California bomb squad teams captured, removed and destroyed a large military ordnance from a Santa Barbara County's downtown area at about 1:30 Thursday morning.

The New York Daily News reported that the potentially explosive ordnance was discovered in Solvang's business district this week, prompting an evacuation order from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

Once the sheriff's bomb squad, along with Vandenberg's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, took the artillery to a remote location for proper removal, the area was deemed safe and the order was lifted.

Between 500 and 700 homes and businesses in the town of Solvang, located about 130 miles outside of Los Angeles, were instructed to vacate on Wednesday at about 3:30 p.m., when authorities first received notice of the ordnance.

Some people who were staying in hotels in the area were also told to leave the immediate area. Displaced citizens received help from an American Red Cross location set up nearby.

No one was injured, local station KEYT reported. It wasn't clear whether the ordnance held live ammunition. It appeared that the ordnance was old, and had fired at one point in the past, but an active fuse system could have made the device unstable, and able to wreak havoc if it detonated.

Officials are still not sure how the ordnance, which measured about 18 inches long and nearly four inches in diameter, ended up in Solvang.

The EOD team and bomb squad told KEYT that the device was a 105 millimeter ammunition shell.

Ordnances shouldn't be used by the public, officials said, but consumers can buy them online.

Anyone with information about this military ordnance, or others, is encouraged to get in touch with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office. Call officials at (805) 681-4100.