Editing Encinitas, California (section)

== History ==
The first people to settle in Encinitas were the [[Kumeyaay]]. [[Gaspar de Portolá]], governor of [[Baja California]], visited the area in 1769 during the [[Portolá expedition]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Carrico |first=Richard L. |date=July 1, 1977 |title=Portola's 1769 Expedition and Coastal Native Villages of San Diego County |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68k9x90h |journal=The Journal of California Anthropology |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1}}</ref> and met residents from the nearby Kumeyaay village of Jeyal{{r|JSDH}} (or Heyal), near the [[San Elijo Lagoon]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kumeyaay Sense of the Land and Landscape |url=http://viejasbandofkumeyaay.org/viejas-community/kumeyaay-history/kumeyaay-sense-of-the-land/ |access-date=August 27, 2020 |website=Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Portolá expedition|Portolá]] named the valley Los Encinos for the [[oak]] forest along [[El Camino Real (California)|El Camino Real]], where there was also a village that was likely known as ''Hakutl'' in New Encinitas.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="JSDH">{{Cite web |title=Sociopolitical Aspects of the 1775 Revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala |url=https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1997/july/missionrevoltimages/ |access-date=August 29, 2020 |publisher=San Diego History Center |work=The Journal of San Diego History |date=Summer 1997 |volume=43 |number= 3|language=en-US}}</ref>

After [[Mexican War of Independence|Mexican Independence]], land was granted to Andrés Ybarra in 1842 to build [[Rancho Las Encinitas]] in what is now [[Olivenhain, Encinitas, California|Olivenhain]] and New Encinitas, from which Encinitas got its namesake. ''Encinitas'' is a Spanish name meaning "little oaks".<ref>{{cite book |author=Gannett, Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n118 119]}}</ref>

The town of Old Encinitas was formed in 1881 by [[Jabez Pitcher]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kamin |first=Debra |date=February 18, 2020 |title=Encinitas, Calif.: A Beach Town Where Prices Rise With the Tide |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/realestate/encinitas-calif-a-beach-town-where-prices-rise-with-the-tide.html |access-date=June 12, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The city was incorporated by 69.3% of the voters in 1986 from the communities of historic Encinitas, New Encinitas (Village Park, etc.), [[Leucadia, Encinitas, California|Leucadia]], [[Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Encinitas, California|Cardiff-by-the-Sea]], and Olivenhain.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://patch.com/california/encinitas/bp--tale-of-incorporation-how-encinitas-became-an-entbb68f73768 |title=Tale of Incorporation: How Encinitas Became an Entity Onto Itself 25 Years Ago |last=Andreen |first=Mike |date=August 16, 2011 |work=Encinitas Patch |access-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Legendary Locals of Encinitas |year=2012 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781467100090 |page=35 }}<!--|access-date=August 19, 2012--></ref>