Somis is an unincorporated community established in 1892 by Thomas Bard and D.T. Perkins on a portion of the Mexican land grant, Rancho Las Posas. The name Somis is believed to have been derived from "water of the scrub oak," a Chumash placename referring to the presence of water Somis is in the Las Posas Valley on the south bank of Fox Barranca, just west of Arroyo Las Posas.

The Ventura County is a quaint little town surrounded by rural areas with many farms on the adjacent Oxnard Plain offering plentiful crops and features many custom homes on large lots.

For school information click this link for Somis Unified School District: https://somisusd.org