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View Park, California

40 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Los Angeles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 90043. The Survey maps it on the Inglewood quadrangle. 11,419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

View Park within Los Angeles County

Then and now

1896 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of View Park, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of View Park, surveyed 1896

Compare 1896 against another survey:

On record in View Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

4 figures

View Park fell from 11,769 to 11,419 between 1990 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
199011,769
200010,958-811 (-7%)
201011,075+117 (+1%)
202011,419+344 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 40 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

215 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of View Park between 2005 and 2020, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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/undetermined147
Smoking22
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresLos Angeles County Fire Departmentnot named
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
25 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
24 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

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of View Park: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
City Brick Co. PitClayPast Producer
Independent Brick Co. Pit and PlantClayPast Producer
Simmons Brick Co.-Inglewood PlantClayPast Producer
Standard Brick Co.-Inglewood YardClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names View Park in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2014Tornado (EF0)View Park-A weak EF0 tornado developed in south Los Angeles. The tornado damaged the roof of an apartment complex, two residential roofs and a steel billboard.

Every storm 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
Baldwin Hills0.5 miles42
Leimert Park0.8 miles42
Windsor Hills0.9 miles40
Dorset Village1.1 miles40
Hyde Park1.4 miles40
Van Ness1.7 miles40
Cienega1.7 miles42
Ladera Heights1.8 miles40

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 View ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q261383The 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 1661639. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.