Ballard
Ballard is an unincorporated community in Santa Barbara County, California. Ballard is the smallest and oldest community in the Santa Ynez Valley. The nearest city is Solvang.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 467 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Alamo Pintado”, “Ballard, CA”, and “Ballard, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital.
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital
Hospital
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital is a hospital in the city of Solvang, California. It is owned and operated by Cottage Health. The hospital was featured briefly in a scene of the 2004 film Sideways. Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital is situated 2½ miles south of Ballard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Olivos and Santa Ynez.
Los Olivos
Photo: Antandrus, Public domain.
Los Olivos is a small community in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County in Southern California. The area is home to many highly-rated wineries, and with many well-maintained, low-traffic rural roads, also has some of the best bicycling routes in the region.
Santa Ynez
Photo: Thomas Camargo, CC BY 3.0.
Santa Ynez is a small community in the Santa Ynez Valley winery region of Santa Barbara County in Southern California. It's in a valley of small towns, rolling hills, majestic oaks and friendly people.
Solvang
Photo: Annette Teng, CC BY 3.0.
Solvang is in the Santa Ynez Valley of Santa Barbara County in Southern California. The city is Danish-themed as if it were the Danishland section of Disneyland, since it was founded by Danish immigrants and quite a few Danish descendants live here.
Ballard
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.63611° or 34° 38′ 10″ northLongitude
-120.11304° or 120° 6′ 47″ westPopulation
467Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)United Nations Location Code
US QLLOpen location code
846XJVPP+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 150959724OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Ballard” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ballard”
- Cebuano: “Ballard”
- Chechen: “Баллерд”
- Chinese: “巴拉德”
- Croatian: “Ballard, Kalifornija”
- Croatian: “Ballard”
- Dutch: “Ballard”
- French: “Ballard”
- German: “Ballard”
- Gilaki: “بالارد”
- Irish: “Ballard”
- Italian: “Ballard”
- Ladin: “Ballard”
- Luxembourgish: “Ballard”
- Malagasy: “Ballard, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Ballard”
- Persian: “بالارد، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “بالارد”
- Polish: “Ballard”
- Serbian: “Балард”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ballard, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ballard”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالارد، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Ballard (California)”
- Spanish: “Ballard”
- Swedish: “Ballard, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Ballard”
- Tatar: “Баллерд”
- Turkish: “Ballard, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Ballard”
- Ukrainian: “Баллерд”
- Volapük: “Ballard”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery and Rideau Vineyard.
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