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Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. Before the Mexican–American War, the district was ration of a rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and later subdivided, with portion of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912. It united Los Angeles in 1917 and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1, 1931, after Canoga, New York.

History

Pre-American history

The area of present-day Canoga Park was the homeland of Native Americans in the Tongva-Fernandeño and Chumash-Venturaño tribes, that lived in the Simi Hills and along to the tributaries of the Los Angeles River. They traded gone the north Valley Tataviam-Fernandeño people. Native American civilizations inhabited the Valley for an estimated 8,000 years. Their culture left the Burro Flats Painted Cave nearby.

From 1797 to 1846, the Place was part of Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando). After the Mexican War of Independence from Spain the ‘future Canoga Park’ land became portion of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. In 1845, a land attain for the remove and historically rich Rancho El Escorpión was issued by Governor Pío Pico to three Chumash people, Odón Eusebia, his brother-in-law Urbano, and Urbano’s son Mañuel. It was located in the area west of Fallbrook Avenue and innovative called Platt Ranch.

American history

In 1863, the syndicate San Fernando Homestead Association led by Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys purchased the southern half of the historic San Fernando Valley. They acknowledged seven wheat ranch operations and were the first to ship wheat to Europe from California. In 1869, Alfred Workman acquired the westernmost ranch, a 13,000 acres (50 km) wheat farm in future Canoga Park (for more: See Landmarks section below). Eucalyptus trees were introduced into the San Fernando Valley by Albert Workman, who imported seedlings from his indigenous Australia and planted them upon the Workman Ranch. In time, they build up through the Canoga Park area ranches, farms and beyond. It has been said that these trees are the parents of anything eucalyptus trees in Southern California.

The entire south San Fernando Valley, from Roscoe Boulevard south to the hills, with sure exceptions, were to be subdivided in anticipation of the Los Angeles aqueduct’s exploit in 1913. The purchasers of the home included Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman (a Los Angeles Pacific Railroad streetcar heritage builder), and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, an all purpose real estate developer who, from a start in the Land Rush of 1889 in Oklahoma to platting out 140 towns, including Hollywood.

The Place was originally named Owensmouth by Los Angeles Suburban Home Company by general officer Hobart Johnstone Whitley as a sales tactic in that the town would be the supplementary mouth of the Owens River, after the Los Angeles Aqueduct would be completed the adjacent year. The town was founded upon March 30, 1912, and the Suburban Home Company contracted in the same way as the Janss Investment Company, to sell properties. A pre-development Plan brought Pacific Electric streetcars and an whatever purpose highway (Sherman Way) out all the mannerism from Hollywood through Cahuenga Pass, through the past subdivided Van Nuys (1911). Highlighting the “opening day barbecue” was the display of the “Owensmouth Baby”, a racecar that could go happening and next to the paved Sherman Way at the incredible speed of 35 mph.

Owensmouth, as the junior San Fernando Valley city to Van Nuys, promoted itself following the “baby” motif—using storks in their advertisement. The “baby city” of the Valley remained a very little community.

The nonattendance of an independent water supply made annexation to the City of Los Angeles inevitable, and on February 26, 1917, it allied with its larger neighbor. The publish was misused to Canoga Park in 1931, thanks to the efforts of local civic leader Mary Logan Orcutt. Eventually, the area’s zoning was rural/agricultural and its industry was little farms involved in the production of fruits, vegetables, and melons, some livestock, horses, a movie/television studio, and a stunt location.

The Canoga Park Airstrip occupied the Place now known as “Warner Center” (as shown on the street map 1955 Thomas Guide).

Recent history

In 1955, Rocketdyne, then a hostility of North American Aviation (NAA), moved into the Place and built its main manufacturing knack in Canoga Park. The knack became a major employer along behind the Atomics International and Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) divisions of NAA. Other aerospace companies followed: including Thompson Ramo Wooldridge-TRW, Hughes Aircraft, Rockwell International, Boeing, and Teledyne. Small machine shops and new ancillary businesses next sprang going on to promote the aerospace industry. The Rocketdyne knack was in the halt operated by Aerojet Rocketdyne, who moved out of Canoga Park in 2014. Demolition and site clearing of the former Rocketdyne aptitude in Canoga Park commenced in August 2016. The Santa Susana Field Lab property has along with been closed and will be undergoing an extensive environmental cleanup, and become an open-space park.

In 1987, much of the western district of Canoga Park was renamed West Hills. On June 25, 2005, Canoga Park was named an All-America City.

Geography

Canoga Park is bordered by Woodland Hills upon the south, West Hills on the west, Chatsworth on the north, and Winnetka upon the east.

Bell and Dayton Creeks flowing from the Simi Hills, and Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) from the Santa Monica Mountains are several of the headwaters of the Los Angeles River that originate in the western San Fernando Valley that flow through Canoga Park. The Los Angeles River itself begins at the confluence of Calabasas Creek and Bell Creek astern Canoga Park High School. These and other little creeks supply stormwater and suburban runoff water to the Los Angeles River, and several are considered year circular creeks. Although the creeks are now channeled and control within real walls, they accomplish form a significant urban wildlife landscape and contribute to the population of native wildlife left within the San Fernando Valley.

Climate

This Place experiences hot and definitely dry summers. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Canoga Park has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated “Csa” on climate maps.

Population

The 2000 U.S. census counted 53,227 residents in the 4.35-square-mile Canoga Park neighborhood—or 12,240 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 60,578. In 2000, the median age for residents was 30, also nearly average for city and county neighborhoods.

The neighborhood was considered “highly diverse” ethnically within Los Angeles. The psychotherapy was 50.9% Latino; 30.7% White; 11.1% Asian; 4.3% Black; and 3.1% other. Mexico (45.8%) and El Salvador (11.6%) were the most common places of birth for the 42.8% of the residents who were born abroad—which was about an average percentage for Los Angeles as a whole.

The median once a year household allowance in 2008 dollars was $51,601, considered average for the city. Renters occupied 63.6% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 36.4%. The average household size of three people was average for Los Angeles. The 18.1% of families headed by single parents was along with average for city neighborhoods.

The percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was accompanied by the county’s highest, as was the percentage of never-married men (40.4%).

Government

Police

Los Angeles Police Department Topanga Community Police Station serves residents in Canoga Park, parts of Winnetka, West Hills, and Woodland Hills. The Topanga Community Police Station opened in January 2009. The police department named the station after a village in the Tongva language of the historically local Tongva-Fernandeño Native Americans tribe. The department originally planned to say it the Northwest Station, but residents preferred a read out linking to the town’s history. Prior to the creation of the Topanga station, the Devonshire Community Police Station served addresses north of Roscoe Boulevard even though the West Valley Police Station served addresses south of Roscoe Boulevard.

Post offices

The United States Postal Service operates the Canoga Park Post Office at 8201 Canoga Avenue and the Challenger Post Office at 21801 Sherman Way. Challenger Station maintains a significant WPA mural by Western artiste Maynard Dixon.

Public libraries

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Canoga Park Branch Library at 20939 Sherman Way.

Federal representation

State representation

Canoga Park is located within California’s 45th State Assembly district represented by Democrat Jesse Gabriel and California’s 27th State Senate district represented by Democrat Henry Stern.

Local representation

Canoga Park is located within Los Angeles City Council District 3 represented by Bob Blumenfield.

Parks and recreation

Education

Eighteen percent of Canoga Park residents age 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for the city and the county.

Schools within the Canoga Park borders are:

Public

Los Angeles Unified School District serves the community.

Private

Notable people

See also

References

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