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Encyclopedia > Lakewood, California
City of Lakewood
Official seal of City of Lakewood
Seal
Motto: Times Change. Values Don't.
Location of Lakewood in Los Angeles County, California
Location of Lakewood in Los Angeles County, California
Coordinates: 33°50′51″N 118°7′12″W / 33.8475, -118.12
Country United States
State California
County Los Angeles
Incorporated (city) 1954-04-16 [2]
Government
 - Mayor Larry Van Nostran [1]
Area
 - City  9.50 sq mi (24.60 km²)
 - Land  9.43 sq mi (24.42 km²)
 - Water  0.07 sq mi (0.18 km²)
Elevation  46 ft (14 m)
Population (2005)[3]
 - City 88,253
 - Density 8,414.8/sq mi (3,249.0/km²)
Time zone PST (UTC-8)
 - Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
Zip Code 90711, 90712, 90713, 90714, 90715, 90716, 90805 [4]
Area code(s) 562 [5]
FIPS code 06-39892
GNIS feature ID 1660883
Website: http://www.lakewoodcity.org/
Lakewood City Hall
Lakewood City Hall

Lakewood is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 79,345 at the 2000 census. It is bordered by Long Beach on the west and south, Bellflower on the north, Cerritos on the northeast, Cypress on the east, and Hawaiian Gardens on the southeast. Major thoroughfares include Lakewood (CA/SR-19), Bellflower, and Del Amo Boulevards and Carson and South Streets. The San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605) runs through the city's eastern regions. Image File history File links Lakewood_seal. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Los Angeles County is a county in California and is the most populous county in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... 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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 660 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lakewood, California Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 660 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lakewood, California Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Los Angeles County is a county in California and is the most populous county in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles County Government  - Mayor Bob Foster Area  - City  65. ... Motto: The Friendly City Growing Together Location of Bellflower in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States State California County Los Angeles Government  - Mayor Scott Larsen  - Mayor Pro Tem Dorothy King  - City Council Ray Smith Raymond Dunton Randy Bomgaars Area  - City 15. ... City nicknames: The Geographic Center of Southern California The Freeway City County: Los Angeles County, California Mayor: Paul W. Bowlen (re-elected 2003) Mayor Pro Tem: Laura Lee (elected 2003) City Council: Jim Edwards (elected 2005) Gloria A. Kappe (re-elected 2003) John F. Crawley (re-elected 2005) Mottos: A... Location of Cypress within Orange County, California. ... Motto: The Little City. ... California State Route 19 (also known as Lakewood Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard) is a major thoroughfare running roughly north-south in the greater Los Angeles area. ... The San Gabriel River Freeway is the name assigned to Interstate 605 (I-605), a major north-south freeway of about 27 miles in length located entirely within Southern California. ... Interstate 605/San Gabriel River Freeway (highlighted in red) Interstate 605 (abbreviated I-605), locally called the San Gabriel River Freeway or The 605, is a major north-south freeway of about 27 miles (43 km) in length located entirely within Southern California, USA. Unlike most other freeways in Southern...


Sometimes called "an instant city" because of its origins—going from lima bean fields in 1950 to a well-developed city in California by 1960—Lakewood is, along with Levittown, New York, the archetypal post-World War II American suburb. The vast majority of its housing stock is small, mass-produced single-story houses on tree-lined streets, sold initially to World War II and Korean War veterans who worked in the factories of Long Beach and the South Bay. Binomial name Phaseolus lunatus L. The lima bean or butter bean, (Phaseolus lunatus, Fabaceae) is grown as a vegetable for its mature and immature beans. ... Welcome to Levittown Sign on Wantagh Ave. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... “Suburbia” redirects here. ... The South Bay and surrounding regions in Southern California The South Bay is a region in the southwest peninsula of Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

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Notable Features

Lakewood's primary thoroughfares are mostly boulevards with landscaped medians, with frontage roads on either side in residential districts. Unlike in most similar configurations, however, access to the main road from the frontage road is only possible from infrequently spaced collector streets. This arrangement, hailed by urban planners of the day, is a compromise between the traditional urban grid and the arrangement of winding "drives" and culs-de-sac that dominates contemporary suburban and exurban design. The Champs Elysees in Paris, France. ... A two-way residential frontage road running parallel to a motorway. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... For the musical group, see Cul de Sac (group). ... Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey to travel to New York City A commuter town, is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commute to a nearby metropolis to earn their livelihood. ...


Lakewood is credited as a pioneer among California cities in services provision. Although it is an incorporated city, it contracts for most municipal services, with most of these provided by Los Angeles County and, to a lesser extent, by other public agencies and private industry. Lakewood was the first city in the nation to contract for all of its municipal services when Lakewood incorporated as a municipality in 1954, making it the nation's first "contract city." Many other Los Angeles suburbs, such as Cerritos and Diamond Bar have adopted the "Lakewood Plan." A contract city is a city in which a city has a contract with a county or parish to provide police services. ... Location of Diamond Bar in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1989-04-18 [2] Government  - Mayor Steve Tye [1] Area  - City  14. ...


Lakewood is the home of the first Denny's Restaurant. In 1953 Harold Butler founded Danny’s Donuts, which was renamed to Denny's Restaurant in 1959. Dennys is the largest full-service family restaurant chain in the United States. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Lakewood was named Sports Illustrated's "Sportstown USA" in 2005 for the State of California. The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ...


Notable Residents/Natives

Kristen Cherie Mann (born August 10, 1983 in Lakewood, California) is a professional basketball player in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA), currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx. ... WNBA may also refer to WNBA-AM, a radio station in Illinois. ... The Spur Posse was a group of high school boys from Lakewood, California, who used a point system to keep track of and compare their sexual conquests. ... Jason Alan Kapono (born February 2, 1981 in Long Beach, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Miami Heat of the NBA. After a storied college career at UCLA, where he was the first Bruin to earn First Team All-Pac-10 honors all four years and... “NBA” redirects here. ... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... This article is about scholarship (noun) and scholarship as a form of financial aid. ... Gregory James Greg LeMond (born June 26, 1961 in Lakewood, California) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three time winner of the Tour de France. ... Charles Edward OBannon (born February 22, 1975 in Lakewood, California) is an American professional basketball player. ... Edward Charles OBannon, Jr. ... Joshua Malik Childress (born June 20, 1983) is an NBA basketball player on the Atlanta Hawks. ... Mayfair Middle/High School is located on 6000 North Woodruff Avenue, Lakewood, California, United States, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District (BUSD). ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA. Founded in 1965, it is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCI or UC Irvine. ... Kyle Elliot Korver[1] (born March 17, 1981 in Lakewood, California) is an American basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class, black family living in Chicago. ... Kirsten Elisha Storms (born April 8, 1984, in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress best known for her role as Isabella Belle Black in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives from 1999 to 2004. ...

Geography

Lakewood is located at 33°50′51″N, 118°7′12″W (33.847365, -118.119889)GR1.


According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 24.6 km² (9.5 mi²). 24.4 km² (9.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (0.74%) is water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ...


Demographics

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 79,345 people, 26,853 households, and 20,542 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,248.7/km² (8,414.8/mi²). There were 27,310 housing units at an average density of 1,118.2/km² (2,896.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 62.67% White, 7.34% Black or African American, 0.60% Native American, 13.51% Asian, 0.62% Pacific Islander, 10.10% from other races, and 5.17% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22.78% of the population. Image:1870 census Lindauer Weber 01. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...


There were 26,853 households out of which 38.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.8% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.5% were non-families. 18.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.95 and the average family size was 3.37. Marriage is an interpersonal relationship with governmental, social, or religious recognition, usually intimate and sexual, and often created as a contract, or through civil process. ...


In the city the population was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 31.1% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 93.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.1 males.


The median income for a household in the city was $58,214, and the median income for a family was $63,342. Males had a median income of $45,447 versus $35,206 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,095. About 5.6% of families and 7.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.3% of those under age 18 and 7.1% of those age 65 or over. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...


Emergency services

Fire protection in Lakewood is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department with ambulance transport by Care Ambulance Service and American Medical Response (AMR). The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department provides law enforcement. Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... American Medical Response, Inc. ... This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriffs Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police Memorial to fallen deputies. ...


Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

The city is served by four school districts.


Several citizens created a group called "The Lakewood Unified School District Organizing Committee ," which aims to establish a "Lakewood Unified School District" [1].


Long Beach Unified School District

Elementary schools serving Lakewood: The Long Beach Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Long Beach, California. ...

  • Cleveland Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Gompers Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Holmes Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • MacArthur Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Madison Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Riley Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Mark Twain Elementary School (Long Beach)

Middle schools serving Lakewood:

K-8 schools serving Lakewood:

High schools serving Lakewood:

David Starr Jordan High School (usually just called Jordon High School) is a public secondary school located in Long Beach, California. ... Lakewood High School is a public secondary school located in the Southern California city of Lakewood. ...

Paramount Unified School District

K-8 schools serving Lakewood: Paramount Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Paramount, California, United States. ...

  • Collins Elementary School (Long Beach)
  • Lakewood Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Mokler Elementary School (Paramount)

High schools serving Lakewood:

Paramount is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

Bellflower Unified School District

Elementary schools serving Lakewood include: The Bellflower Unified School District is a school district in Los Angeles County, California. ...

  • Stephen Foster Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Intensive Learning Center (Lakewood)
  • Jefferson Elementary School (Bellflower)
  • Esther Lindstrom Elementary School (Lakewood)
  • Craig Williams Elementary School (Lakewood)

High schools serving Lakewood include:

Mayfair Middle/High School is located on 6000 North Woodruff Avenue, Lakewood, California, United States, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District (BUSD). ...

ABC Unified School District

Elementary schools serving Lakewood: The ABC Unified School District is a school district that is based in Cerritos, California, United States. ...

Middle schools serving Lakewood: Aerial view of Alohas campus. ... Melbourne Elementary School is located in Lakewood, California as part of the ABC Unified School District. ... Aerial view of Nixons campus. ... Aerial view of Palms campus. ...

  • Haskell Junior High School (Cerritos)
  • Tetzlaff Junior High School (Cerritos)

High schools serving Lakewood:

Artesia High School is a public high school in Lakewood, California, with a student population of around 1,900. ... Cerritos High School is a public school in Cerritos, California, serving grades 9-12. ... Richard Gahr High School, often simply known as Gahr High School, is a public school in Cerritos, California, serving grades 9-12. ... Whitney High School gymnasium Whitney High School is a public school in Cerritos, California, serving grades 7-12. ...

References

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External links

  • Lakewood official website
  • LA County Disaster Communications Service ( DCS ) Lakewood Sheriff Station

Coordinates: 33.847365° N 118.119889° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

  • Lakewood Accountability Action Group official website
  • Lakewood Beautiful website directed at blight and lax code enforcement in Lakewood CA


 

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