History
Los Angeles County was one of the original counties of California, created at
the time of statehood in 1850. Parts of the county's territory were given to San Bernardino County in 1853, to
Kern County in 1866 and to Orange County in 1899.
Los Angeles County is the most populous county in the United States. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles.
The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated city-like areas. The coastal portion of the
county is heavily urbanized, though there is a large expanse of lesser populated desert inland in the Santa Clarita
Valley, and especially in the Antelope Valley which encompasses the northeastern parts of the county and adjacent
eastern Kern County, lying just north of Los Angeles County. In between the large desert portions of the county
which make up around 40 percent of its land area and the heavily urbanized central and southern portions sits the
San Gabriel Mountains containing Angeles National Forest. All of southern Los Angeles County, up to about the center
of the county, is heavily urbanized.
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Major divisions of the county
Greater Los Angeles Area
East: East Los
Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, Pomona Valley
West: West Los
Angeles, Beach Cities
South: South
Bay, Palos Verdes Peninsula, South Los Angeles, Gateway Cities
North: San Fernando
Valley, portions of the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley
Central: Downtown
Los Angeles, Mid-Wilshire
Largest Cities
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Glendale
Santa Clarita
Pomona
Palmdale
Torrance
Pasadena
Lancaster
El Monte
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Updates:
22 March 2008: 1930 Census Merchant Seaman- Barb Z.
Bios. - Anna Newell
New Cities and Neighborhoods listing - Candi H.
Information on Chinatown,
Hollywood, Pasadena,
South Pasadena - Candi H.
City of Artesia information on the first constable - Barb Z.
Events- 1933 long Beach Earthquake - Barb Z
20 March 2008:
7 new Obits.- contributed by: Sara Hemp, Anna Newell, Barbara Ziegenmeyer
1905 Birth Listing, A - Z Surnames-
contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer
3 New Biography -
contributed by: Barbara Ziegenmeyer and Chris
Walters
14 Feb 2008:
Kidnapping stories for GETTLE and WELLMAN
8 Nov 2007:
Oliphant obit
11 Sep 2007:
MOIR Pension; CARLTON
crime
story;
HULS
obit
10 Apr 2007: New
Death Listings from the 1843 Chicago City Directory
14 Mar 2007: Leininger
obit,
ST.
Francis Dam disaster,
History of the First Baptist Church
of L.A.
10 Mar 2007:
Deaths
18 Jan 2007:
1850 Mortality Schedule (under
Census)
4 Dec 2006:
Obit
11 Nov 2006:
Engagement notice;
Newspaper
Items
6 Nov 2006: WW2 Pearl Harbor Medal of Honor Recipient
John W. Finn
27 Oct 2006:
Marriages and
Obituaries Added
20 Oct 2006: Online |
