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7 unusual facts about San Diego County


Bryan v. MacPherson

In the summer of 2005, 21-year old Carl Bryan planned to drive his brother from their cousin’s home in Ventura County back to his parent’s home in San Diego County.

KDTF-LD

It broadcasts a low-powered high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (virtual channel 36.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter southeast of Spring Valley.

Mount Miguel High School

Mount Miguel High School is a public, comprehensive high school located in Spring Valley, California and serves over 2,000 students in grades nine through twelve.

Mysterious Galaxy

Mysterious Galaxy is an independent bookstore located in San Diego, California.

Ogemdi Nwagbuo

Nwagbuo played high school football at Mount Miguel High School in Spring Valley, California, where he played only one season of varsity football.

Shirley Horton

Spring Valley.

Steele Canyon High School

Steele Canyon Charter High School is a public charter high school located in the San Diego East County community of Spring Valley, California.


Bell's Vireo

Populations were confined to eight counties south of Santa Barbara, with the majority of birds occurring in San Diego County.

California State Route 163

Following the Clairemont Mesa Blvd. interchange, it heads north to CA 52, where it forms one part of one of the biggest bottlenecks in San Diego County.

Discount Tire

The company's outlets are branded as America's Tire Company in Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, and California (except for San Diego County, where it is known as Southern California Discount Tire Company).

Ernest and Florence Bent Halstead House and Grounds

The Bent brothers' construction company built the Devil's Gate Dam in the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, and the Sweetwater Dam in San Diego County, California.

Fort Moore

It was never completed and was dedicated as Fort Moore on July 4, 1847, named after Captain Benjamin D. Moore, 1st Dragoons, one of 22 Americans killed in the Battle of San Pasqual in San Diego County, on December 6, 1846.

KSOQ-FM

In 2003, KFSD-FM was purchased by Jefferson Pilot Communications and turned into the simulcasting partner for their popular KSON, which faced geographical challenges to its signal's penetration into the North County area of San Diego County as well as into southern Riverside County, problems largely solved by the addition of KSOQ.

KVMD

It also reaches a good portion of Los Angeles, Orange and part of San Diego counties, but XETV-TV Tijuana/San Diego, which also broadcast digitally on channel 23, blocked KVMD's signal.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Matt Nokes

On February 19, 2000, Matt Nokes, who had just signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians, was forced to land a plane he was piloting on Interstate 15 in northern San Diego County.

Midge Costanza

Moving to San Diego County, California in 1990, Costanza coached candidates for office in public speaking, serving as the coordinator for Barbara Boxer's winning United States Senate in the Year of the Woman, 1992, and as manager for Kathleen Brown's failed gubernatorial candidacy in 1994.

Nicoleño

However, a study by University of California, Los Angeles linguist Pamela Munro focusing on four words and two songs spoken and sung by Juana Maria suggests Nicoleño was most similar to the related languages spoke by the Luiseños of Northern San Diego County and of the Juaneños near San Juan Capistrano.

Palm Spring, San Diego County, California

Palm Spring, a spring in Mesquite Oasis, a desert oasis amidst a mesquite thicket and a few palms, close to Carrizo Creek, within the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, California.

San Diego Jewish Film Festival

:The festival draws more than 20,000 ticket holders at five theatres throughout San Diego County: AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres, the UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center and UltraStar Poway Creekside Plaza 10, the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC, and on the campus of San Diego State University at the Not Quite Kosher Film Festival.

San Diego Symphony

The Symphony Towers (the second tallest building in San Diego County) building was built around Copley Hall in 1989.

San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area

San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area near Del Mar in San Diego County on California’s south coast.

Torrey Pines Golf Course

It is named after the Torrey Pine, a rare tree that grows in the wild only along this local stretch of the coastline in San Diego County and on Santa Rosa Island.

Tourmaline

The Empress Dowager Cixi of China loved pink tourmaline and bought large quantities for gemstones and carvings from the then new Himalaya Mine, located in San Diego County, California.

Victoria Pynchon

Pynchon, the daughter of the late superior court Judge Donald Pike, grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County and graduated in 1970 from Helix High School.


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4S Ranch, California

On July 31, 2012, Karl Strauss opened its first brewery in ten years and seventh in San Diego County.

Coleman University

1986 – the San Marcos campus was opened to serve growing populations in the northern part of San Diego County.

Craig Peyer

In 2004, Peyer was asked if he would contribute a sample of his DNA to a San Diego County program that was designed and initiated to use DNA samples to possibly exonerate wrongfully imprisoned persons, since at the time of his trial and conviction such testing was not yet available.

Helen K. Garber

She accompanied TV personality, Bill Boggs on adventures throughout San Diego County, while teaching him photo technique tips.

Jeff Church

Church and his wife Linda live with their four children – Nina, Joshua, Rachel and Jacob – in the San Diego County community of Rancho Santa Fe, CA.

Mount Soledad cross controversy

This veterans memorial designation was added by Congressmen Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R) and Duncan Hunter (R), both of whom represented portions of San Diego County, as a rider to a voluminous spending bill approved in November 2004 by the United States Congress.

Quercus engelmannii

The largest remaining stands of Engelmann Oaks are on the Santa Rosa Plateau, near Murrieta in Riverside County, and on Black Mountain near Ramona in San Diego County.

Ron Nehring

From 2004 through 2006, Nehring served as a Trustee for the Grossmont Union High School District, a large school district in east San Diego County with 11 high schools and an annual budget exceeding $170 million.

Scripps Mercy Hospital

Founded in 1890, it is the oldest hospital in San Diego County and has campuses in Chula Vista, California and Hillcrest, a neighborhood of San Diego.

Transportation in San Diego County

The Compass Card is the universal electronic fare system used in San Diego County.