City of Los Alamitos Los Alamitos City Hall Los Alamitos City Hall Official seal of City of Los Alamitos Location of Los Alamitos inside Orange County, California.
Location of Los Alamitos inside Orange County, California.
City of Los Alamitos is positioned in the US City of Los Alamitos - City of Los Alamitos Los Alamitos ("The Little Cottonwoods" in Spanish) is a small town/city in Orange County, California.
It is often mistakenly thought[who?] to include the adjoining but unincorporated improve of Rossmoor (population just under 11,000), which uses Los Alamitos as its mailing address.
The Los Alamitos Race Course is also widely believed[who?] to be in the city; although it does have a Los Alamitos postal address and zip code, it actually lies in the neighboring town/city of Cypress.
The USA Water Polo National Aquatic Center is positioned on the US Military Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, which includes the Los Alamitos Army Airfield.
The clusters of cottonwood trees Spanish explorers saw more than 200 years ago inspired Los Alamitos' name, but it is the sugar beet that figured most prominently in the area's later history.
Annexation is specified in the article on Rancho Los Alamitos.
The individual history of Los Alamitos separate from the rancho begins with the purchase by John Bixby of the Rancho Los Alamitos.
Hellman to finance the purchase of the Los Alamitos land.
The improve that interval up around this new sugar beet factory complex with its streets of business houses for workers and encircling farms came to be called Los Alamitos.
Ross, who actually ran the Los Alamitos operation, also received 1,000 acres east of the factory and a year later instead of a purchase of 8,000 acres (32 km2) of territory north of the sugar plant most of the latter in the Rancho Los Cerritos boundaries that would eventually turn into the Long Beach Airport, Long Beach City College, and the town/city of Lakewood.
In addition, some time after establishing Los Alamitos, the Clarks instead of their barns from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, establishing the desert stop of Las Vegas in the process.
Economics, combined with an insect infestation in 1921, caused sugar-beet crop to drop decidedly in Orange County and the eventual demise of the sugar beet trade there and in Los Alamitos.
Just before to and amid early World War II, the region around Los Alamitos became a primary center for the airplane industry.
A touch and go field was assembled on the level ground just east of Los Alamitos in August 1940.
Trainees and cadre began using the new facilities as early as November 1941, but it wasn't until May 1942 that NRAB Long Beach formally transitioned all operations to NRAB Los Alamitos.
After World War II, NRAB Los Alamitos was the busiest reserve air base in the country for a while, especially amid the Korean War, but by the late 1950s encroaching encircling suburban residentiary evolution began to curtail its activity.
Many former military personnel chose to stay on in Los Alamitos after the war, living in such mew neighborhoods as Carrier Row, where streets are titled for World War II airplane carriers, many of which had been the home for Navy pilots trained at Los Alamitos.
Finally, in 1955, the tract was instead of with the assembly of Los Alamitos Park.
Another subdivision of 193 units, Los Alamitos Terrace, was assembled in the region north of Old Town West, on territory once used as grazing territory for Bixby-operated dairy farm whose chief headquarters were positioned where Los Alamitos High School now stands. In 1956 builder Ross Cortese purchased territory to build the walled improve of Rossmoor just southwest from the townsite of Los Alamitos.
Although Rossmoor never officially became part of Los Alamitos proper, it has turn into inextricably linked to the town.
When Los Alamitos incorporated in 1960 its populace was only about 3,400, while still-growing Rossmoor was nearing 10,000.
Now they are fairly equal with Los Alamitos being slightly larger than 11,000.
Rossmoor, still an unincorporated part of Orange County, doesn't pay taxes to Los Alamitos, but the town/city virtually treats Rossmoor inhabitants as if they were residents.
In exchange, the city's many youth programs benefit from the overwhelming number of Rossmoor inhabitants who volunteer for those programs, and Rossmoor, having very little commercial areas of its own, contributes much revenue tax revenue to Los Alamitos.
The success of Rossmoor quickly led to other subdivisions in Los Alamitos Dutch Haven (built in 1960 by Luxury Homes, and William G.
The ambitious sugar-beet processor of today would be difficult pressed to set up shop in Los Alamitos.
The Los Alamitos youth baseball leagues, which began in 1958 as the Rossmoor Little League and, after moving its fields to the Navy base, eventually changed its name to Los Alamitos Youth baseball - LAYB) has been home to many future primary leaguers including Andy Messersmith, who challenged baseball's reserve clause and helped established no-charge agency in experienced sports .
In Los Alamitos, the USDA Hardiness Zone is 9. The Sunset climate zone is 22. Los Alamitos, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Los Alamitos had a populace of 11,449.
The ethnic makeup of Los Alamitos was 8,131 (71.0%) White (58.7% Non-Hispanic White), 324 (2.8%) African American, 51 (0.4%) Native American, 1,471 (12.8%) Asian, 50 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 726 (6.3%) from other competitions, and 696 (6.1%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 2,741 citizens (23.9%) under the age of 18, 1,077 citizens (9.4%) aged 18 to 24, 2,938 citizens (25.7%) aged 25 to 44, 3,099 citizens (27.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,594 citizens (13.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Los Alamitos had a median homehold income of $80,449, with 7.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. In the California State Legislature, Los Alamitos is in the 34th Senate District, represented by Republican Janet Nguyen, and in the 72nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Travis Allen. In the United States House of Representatives, Los Alamitos is in California's 47th congressional district, represented by Democrat Alan Lowenthal. Neverland Studios, a recording studio that was often used by Christian modern bands, was originally positioned in Los Alamitos.
Tilly's had its initial locale in Los Alamitos.
1 Los Alamitos Medical Center 1,100 Snow, American baseball player attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Seal Beach.
Robb Nen, American baseball player attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Seal Beach.
Landry Fields, basketball player for the New York Knicks of the NBA attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Long Beach.
Chris Kluwe, punter for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Seal Beach.
Tim Carey, American football player attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Seal Beach.
Matthew Morrison, American singer actor, (Broadway plays, Fox TV's "Glee") -- attended Los Alamitos HS, but interval up in Cypress.
It is a part of the Los Alamitos Unified School District, which began in 1898 as the Laurel Elementary School District, and changed its name in 1953 to the Los Alamitos Elementary School District, providing education up through sixth grade.
Students in Grades 7-12 attended schools in the Anaheim School District, until 1979 when small-town voters, after a several floundered attempts, finally received state permission to hold an election, and voted to withdraw from the Anaheim High School Disrtrict and unify all their small-town grades under the name the Los Alamitos Unified School District.
Los Alamitos High School (opened September 1967, moved into current permanent locale in September 1968) Laurel High School (continuation school, combined into Los Alamitos High School in 2014) Los Alamitos Elementary Flag of Los Angeles County, California.svg - Greater Los Angeles portal City of Los Alamitos.
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Los Alamitos city".
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