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Huasna (Chumash: Awasna)[2] is an unincorporated community in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
Huasna, California | |
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  Huasna, California  Huasna, California | |
| Coordinates: 35°07′22″N 120°23′37″W / 35.12278°N 120.39361°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Luis Obispo |
| Elevation | 797 ft (243 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| Area code | 805 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1660774[1] |
Huasna is located on the western slope of the southern Santa Lucia Range. Huasna is due east of Arroyo Grande. The name Huasna derives from wasna,[3] a Chumash village in the vicinity of "the path that climbs up to the sky."[4] According to Chumash narratives, this path is located somewhere in the Huasna region, as recounted in the Story of Anucwa in which sisters journey there.[4] Huasna was later incorporated into Rancho Huasna, granted to Isaac J. Sparks by Governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1843. An adobe ranch house and schoolhouse once stood in the community.[5] The Huasna area was the site of considerable oil exploration in the 1950s,[6] but today the Huasna area is mostly farmland.
The Huasna River runs through the community.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Chumash placenames
- ^ Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning (3d ed.). Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-520-21271-8.
- ^ a b Blackburn, Ed., Thomas C. (1975). December's Child, a Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, Ltd. p. 235. ISBN 0-520-04088-0.
- ^ "South County Historical Society".
- ^ Kegley, Howard (August 6, 1955). "Drilling Bits and Crude Facts--Huasna Valley Field Sought". Oxnard Press-Courier. Oxnard, CA. p. 5. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
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