Central Coast · CA
Lompoc
Flower fields, a restored mission and rocket launches.
- Population
- 44,444 (2020 census)
- Mission founded
- 1787
- Honda Point
- 1923
Then
- 1787
Mission La Purísima Concepción is founded. After an 1812 earthquake it moves about a mile, and the CCC restores it in the 1930s.
- 1888
Lompoc incorporates after the founding of a temperance colony.
- 1893
A diatomite mine opens nearby, now called the world's largest marine diatomite mine.
- 1923
Nine Navy destroyers run aground just off the coast at Honda Point, killing 23.
- 1958
Camp Cooke becomes a missile base, later Vandenberg.
Now
Seed flowers and vegetables still anchor the "City of Arts and Flowers." The tide stations here are at Point Arguello and an offshore oil platform.
2 tide stations around Lompoc
- Point Arguello11.6 mi
- Oil Platform Harvest17.3 mi