. Bush (R) won nearly 61% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while John Kerry (D) won 38% of the vote. In 2005, the PBS children's television series. Republican Kieth Mashburn has been the incumbent mayor since 2018. [20][21][22] The name could have derived from strands of mist from coastal fog that move into the Oxnard Plain and wind their way up the Calleguas Creek and the Arroyo Las Posas into Simi Valley. An investor group, the California Mutual Benefit Colony of Chicago, purchased land and laid out a townsite (located between First and Fifth Streets and from Los Angeles south to Ventura Ave), named it ‘Simiopolis’ and shipped twelve pre-cut, partially assembled houses from a lumberyard in Chicago via rail to Saticoy, then brought by wagon to Simi. The pioneers arrived in the late 1860s – 1870s...and ever since, this has been ‘The Valley of Simi.’ BUT not all the communities in the valley were known as ‘Simi.’ There was the township of Simi (known as ‘Simiopolis’ for about a six month period in 1888, but then the name reverted to Simi). Basic Books: U.S. Department of Agriculture (C. Robert Elford). An aspect of Simi Valley's location, situated beside the Simi Hills, is that it lies in a high-risk area for the wildfires that sweep through Southern California's mountain ranges every few years. With a population of 125,851 people and 26 constituent neighborhoods, Simi Valley is the 45th largest community in California. 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Winter months tend to be wetter than summer months. In the extreme east is Rocky Peak, one of Santa Susana Mountains' highest peaks, which is a dividing line between Ventura County to the west and Los Angeles County to the east. José de la Guerra y Noriega, a Captain of the Santa Barbara Presidio, who had begun to acquire large amounts of land in California to raise cattle, purchased Rancho Simí from the Pico family in 1842. The July high is approximately 96 °F (36 °C). On average, there are 277 sunny days in Simi Valley per year. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.2 sq mi (109.4 km2), comprising 41.5 sq mi (107.4 km2) of land and 0.77 sq mi (2.0 km2), or 1.81%, of it is water. The VW Design Center California or DCC, moved to Santa Monica, California in the spring of 2006. The city manager appoints the various department heads for the city, and acts as the city clerk and city treasurer. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males. The city of Simi Valley is surrounded by the Santa Susana Mountain range and the Simi Hills, west of the San Fernando Valley, and northeast of the Conejo Valley. The lots, however, were very small (30 x 50 feet), and the Mortimers did not take the mountainous nature of the land into account, so quite often the lots were not buildable. There are other explanations about the name Simi, but this one was given to me by my brother who worked over 40 years for the Smithsonian Institution and it seems most plausible to me". N/A% of the population of Simi Valley, CA has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans. El Rancho Simí was divided into ranches and farms by that corporation, and advertised for sale to midwestern and New England states. Race and Hispanic origin in Simi Valley as a percentage of the total population, expressed as percentage point difference from California. Bush, is housed and available for tours. Simi Valley Station is used by Amtrak and Metrolink on the railroad's Ventura County Line, after the line was purchased from Southern Pacific.