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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills got its name in 1927, when residents needing a one-word post office name picked a misspelling of Pierre Agoure, a Basque settler who arrived in 1871.
• AlhambraAlhambra High School, the city's first public high school, opened in 1898, five years before Alhambra incorporated.
• ArcadiaThe Mexican land grant for Rancho Santa Anita, the land Arcadia grew from, went to Hugo Reid and his Tongva wife, Victoria, in 1845.
• Beverly GroveThe name Beverly Grove came into use only in 2006, for a small residential area proposed for an anti-mansionization ordinance.
• BeverlywoodBy 2000, 55 percent of Beverlywood residents aged 25 and over held a four-year degree, a high share for both the city and the county.
• BradburyBradbury holds two gated areas, Bradbury Estates with 5-acre minimum lots and Woodlyn Lane with 2-acre minimums, and shares the 91008 ZIP code with Duarte.
• BurbankBurbank takes its name from David Burbank, who started a sheep ranch on the land in 1867.
• Canoga ParkIn 1869 Alfred Workman took over a 13,000-acre wheat farm on the land that became Canoga Park.
• CarthayCarthay is split among three preservation overlay zones, Carthay Circle, South Carthay and Carthay Square, and has one school, Carthay Center Elementary on West Olympic Boulevard.
• Century CityCentury City fills 176 acres that cowboy actor Tom Mix once used as a ranch.
• ChatsworthUpward of 2,000 film and television shoots used Chatsworth's Iverson Movie Ranch, a spread of about 500 acres.
• Cheviot HillsFounded in 1924 between the MGM and Fox lots, Cheviot Hills passed in 1928 to Ole Hanson and the Frank Meline Company, which kept building it out.
• Culver CityThomas Ince built Culver City's first film studio in 1918, Hal Roach followed in 1919, and MGM took over the Triangle lot in 1924.
• Del ReyLAFD Station 67 on Playa Vista Drive sits near Del Rey, and fire stations in Venice and Mar Vista cover other parts of the neighborhood.
• Echo ParkEcho Park Lake was drained in the summer of 2011 for a rehabilitation project and reopened on June 5, 2013.
• El SegundoEl Segundo, Spanish for "the second," is named for the second Standard Oil refinery on the West Coast, built after the company bought 840 acres in 1911.
• EncinoThe Encino Velodrome has offered an outdoor oval bicycle racing track since 1961.
• FairfaxThe Grove, a shopping and entertainment center, opened in 2002 next to the Fairfax District's Farmers Market.
• GlendaleGlendale sits about 10 miles north of downtown Los Angeles on part of the Rancho San Rafael, granted to José María Verdugo in 1784.
• Granada HillsGranada Hills Little League won the Little League World Championship in 1963.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa Beach runs only about 15 blocks from east to west and 40 from north to south, with Pacific Coast Highway down its middle.
• Hidden HillsBehind its gates Hidden Hills covers about 1.7 square miles, and at the 2020 census 536 of its 593 occupied homes belonged to the people living in them.
• HollywoodHarvey Wilcox filed a deed and parcel map under the name Hollywood in August 1887, a name his wife had picked.
• Hollywood / Central LAIn 2000 roughly four in five Central Los Angeles residents rented their homes, with Westlake the most renter-heavy neighborhood and Hollywood Hills West the least.
• Hollywood HillsFive schools sit inside the Hollywood Hills boundaries, among them Immaculate Heart's high and middle school on Franklin Avenue.
• Hollywood Hills WestOwners hold 63.6 percent of the housing in Hollywood Hills West, and in 2000 only 178 of its families, 5.8 percent, were headed by a single parent.
• KoreatownAfter the 1965 immigration act helped the community grow, Koreatown residents won the first Koreatown sign, put up in 1982.
• La Cañada FlintridgeElevations inside the city run from about 970 feet below Devil's Gate Dam to some 2,400 feet in the highest neighborhood, and the limits climb to 3,440 feet on Mount Lukens Road.
• Lake BalboaLAFD Station 100, West Van Nuys/Lake Balboa, serves the neighborhood, and the Van Nuys Post Office stands on Sherman Way inside Lake Balboa.
• Larchmont VillageLarchmont was called Glenwood until 1912, when it took a new name most likely borrowed from Larchmont, New York.
• Laurel CanyonThe Los Angeles Times announced on August 14, 1908, that a Lookout Mountain Inn would rise at the top of Lookout Mountain and Sunset Plaza roads above Laurel Canyon.
• Los FelizGriffith J. Griffith acquired 4,071 acres of Rancho Los Feliz in 1882 and left his Los Feliz acreage to the city for additions to Griffith Park.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsSnow is rare in the Santa Monica Mountains but not unknown, dusting Boney Peak in 2005 and 2008 and piling up in low passes in February 2019.
• Mar VistaLand bought in 1913 for a Mar Vista tract to be called Kensington Green held a walnut orchard and one of the oldest eucalyptus groves in Los Angeles.
• Marina del ReyIn 1902 Moses Sherman bought 1,000 acres around the Ballona lagoon and Port Ballona under the name Beach Land Company.
• Mid-WilshireBuilding along the Park Mile stretch of Mid-Wilshire has been governed since 1979 by the city's Park Mile Ordinance.
• Miracle MileThe Miracle Mile name first showed up in local papers on January 27, 1929, and its buildings were meant to be taken in at 30 miles an hour rather than on foot.
• MonroviaLucky Baldwin took over Rancho Santa Anita, which held most of present-day Monrovia west of Norumbega Drive, on April 8, 1875.
• Mount OlympusAn 1888 account placed Mount Olympus three miles west of Cahuenga Pass at the head of Laurel Canyon.
• Nichols CanyonNichols Canyon takes its name from John Gregg Nichols Jr., reputed to be the first child of American parents born in Los Angeles, in 1851.
• North HollywoodNorth Hollywood was first called Toluca, became Lankershim in 1896 and took its present name in 1927.
• NorthridgeSettled as Zelzah in 1908 and renamed North Los Angeles in 1929, the community became Northridge Village in 1938 at the urging of Carl S. Dentzel.
• PalmsEarly Palms settlers held Sunday school in the old La Ballona School and in fall 1883 organized a United Brethren church with 11 members.
• Pico-RobertsonThe 2000 census found 18,019 people living in Pico-Robertson's 1.03 square miles.
• Playa del ReyDel Rey Lagoon Park, about 14 acres, surrounds a shallow saltwater pond known as Del Rey Lagoon.
• Playa VistaWork to restore the Ballona Wetlands beside Playa Vista began in 1994, with developers and some environmentalists joining forces.
• Porter RanchThe Porter family acquired part of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in 1874, the land that later carried their name.
• Rancho Palos VerdesPortuguese Bend, a small part of Rancho Palos Verdes, has a record of landslides reaching back 250,000 years.
• Rancho ParkTiger Woods set the junior record of 64 on the par-71 Rancho Park golf course in 1989, when he was 13.
• Redondo BeachDigs at the nearby Chowigna site show people living around Redondo Beach as long as 7,100 years ago.
• ResedaReseda was founded in 1912, its business district began to grow in 1915, and a post office under the new name opened in 1922.
• Rolling HillsSummers in Rolling Hills are dry and run hotter than in the towns around it, peaking near 93 degrees in early September.
• Rolling Hills EstatesAt the 2020 census the rental vacancy rate in Rolling Hills Estates stood at 8.8 percent, against 2.5 percent for owner homes.
• San Fernando ValleyRinged by mountains from the San Gabriels to the Santa Susanas, the San Fernando Valley covers about 260 square miles on a floor that rises from roughly 600 to 1,200 feet.
• San GabrielIn 1853 a company of Army Engineers, geologist William P. Blake among them, passed the San Gabriel mission while scouting a route for a transcontinental railroad.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe 57 Orange Freeway is generally treated as the line between the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys.
• SawtelleSawtelle grew up around a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers founded in 1888, and it incorporated as a city in 1899.
• Sherman OaksSherman Oaks grew from a 1,000-acre subdivision, and the Los Angeles Almanac put its population at about 66,686 in 2022.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre calls itself the Wisteria City after a vine now some 500 feet long, and it was named an All-America City in 2007.
• Silver LakeSilver Lake began as a small community called Ivanhoe, after Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
• South BayNorthrop Grumman builds F/A-18 Hornet fuselages at a large plant in El Segundo and runs its Space Technology division from Redondo Beach.
• South PasadenaA federal judge's preliminary injunction of July 19, 1999, halted Caltrans' 710 Freeway extension, a project South Pasadena had long fought.
• Sunset StripThe Sunset Strip appears in Raymond Chandler's 1949 Philip Marlowe novel The Little Sister and lent its name to the 1958–1964 series 77 Sunset Strip.
• TarzanaThe gymnasium at the Tarzana Recreation Center doubles as an auditorium that seats 600.
• Temple CityThe original Temple townsite, recorded with the county as Tract 6561 in June 1923, is the core of today's Temple City.
• Toluca LakeComposer Erich Wolfgang Korngold lived right on the water at Toluca Lake from 1938 to 1957.
• TopangaAfter heavy rains on January 10, 2005, a 300-ton boulder rolled down a hillside and came to rest on Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
• TorranceFounded in October 1912 and incorporated on May 12, 1921, Torrance keeps 30 parks along with its beachfront on Santa Monica Bay.
• Valley GlenThe Postal Service recognized Valley Glen in 2008 by assigning it parts of three ZIP codes, and Mapping L.A. sizes the neighborhood at 4.81 square miles.
• Valley VillageValley Village's all-time record high is 117 degrees, reached on September 6, 2020.
• Van NuysThe Metro Orange Line reached Van Nuys in October 2005 with two stops, Van Nuys and Sepulveda.
• VeniceWhen Abbot Kinney opened Venice of America on July 4, 1905, he had dug miles of canals to drain the marshes and built a 1,200-foot pier with an auditorium and a dance hall.
• West HillsWest Hills was once part of Owensmouth, the town renamed Canoga Park in 1930, and today has the Chatsworth Reservoir on its northern edge.
• West HollywoodIn 1925 the county community then called Sherman adopted the name West Hollywood, coined a few years earlier by the West Hollywood Realty Board.
• WestchesterAirport growth cost Westchester some 4,500 homes and 14,000 residents, among them the 120-acre Manchester Square tract, bought and cleared piece by piece from 1999.
• Westlake VillageThe Russell brothers bought the land for cattle ranching in 1881, and the Russell Ranch later passed to William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and to Fred Albertson in 1943.
• WestsideUCLA anchors the Westside with roughly 28,000 undergraduates and 12,000 graduate students, and it draws more applicants than any other university in the country.
• WestwoodWestwood averages about 17.43 inches of rain a year, wetter than most settled parts of the county, and its wettest season brought 43.55 inches between September 1997 and June 1998.
• Windsor SquareFinancier George A. J. Howard pictured Windsor Square, between 1900 and 1910, as a park-like setting for family homes built in a country style.
• Woodland HillsVictor Girard Kleinberger founded the town of Girard on 2,886 acres in 1922, and the community took the name Woodland Hills in 1945.