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Sunland-Tujunga / t ə ˈ h ʌ ŋ ɡ ə / is a Los Angeles city neighborhood within the Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. [1] Sunland and Tujunga began as separate settlements and today are linked through a single police station, branch library, neighborhood council, chamber of commerce, city council district, and high school. [2]
Tuyunga or Tujunga (Tongva: Tuhuunga, “place of the old woman”) [1] is a former Tongva (Fernandeño) village now located at Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California. The village was located near the original Rancho Los Encinos that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley .
Situated at the base of the Verdugo Mountains, Sun Valley is prone to flash floods, and one such flood on Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 22:37 (10:37 p.m. PST) destroyed a portion of the 8000 block of Tujunga Avenue and killed a Los Angeles City civil engineer when a sinkhole 30 feet (9.1 m) deep opened. [5]
Tujunga can refer to a few different things: Tujunga, the Tongva village; Tujunga, a genus of picture-winged fly; Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, a neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley; Rancho Tujunga, a Mexican land grant that became Sunland and Tujunga, LA; Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River
The North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library, formerly Sidney Lanier Branch Library, also referred to as North Hollywood Branch and North Hollywood Library, is a branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system, located at 5211 N. Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Three wildfires ignited in Palmdale, Tujunga and Angeles National Forest. A heat wave is expected to build over Southern California through the weekend. Multiple fires break out in L.A. County ...
Rancho Tujunga was a 6,661-acre (26.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in the western Crescenta Valley and northeastern San Fernando Valley, in present-day Los Angeles County, California. It was granted in 1840 by Mexican governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Lopez and Pedro Lopez.
Big Tujunga Dam is a 244-foot-high (74 m) concrete arch dam in Los Angeles County, California, spanning Big Tujunga Canyon northeast of Sunland, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Completed in 1931, it provides flood control and groundwater recharge for the San Fernando Valley .