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Lake Los Angeles is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 13,187 at the 2020 census, up from 12,328 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is located 17 miles (27 km) east of Palmdale's Civic Center.
The dry lakebed of Lake Elizabeth in 2016 The dry lakebed of Lake Elizabeth in 2018. The lake, at 3,228 ft (984 m) in elevation, is within the Angeles National Forest.It is a natural perennial lake, but may dry up entirely during drought years.
The lake area was to the west of Rancho La Liebre, an 1846 Mexican land grant now part of Tejon Ranch. In 1907 William Mulholland, superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, started work on the Elizabeth Lake Tunnel for transporting water in the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley to Los Angeles. The 5-mile-long (8 km ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
This lake was created in 1972, [1] and completed in 1973, as a holding reservoir for the California State Water Project. The lake was named after a pyramid-shaped rock carved out by engineers building U.S. Route 99. [2] Travelers between Los Angeles and Bakersfield christened the landmark “Pyramid Rock,” which still stands just adjacent to ...
Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east-central region of Los Angeles, California, United States, [2] originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott.
The 2000 census found that 48.4% of Toluca Lake residents within Los Angeles had earned a four-year degree, a high figure for both the city and the county. The percentage of those residents with a master's degree or higher was large for the county. [1] The Los Angeles section of Toluca Lake is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
"Cities within the County of Los Angeles" (PDF). Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County "Census 2010: Table 3A — Total Population by Race (Hispanic exclusive) and Hispanic or Latino: 2010". California Department of Finance. Archived from the original (Excel) on November 24, 2011