Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Santa Barbara, CA

The Santa Barbara coast was the homeland of the Chumash people for thousands of years before Europeans arrived, and explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo first sailed past the area in 1542.

Spain built a presidio, or military fort, at Santa Barbara in 1782, anchoring Spanish control of this stretch of the California coast.

Mission Santa Barbara was founded in 1786 by Father Fermin Lasuen as the tenth of California's Spanish missions, and it is still known as the 'Queen of the Missions.'

The 2020 census counted 88,665 residents in Santa Barbara, almost unchanged from the 88,410 counted a decade earlier.

Santa Barbara has about 36,300 households, averaging roughly 2.4 people per household.

About one in five Santa Barbara residents, 19.9 percent, was born outside the United States.

A devastating earthquake in 1925 leveled much of downtown Santa Barbara, and the city rebuilt itself in the unified Spanish Colonial Revival style of white stucco walls and red-tile roofs that defines it today.

Santa Barbara's mild Mediterranean climate and dramatic setting between the mountains and the sea have made tourism a cornerstone of the city's economy.

The city is a noted cultural hub, home to numerous art galleries and theaters as well as the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

The University of California, Santa Barbara, which became part of the University of California system in 1944, draws thousands of students to its campus just west of the city near Goleta.