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• Agoura HillsAgoura Hills gets water from the Las Virgenes district in Calabasas, filtered at its Westlake plant and disinfected with chloramines.
• AlhambraDowntown Alhambra, a city since July 11, 1903, is thick with condominiums, apartments and mixed-use buildings.
• ArcadiaCity-owned pumps in the Main San Gabriel and Raymond basins supply Arcadia with groundwater, recharged by rain and imported water.
• Beverly GroveBeverly Grove owes its name to a Los Angeles Times mapping project, and the paper later conceded in 2014 that the label had not been widely used.
• BeverlywoodWalter Leimert's 1940 development binds Beverlywood's owners to some of the earliest enforceable deed restrictions in Los Angeles.
• BradburyRushing to avoid becoming part of Duarte, Bradbury filed its incorporation and became a city on August 22, 1957.
• BurbankBurbank stayed independent from Los Angeles because it had its own wells, and in 1928 it helped found the Metropolitan Water District as one of 13 original cities.
• Canoga ParkOwensmouth, as Canoga Park was first called, had no water of its own and joined Los Angeles on February 26, 1917.
• CarthayRenter households make up 64.7 percent of Carthay's housing.
• Century CityAbout six in ten Century City homes belong to their occupants, the rest to renters.
• ChatsworthSummer afternoons in Chatsworth usually reach the 90s or touch 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Cheviot HillsCheviot Hills gets LADWP's western supply, which averaged 103 mg/L of hardness as it left the aqueduct filtration plant.
• Culver CityCulver City carries an asterisk in LADWP's western service list, meaning the water source there can shift with operating needs.
• Del ReyOld market-garden land into the 1950s, Del Rey today is roughly seven tenths renter-occupied.
• Echo ParkThe lake at Echo Park started out in 1868 as a reservoir for drinking water, supplied by a channel from the Los Angeles River.
• El SegundoOn Santa Monica Bay, El Segundo has about 7,400 homes, a little over 57 percent of them rented.
• EncinoWell water in LADWP's Valley area, which can reach Encino, averaged 115 mg/L of hardness at the Northern Combined Wells.
• FairfaxIn 2019 the city designated the 1920s apartment blocks east of Fairfax and north of Beverly as the Beverly Fairfax Historic District.
• GlendaleGlendale's temperature extremes run from 17 degrees Fahrenheit in February 1990 to 115 degrees in September 2020.
• Granada HillsGranada Hills is where the Los Angeles Aqueduct ends, at the Van Norman Reservoir.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa Beach enjoys about 325 sunny days a year and is typically 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than inland.
• Hidden HillsThe Las Virgenes district, whose customers include Hidden Hills, holds a reserve in its Westlake Village reservoir meant to carry them about six months in an emergency.
• HollywoodHollywood gets LADWP's central-city blend, disinfected with chloramines.
• Hollywood / Central LAHollywood, Koreatown, Los Feliz, Silverlake and Hancock Park are all mapped by LADWP into its central area, where aqueduct water meets imported supply and groundwater.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills fall under LADWP's Valley service area, which can draw on the aqueduct, basin wells and State Water Project deliveries.
• Hollywood Hills WestOn its western side Hollywood Hills West stops at the Trousdale Estates line of Beverly Hills, and on the north at Mulholland Drive.
• KoreatownAbout 93 percent of Koreatown's homes are rented, on mostly level ground near 200 feet of elevation.
• La Cañada FlintridgeThe upper reaches of La Cañada Flintridge can pick up a trace of snow in winter storms, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sits within the city.
• Lake BalboaSplit off from Van Nuys, Lake Balboa is about two thirds owner-occupied.
• Larchmont VillageNearly 73 percent of Larchmont households rent their homes.
• Laurel CanyonSpanish ranchers grazed sheep on Laurel Canyon's slopes in the late 1700s and early 1800s, drawn by its dependable water.
• Los FelizPeriod Revival houses from 1920 through 1949 define the historic district in the Los Feliz Heights.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsEdison circuits in the hills around Malibu can be de-energized whenever forecasters call for critical fire weather.
• Mar VistaMar Vista is served with LADWP's western blend: Owens Valley and Mono Basin water brought by aqueduct, plus State Water Project imports.
• Marina del ReyMarina del Rey is unincorporated county land hemmed in on every side by the City of Los Angeles, near the mouth of Ballona Creek.
• Mid-WilshireMid-Wilshire's Park La Brea spreads 4,255 apartments across eighteen towers of 13 stories and 31 low garden buildings.
• Miracle MileThe Miracle Mile preservation zone alone takes in 1,347 properties, and a second zone covers Miracle Mile North.
• MonroviaOnce a scatter of orange ranches, Monrovia incorporated in December 1887 and now has more than 37,000 residents.
• Mount OlympusMount Olympus is placed by LADWP in its central-city area, measured at the aqueduct filtration plant and the Southern Combined Wells.
• Nichols CanyonJacob Miller, an early avocado grower, bought seventy acres in Nichols Canyon in 1879, and for years it was known as Miller Canyon.
• North HollywoodLADWP lists North Hollywood in its Valley service area, supplied by aqueduct water, basin wells and State Water Project imports.
• NorthridgePostwar Northridge turned its agricultural parcels into subdivisions of single-family houses for veterans.
• PalmsPalms, founded in 1886, lost most of its early houses to two-story and larger apartment buildings, and very few originals survive.
• Pico-RobertsonBais Chaya Mushka and Bais Chana, two of the four schools the local Chabad community runs, stand on Pico Boulevard.
• Playa del ReyPlaya del Rey is one of the beach neighborhoods LADWP serves from its western supply, measured at the aqueduct filtration plant.
• Playa VistaPlaya Vista wraps around West Fox Hills, a small pocket of unincorporated county land.
• Porter RanchIn October 2015 workers found a leaking well at the Aliso Canyon gas storage field, roughly a mile north of Porter Ranch houses.
• Rancho Palos VerdesRancho Palos Verdes installed dozens of dewatering wells and new drainage to stabilize its landslide areas over the long term.
• Rancho ParkThough on the Westside, Rancho Park is filed by LADWP with its central-city communities, where some local well water joins the aqueduct and State Water Project supply.
• Redondo BeachOwners and renters split Redondo Beach's roughly 30,600 homes almost evenly.
• ResedaLos Angeles took in the rural Reseda area in 1915, and renters and owners now split its housing close to half and half.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills keeps a rural, horse-country character: multi-acre lots, single-story ranch and hacienda houses, and no traffic signals.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates, a city since 1957, is laced with horse paths.
• San Fernando ValleyBetween roughly 600 and 1,200 feet above sea level, the Valley floor was largely farmland until Los Angeles absorbed its rural districts in 1915.
• San GabrielSan Gabriel was part of the old San Gabriel Township before it incorporated in 1913, and its homes today are split about evenly between owners and renters.
• San Gabriel ValleyThirty-one cities and five unincorporated communities share the San Gabriel Valley's roughly 200 square miles.
• SawtelleSawtelle governed itself as a city from 1899 until July 1922, when it became Los Angeles' 36th annexation.
• Sherman OaksSherman Oaks belongs to LADWP's Valley service area, where aqueduct water is reported alongside local wells and Metropolitan's Jensen plant.
• Sierra MadreIn 1940 Sierra Madre bought 760 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains near Orchard Camp to keep its water supply clean.
• Silver LakeThe neighborhood takes its name from the 1907 reservoir built by the city's water department and from Water Commissioner Herman Silver, who championed it.
• South BayAerospace work anchors much of the South Bay, with Northrop Grumman building F/A-18 fuselages in El Segundo and running its space technology headquarters in Redondo Beach.
• South PasadenaSouth Pasadena became Los Angeles County's sixth municipality on March 2, 1888, with a little over 500 residents.
• Sunset StripGambling that was illegal inside Los Angeles was legal on the county land of the Sunset Strip in the 1920s, which fed a wilder nightlife there.
• TarzanaEdgar Rice Burroughs owned the ranch where Tarzana now stands and named the place for his fictional ape-man hero.
• Temple CityOf Temple City's roughly 12,100 homes, close to two thirds are owner-occupied.
• Toluca LakeArtesian springs once fed Toluca Lake's namesake water, and today wells around its shoreline hold its level.
• TopangaBy land area no unincorporated place in Los Angeles County is bigger than Topanga, much of it left wild.
• TorranceTorrance was once dotted with thousands of oil wells and derricks, and a refinery at the north end of the city still makes much of the region's gasoline.
• Valley GlenValley Glen, formerly a slice of Van Nuys and North Hollywood, won official neighborhood status from Los Angeles in June 1998.
• Valley VillageThe temperature in Valley Village hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit on September 6, 2020, an all-time high there.
• Van NuysVan Nuys voted to join Los Angeles in 1915 because the new aqueduct offered the water its growth depended on.
• VeniceVenice had some 450 oil wells within two years of drilling starting there, and the final ones, by the Venice Pavilion, were sealed in 1991.
• West HillsClose to 87 percent of West Hills homes are owner-occupied, and August afternoons average about 96 degrees Fahrenheit.
• West HollywoodAbout 78 percent of West Hollywood's occupied homes are rented, in a city with roughly 24,600 housing units.
• WestchesterWestchester is on LADWP's western service list, fed by aqueduct water whose hardness averaged 103 mg/L as calcium carbonate.
• Westlake VillageBuilt in the early 1970s, the Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake Village stores close to 3 billion gallons, about half a year of district demand.
• WestsideNearly every Westside district inside Los Angeles city limits, Brentwood, Westwood, Venice and Westchester among them, gets LADWP's western supply of aqueduct water plus State Water Project imports.
• WestwoodLADWP's western service area includes Westwood, and its tap-water figures come from the aqueduct filtration plant.
• Windsor SquareIts 1911 plan made Windsor Square, now about 1,100 homes, the first part of Los Angeles with power lines run below ground.
• Woodland HillsThe Los Angeles County heat record belongs to Woodland Hills, where Pierce College read 121 degrees Fahrenheit on September 6, 2020.