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The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States. The range runs east-west separating the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley on its south from Santa Clara River Valley to the north and Santa Clarita Valley to the northeast. The Oxnard Plain is to the very west of Santa Susana Mountains. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city 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. ...
Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ...
Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ...
Oat Mountain is a peak of Santa Susana Mountains overlooking San Fernando Valley (near Los Angeles, California) to the south and southeast. ...
A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...
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Santa Susana Mountains © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
The Transverse ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, part of the North American Coast Ranges that run along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city 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: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government - Type Mayor-Council - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo - Governing body City Council Area - City 498. ...
San Fernando Valley from southwestern edge. ...
Simi Valley is an incorporated city located in the extreme southeast corner of Ventura County, California, bordering the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. ...
The Santa Clara River Valley is a rural region of Ventura County in California. ...
The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. ...
The Oxnard Plain The Oxnard Plain is a large coastal plain in southwest Ventura County, California bounded by the Santa Monica Mountains and the Santa Susana Mountains to the east, the Topatopa Mountains to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south and west. ...
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The Newhall Pass separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains to the east. Newhall Pass is the major north-south connection between the San Fernando Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley, and Interstate 5 and a railroad line share Newhall Pass. The Santa Susana Pass (containing SR-118) connects the Simi and San Fernando valleys, and separates the Santa Susana Mountains from Simi Hills to the south. Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park is located in the Simi Hills, just south of the Santa Susana Pass, at the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. The Santa Susana Mountains are not as steep as the San Gabriel Mountains. Fremont Pass is a mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California, USA, located at 34°2043N, 118°3026W. Historically called Newhall Pass and San Fernando Pass, it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains. ...
San Gabriel Mountains The San Gabriel Mountains are located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, USA. The mountain range forms a barrier between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Mojave Desert. ...
Interstate 5 (abbreviated I-5) is the westernmost interstate highway in the continental United States. ...
A lonely winding mountainous road connecting Simi Valley to the San Fernando Valley. ...
State Route 118 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that begins running west to east through Ventura and Los Angeles counties in southern California. ...
The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range in Southern California. ...
The western half of the range lies in Ventura County, and the eastern half of the range lies in Los Angeles County. The southeastern slopes of the Santa Susana Mountains are part of the City of Los Angeles, and housing subdivisions, including Porter Ranch, have been built on the lower slopes of the range. The city of Simi Valley lies southwest of the range. To the north of the range is the fast-growing city of Santa Clarita, and several large subdivisions in unincorporated Los Angeles County, including Lyons Ranch and Newhall Ranch, have been approved for development. The Sunshine Canyon Landfill is at the mountains' eastern end, and several canyons in the northwest corner of the range have been proposed for more landfills. Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ...
Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ...
Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government - Type Mayor-Council - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo - Governing body City Council Area - City 498. ...
Porter Ranch is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, in the northwestern portions of the San Fernando Valley. ...
Simi Valley is an incorporated city located in the extreme southeast corner of Ventura County, California, bordering the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the Greater Los Angeles Area. ...
Location of Santa Clarita in California and Los Angeles County Coordinates: Country United States State California County Los Angeles Incorporated December 15, 1987 Government - Mayor Marsha McLean - Mayor Pro-Tem Bob Kellar - City Council Frank Ferry Laurene Weste TimBen Boydston - City Manager Ken Pulskamp Area - City 47. ...
Albury landfill, Surrey, England A landfill, also known as a dump, is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. ...
The first discovery of oil in California was in Pico Canyon, on the north side of the mountains, The California Star Oil Works, later Chevron, succeeded with Well No. 4. It became famous not only as the first well in California, but also as the longest-producing well in the world, having been capped in September, 1990 after 114 years. Today it is a National Historic Landmark. The surrounding town, Mentryville, is maintained as an oil "ghost town". Unocal Corporation still operates oil wells in the mountains. Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Åukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ...
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is one of the worlds largest global energy companies. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Mentryville was an oil drilling town in the Santa Susana Mountains in California. ...
Union Oil Company of California, dba Unocal was incorporated in California in 1890. ...
The mountains are within the acquisition area for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which operates several parks, including Santa Clarita Woodlands Park, Rocky Peak Park, and Happy Camp Canyon Park in the Santa Susana Mountains through the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority. The City of Los Angeles maintains O'Melveny Park at the eastern end of the mountains. The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open space...
Note: the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, once operated by Rocketdyne, is actually in the Simi Hills, which are to the south of the Santa Susana Mountains. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) is a once prolific rocket and nuclear reactor test facility located 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, California. ...
F-1 rocket engine Rocketdyne is a liquid rocket engine design and production company in the United States. ...
The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range in Southern California. ...
Wildlife The south-facing slopes are mostly covered in chaparral, grassland, and oak savanna. The north-facing slopes are home to magnificent oak woodlands, some of which have been protected in the Santa Clarita Woodlands Park. The mountains are part of the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion. Animal life includes from rattlesnakes to mountain lions. The endangered Californian Condor also live in these mountains. Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, USA, that is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. ...
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Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ...
California oak woodland is a plant community found throughout the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of California and northwestern Baja California. ...
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of central and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California (Mexico), located on the west coast of North America. ...
An ecoregion, sometimes called a bioregion, is a relatively large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. ...
Species 27 species; see list of rattlesnake species and subspecies. ...
Binomial name Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) The puma (Puma concolor) is a type of large cat found in North, Central and South America. ...
Species Vultur gryphus Gymnogyps californianus Note that Condor is the NATO reporting name for the Russian/Soviet Antonov An-124 transport aircraft. ...
 Scrubland in Aliso Canyon, Santa Susana Mountains Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 892 KB) Summary Scrubland in Aliso Canyon, Santa Susana Mountains, California: December 24, 2005. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 892 KB) Summary Scrubland in Aliso Canyon, Santa Susana Mountains, California: December 24, 2005. ...
Climate The mountains have a mild to humid, dry summers and are prone to wildfires. Though not as steep as San Gabriel Mountains, winters are wet, tepid to cold winters, and snow occurs in some higher areas, such as Oat Mountain, though only cold winter storms are enough to receive plentiful snow in the area. Summer is one of the four seasons of the year. ...
Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson. ...
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German-Dutch physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), who proposed it in 1724. ...
Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ...
Oat Mountain is a peak of Santa Susana Mountains overlooking San Fernando Valley (near Los Angeles, California) to the south and southeast. ...
Peaks The highest peaks in the range are Oat Mountain (1,142 m; 3,747 feet), Mission Point (845 m; 2,771 feet), Rocky Peak (827 m; 2,714 feet), and Sand Rock Peak (765 m; 2,511 feet). Oat Mountain is a peak of Santa Susana Mountains overlooking San Fernando Valley (near Los Angeles, California) to the south and southeast. ...
Mission Point , also known as Mission Peak by locals, is a peak in the Santa Susana Mountains. ...
Rocky Peak is the name of the 3rd highest point in the Santa Susana Mountains, which overlook both Chatsworth and Simi Valley, in Southern California. ...
Sand Rock Peak is a mountain that overlooks Newhall and the rest of Santa Clarita Valley to the northeast. ...
See also Nearby mountain ranges The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range in Southern California. ...
San Gabriel Mountains The San Gabriel Mountains are located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, USA. The mountain range forms a barrier between the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Mojave Desert. ...
The Sierra Pelona Mountains are a rocky mountain range of the Transverse Ranges in Southern California. ...
Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. ...
The Verdugo Mountains are an offshoot range of the San Gabriel Mountains and are located in Los Angeles County, California. ...
The Topatopa Mountains are located in Ventura County in southern California, north of Santa Paula. ...
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