Neighborhood of Los Angeles Northridge is positioned in San Fernando Valley Northridge - Northridge Northridge is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California in the San Fernando Valley.
It is the home of California State University, Northridge, as well as eleven enhance and eight private schools.
Originally titled Zelzah, the improve was retitled North Los Angeles in 1929 to accentuate its closeness to the booming city.
This created confusion with Los Angeles and North Hollywood.
At the suggestion of a civic leader, the improve was retitled Northridge in 1938. Northridge can trace its history back to the Gabrielino (or Tongva) citizens and to Spanish explorers.
Enumeration counted 57,561 inhabitants in the 9.47-square-mile Northridge neighborhood or 6,080 citizens per square mile, among the lowest populace densities for the city.
The neighborhood was considered "highly diverse " ethnically inside Los Angeles, with a high percentage of Asian citizens .
Northridge neighborhood as delineated by the Los Angeles Times Northridge touches Porter Ranch and Granada Hills on the north, North Hills on the east, Van Nuys on the southeast, Lake Balboa and Reseda on the south and Winnetka and Chatsworth on the west. The region now called Northridge was first inhabited about 2,000 years ago by the Native American Gabrielino (or Tongva) citizens .
Totonga was their tribal village and where Northridge eventually became located. The Gabrielino-Tongva citizens , who lived in dome-shaped homes, are sometimes referred to as the "people of the earth."[not in citation given] They spoke a Takic Uto-Aztecan (Shoshonean) language. It wasn't until 1769 when the region known as Northridge was descriptively first reported by Father Juan Crespi, the prolific diarist who accompanied the exploration party of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola on its arduous trek through California, including the Sepulveda Pass dominant to the San Fernando Valley.
Francis Marion ("Bud") Wright, an Iowa farm boy who migrated to California as a young man, became a ranch hand for Senator Porter and later co-developer of the 1,100-acre (4.5 km2) Hawk Ranch, which is now Northridge land. In 1951, a small-town reporter reported that Northridge's populace had reached 5,500 residents, an increase of 1,000 citizens from 1950.
The need also arose for Northridge to accommodate the new population, so in 1954 the first middle school opened in the quickly growing town.
Northridge Junior High School, later known as Northridge Middle School, opened with 1,000 students who had been brought all the way from Fulton Middle School in Van Nuys. Thirty-four percent of Northridge inhabitants aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average percentage for the town/city but high for the county.
Northridge Academy High School In 1962, Nobel Junior High School in Northridge became the first air-conditioned school in the Los Angeles school district. In 1982 the board considered method Prairie Street Elementary School in Northridge. It was positioned on the California State University, Northridge campus, and that college used Prairie as a laboratory school. In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended method eight LAUSD schools, including Prairie Street School. In August 1983 the board publicly considered method Prairie, which had 280 students at the time. In 1984 the board voted to close the Prairie Street School. In 1985 some parents were trying to have Prairie Street School re-opened. Secondary and lower-grade schools inside the Northridge boundaries are: Northridge Academy High School, 9601 Zelzah Avenue Northridge Middle School, 17960 Chase Street California State University, Northridge California State University, Northridge, or CSUN, part of the California State University system, offers bachelor's and master's degrees in a number of disciplines.
CSUN had its beginnings as a college on Nordhoff Street and Etiwanda Avenue and officially opened in 1956 as "San Fernando Valley Campus of Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences." Unlike Woodstock, "nearby" encompassed parts of suburban Northridge, where most of the small-town inhabitants were horrified to find their neighborhoods invaded by "hippies".
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was titled for Northridge based on early estimates of the locale of the quake's epicenter; however, further refinements showed it to be technically in neighboring Reseda. The earthquake, which occurred on a blind thrust fault, was one of the strongest ground motions ever recorded in North America.
Vertical and horizontal accelerations lifted structures off their foundations. During the 1994 quake, the Northridge Hospital Medical Center remained open and treated more than 1,000 patients who came to the facility amid the first several days after the 6.7-magnitude quake. California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Northridge Hospital Medical Center consists of a 411-bed hospital and serves 2 million inhabitants of the Valley.
The Recreation Center is positioned in Northridge.
The park also has barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outside basketball courts, a children's play area, a improve room, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. The Northridge Pool, on the recreation center grounds, is an outside heated cyclic pool. Northridge Hospital Medical Center Los Angeles Fire Department Station 70 (Northridge) and Station 103 (Northridge/CSUN) serve the community.
City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils that cover Northridge: Northridge East Neighborhood Council Northridge West Neighborhood Council Northridge South Neighborhood Council The Los Angeles Police Department operates two police stations that serve Northridge: The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Pacoima Health Center in Pacoima, serving Northridge. The United States Postal Service Northridge Post Office is positioned at 9534 Reseda Boulevard. Enumeration Bureau operates the Los Angeles Regional Enumeration Center in Chatsworth, adjoining to Northridge. Hal Bernson, Los Angeles City Council member, 1979-2003 a b c d e "Northridge," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times Colored map, Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times (PDF) Los Angeles Times.
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