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The history of the San Fernando Valley from its exploration by the 1769 Portola expedition to the annexation of much of it by the City of Los Angeles in 1915 is a story of booms and busts, as cattle ranching, sheep ranching, large-scale wheat farming, and fruit orchards flourished and faded. Throughout its history, settlement in the San ...
In San Fernando Valley, the highest recorded temperature was 121 °F (49 °C) on September 5, 2020. The lowest temperature was 18 °F (−8 °C) on February 6, 1989. Snowfall inside the city of Los Angeles is rare.
The Santa Ana winds sweep down from the deserts and across coastal Southern California, pushing dust and smoke from wildfires far out over the Pacific Ocean. Los Angeles is in the upper left of this image, while San Diego is near the center. The Santa Ana winds, also sometimes called the devil winds, [1] [2] are strong, extremely dry downslope ...
The 1939 California tropical storm, also known as the 1939 Long Beach tropical storm, and El Cordonazo (referring to the Cordonazo winds or the "Lash of St. Francis" ( Spanish: el cordonazo de San Francisco )), was a tropical cyclone that affected Southern California in September 1939. Formerly classified a hurricane, [1] it was the first ...
The Sepulveda Dam was built in 1941 to prevent the Los Angeles River from flooding the lower San Fernando Valley, Burbank and Glendale. Along the San Gabriel River, the Santa Fe Dam and Whittier Narrows Dam had both been proposed prior to 1938, but had little political support until the devastation of the 1938 flood, after which federal funds ...
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California.Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it contains a large portion of the city of Los Angeles, several unincorporated areas, and the incorporated cities of Burbank, Calabasas, Glendale, Hidden Hills and San Fernando.
Granada Hills, Los Angeles. / 34.283°N 118.500°W / 34.283; -118.500. Granada Hills is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. The community has a sports program and a range of city recreation centers. The neighborhood has fourteen public and ten private schools.
The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Ms scale and 6.6 on the Mw scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI ( Extreme ).