Santa Clara Valley
The Santa Clara Valley is a rural, mainly agricultural, valley in Ventura County. Santa Clara Valley was known as "the Valley of Heart's Delight" for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees and plants.Photo: Chevy111, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Fillmore and Santa Paula.
Fillmore
Photo: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fillmore is a small town in Ventura County in California. It is primarily an agricultural area, although it does have a historic downtown that dates back to the late 1800s when the Southern Pacific railroad built a line through the town.
Santa Paula
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santa Paula is a small town in Ventura County in California. The town was an early center of California's petroleum industry and today advertises itself as the "Citrus Capital of the World".
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fillmore and Western Railway and Fillmore Towne Theatre.
Fillmore and Western Railway
Museum
Photo: Yellowute, Public domain.
The Fillmore and Western Railway was a heritage railway which operated on track owned by the Ventura County Transportation Commission. Visitors to Fillmore would see filming activity as well as sets and support equipment at the company's rail yard and along the tracks between Santa Paula and Piru.
Fillmore Towne Theatre
Theater building
Fillmore Towne Theatre is a former vaudeville and movie theater in Fillmore, California and is a landmark in downtown. Built in 1916, the single-screen theater showed silent films.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bardsdale and Buckhorn.
Bardsdale
Hamlet
Bardsdale is a rural unincorporated community and populated place in Ventura County, California. It is located in the orange blossom and agricultural belt of the Santa Clara River Valley, south of the Santa Clara River and on the north slope of South Mountain.
Buckhorn
Hamlet
Buckhorn is a populated place name along State Route 126 in a rural unincorporated area of Ventura County, California, United States. Buckhorn is about 2 miles outside the town of Piru but is within the eponymous census-designated place.
Santa Clara Valley
- Type: valley
- Description: valley in Ventura County, California, USA
- Also known as: “Santa Clara River Valley”
- Location: Ventura County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.3831° or 34° 22′ 59″ northLongitude
-118.8728° or 118° 52′ 22″ westOpen location code
856394MG+6VWikidata ID
Q7419332
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Santa Clara Valley” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وادي نهر سانتا كلارا”
- Chinese: “圣克拉拉河谷”
- Chinese: “聖克拉拉河谷”
- Spanish: “Santa Clara Valley”
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