Woodland Hills, Los Angeles Woodland Hills Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including Warner Center, from the Top of Topanga Overlook Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including Warner Center, from the Top of Topanga Overlook Woodland Hills is positioned in San Fernando Valley Woodland Hills - Woodland Hills Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the town/city of Los Angeles, California.
Woodland Hills is an well-to-do neighborhood in the southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley which is positioned east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana.
Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, whose end is at Valley Circle Boulevard in Woodland Hills.
The region was inhabited for approximately 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Fernandeno-Tataviam and Chumash-Venturano tribes that lived in the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills and close to the Arroyo Calabasas (Calabasas Creek) tributary of the Los Angeles River in present-day Woodland Hills. The first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, seeking 'Alta California' for Spanish missions and settlements locations.
Catherine of Bononia of the Oaks). The Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana (Mission San Fernando) was established in 1797 and controlled the Valley's land, including future Woodland Hills. Ownership of the southern half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills, by Americans began in the 1860s.
First Isaac Lankershim (as the "San Fernando Farm Homestead Association") in 1869, then Isaac Lankershim's son, James Boon Lankershim, and Isaac Newton Van Nuys (as the "Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company") in 1873, and finally in the "biggest territory transaction ever recorded in Los Angeles County" a syndicate led by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Gen.
Became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The improve of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, and in 1945 it became known as Woodland Hills. Woodland Hills has a firmly subtropical mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csa).
Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills generally experiences some of the more extreme temperature shifts season to season than other regions.
On July 22, 2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, hitting 119 F (48 C) at Pierce College. The climate is classified as a Csa in the Koppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers.
This climate is often referred to as mediterranean. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, although somewhat higher amounts of rainfall occur in the encircling hills. Climate data for Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA (1981 2010 normals) In 2008 the populace of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000.
As of the 2000 census, and as stated to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 citizens and 29,119 homeholds residing in Woodland Hills.
In population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white citizens is high for the county.
The percentage of veterans, 10.7% of the population, was high for the town/city of Los Angeles and high for the county overall.
The 2008 Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." universal supplied these Woodland Hills neighborhood statistics: population: 59,661; median homehold income: $93,720.
The Times said the latter figure was "high for the town/city of Los Angeles and high for the county." Woodland Hills Warner Center Neighborhood Council is the small-town propel advisory body to the town/city of Los Angeles representing stakeholders in the Woodland Hills and Warner Center areas. Los Angeles Fire Department Station 84 (Woodland Hills) and Station 105 (Woodland Hills) serve the community.
Los Angeles Police Department operates the close-by West Valley Community Police Station in Reseda and the newly assembled Topanga Division station in Canoga Park. The United States Postal Service Woodland Hills Post Office is positioned at 22121 Clarendon Street. The community's postal codes are 91364, 91365, and 91367.
Public schools serving Woodland Hills are under the jurisdiction the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Woodland Hills Elementary School Woodland Hills Charter Academy (formerly known as Parkman Middle School) Chaminade College Preparatory High School Coed Marianist Catholic High School Crespi Carmelite High School All Boys Catholic High School Louisville High School All female Catholic High School Woodland Hills Private School serving Preschool (starting at 2 years old) through Fifth Grade. Lycee International de Los Angeles previously had a Woodland Hills campus, which had over 140 students as of 2001.
This was in a enhance school building, rented from the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Lycee Francais de Los Angeles previously directed a San Fernando Valley ground in Woodland Hills, on the site of Platt Elementary School. Colleges and universities in Woodland Hills include: Los Angeles Pierce College (part of the Los Angeles Community College District) The Los Angeles Public Library operates the Woodland Hills Branch Library (Ventura Boulevard) and the Platt Branch Library (Victory Boulevard) in Woodland Hills. Woodland Hills is home to the Woodland Hills Country Club, a private equity golf club.
The Woodland Hills Recreation Center (Shoup Park) is a 19-acre (7.7 ha) park in Woodland Hills.
The park also has a lighted baseball diamond, outside lighted basketball courts, a children's play area, a lighted football field, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. Woodland Hills Pool is an outside cyclic unheated swimming pool. The Warner Center Park, also known as Warner Ranch Park, is positioned in Woodland Hills. The park, unstaffed and unlocked, has a children's play region and picnic tables. Serrania Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked pocket park.
It has a children's play area, hiking trails, and picnic tables. Alizondo Drive Park in Woodland Hills is an unstaffed, unlocked, and undeveloped park used for brush clearance once per year. Along the boundary of Woodland Hills is the large Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a county-wide park with a trail network for miles of hiking, mountain biking, and equestrian rides.
The trailhead and parking are at the very end of Victory Boulevard in Woodland Hills.
The Top of Topanga Overlook gives panoramic views of the verdant Woodland Hills neighborhoods and the Valley. Many Hollywood celebrities have spent their final days and died in Woodland Hills because it is the locale of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, a private retirement, nursing care and acute-care hospital facility established in the 1940s and reserved exclusively for trade professionals.
The list below is of notables in various fields who made their homes in Woodland Hills in the usual way clean water at that institution, but there may be instances of overlap or cases of mistaken classification.
Jacques Aubuchon, actor who had a home in Woodland Hills at the time of his death. Ted Cassidy, actor; his cremated remains are buried in an unmarked locale at his former Woodland Hills residence. Larry Drew II, pro basketball player, attended high school in Woodland Hills Jordan Farmar, pro basketball player, attended high school in Woodland Hills America Ferrara, actress, attended high school in Woodland Hills Jeff Fisher, NFL head coach, attended high school in Woodland Hills Conor Jackson, Major League Baseball player, attended high school in Woodland Hills Kevin Kennedy, Major League Baseball player, manager and broadcaster, attended high school in Woodland Hills Lisa Kudrow, actress, attended high school in Woodland Hills Maureen Mc - Cormick, actress, attended high school in Woodland Hills Christopher Mintz-Plasse, actor, attended high school in Woodland Hills Steve Smith, NFL wide receiver, attended high school in Woodland Hills Jan Smithers, actress, attended high school in Woodland Hills Wilmer Valderrama, actor, attended high school in Woodland Hills Captain Beefheart's definitive album Trout Mask Replica was composed and rehearsed in a communal home in Woodland Hills 1968 1969. Quincy Watts, Olympic sprinter, attended high school in Woodland Hills Randy Wolf, Major League Baseball player, attended high school in Woodland Hills Robin Yount, Hall of Fame baseball player, attended high school in Woodland Hills Roderick, Kevin, The San Fernando Valley: America's Suburb, Los Angeles Times Books, 2001, ISBN 1-883792-55-X.
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