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Lake Elsinore is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. As of
2007, the population was estimated to be 47,634 according to California
Department of Finance. It is the home of the Lake Elsinore Storm baseball club
of the California League who play at the Lake Elsinore Diamond.
The city is rapidly growing, having added 6,000 new residents per year since
2001. Its relatively inexpensive land prices, proximity to Orange County, and
abundance of recreational opportunities has attracted many families to the
areas' many new subdivisions.
Like many other large geographical cities, Lake Elsinore is divided into several
smaller communities, such as: Downtown, Canyon Hills, North Lake Elsinore (Northshore),
Tuscany Hills, Rosetta Canyon (Ramsgate), NorthPeak, Countryclub Heights,
Alberhill (Ranch), Eastlake (Summerly), La Laguna Estates and its general area
also includes portions of Wildomar, Cleveland Ridge, Lakeland Village, Sedco
Hills, Canyon Lake, Horsethief Canyon and the Temescal Valley. It can take as
much as 20 minutes to drive from one side of the city limits to another.
Lake Elsinore Diamond served as a site for the Single A baseball team of The
Lake Elsinore Storms, which is a farm team for the San Diego Padres and used to
be the farm team for the Anaheim Angles. Also, semi-pro football team, the
Riverside-Elsinore Dolphins of the Western States Football League in 1996-98.
The stadium now hosts the Banning-Elsinore Eagles of the California Football
Association, a minor American football league. It may host the Murrieta Bandits,
a professional soccer team in 2007, despite the team's office is based in
Murrieta. At this time, neither football or soccer is played at the "Storms
Stadium". However, special events such as concerts with stars such as Willie
Nelson have appeared there.
On a 1992 Sightings segment, a local citizen group of ten members from Lake
Elsinore claimed to share or knew each other in past lives in 1863 Clarksburg,
West Virginia. The paranormal television series claimed the small group
experienced a rare phenomena called mass reincarnation. The story was covered on
a hard-cover novel From Clarksburg to Lake Elsinore: A Profile on Reincarnation
published in 1988, but since was out-of-print.[citation needed]
One of the first outlet shopping malls in California was established in
northwestern Lake Elsinore in the late 1990s on Collier Road at Nichols Road,
just off Interstate 15;the mall now has its own automobile dealership(actually a
satellite location for Murrieta Valley Kia).
The City's Visitors Bureau has also been making efforts to expand tourism in the
area, however a lack of lodging prevents the city from doing so on a wide scale.
Prior to 2006 there were no brand-name Hotels, and even today only one exists in
the city limits, The Quality Inn, although steps are being taken to attract
hotel chains (Both Best Western and Holiday Inn have announced they are building
new hotels in the city).
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department serves the entire Lake Elsinore Valley
(including the nearby suburbs of Wildomar, Lakeland Village and Sedco Hills)
from its regional station in downtown Lake Elsinore (the city once had its own
police department, but it was disbanded in 1979 for budgetary reasons).
The City of Lake Elsinore contracts for fire protection and emergency medical
services(EMS) with the Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative
agreement with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection(Cal
Fire). The City of Lake Elsinore currently has 3 paramedic engines operating out
of it's 3 stations and a 4th station currently under construction in Rosetta
Canyon. The fire department also maintains a volunteer company which covers a
squad out of Station 10. The volunteers also cover reserve engines when
available.
Fire station 10 is located downtown next to the post office which also has 2 Cal
Fire engines for supplemental protection. Fire station 85 is located at McVicker
Park and fire station 94 is located on the east side of the city off of Railroad
Canyon Road. Rosetta Canyon station 97 is scheduled to open in 2008 with a
paramedic engine and a ladder truck company sometime in 2009.