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Lake Los Angeles, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the North Antelope Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93591. The Survey maps it on the Lovejoy Buttes quadrangle. 13,187 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,661 feet above sea level.

Lake Los Angeles within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1930 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Los Angeles, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Lake Los Angeles, surveyed 1930

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Los Angeles grew from 12,328 to 13,187 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201012,328
202013,187+859 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

124 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Lake Los Angeles between 2005 and 2020, burning about 241 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Debris and open burning9
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
8 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
16 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
10 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wilsona (historical)3.1 miles19
Wilsona Gardens3.8 miles20
Desert Relief (historical)7.4 miles20
Llano7.4 miles20
Antelope Center7.8 miles20
Pearblossom8.5 miles20
Hi Vista8.9 miles18
Walton Place (historical)8.9 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lake Los AngelesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1966409The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1666854. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.