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San Fernando is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 23,564. The city was named for the Catholic mission there, Mission San Fernando Rey de Espaņa. It is completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, with the districts of Sylmar to the north, Lake View Terrace to the east, Pacoima to the south, and Mission Hills to the west. It is served by the Golden State, Foothill, Ronald Reagan, and San Diego freeways.While most of the towns in the surrounding San Fernando Valley agreed to annexation by Los Angeles in the 1910s, eager to tap the bountiful water supply provided by the newly opened Los Angeles Aqueduct, San Fernando's abundant groundwaterGroundwater is any water found below the land surface. It is found in aquifers, in the pore spaces of rocks, in unconsolidated sediments, as permafrost, and as soil moisture. Groundwater flows to the surface naturally at springs and seeps and can form oas supplies allowed it to remain a separate city. Even as the San Fernando Valley transformed itself from an agricultural area to a suburbanSuburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. The form of the word may tempt one to think that "suburb" one in the decades after World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, San Fernando retained its independence.
As with much of the San Fernando Valley east of the San Diego Freeway, the city of San Fernando has become relatively impoverished in recent years; middle-class whites, who dominated the area in the 1950s, have since left for other parts of the San Fernando Valley, as well as the Santa ClaritaThe Santa Clarita Valley is part of the Santa Clara River valley, squeezed between the San Gabriel and Santa Susana Mountains to the South and the Sierra Pelona/ Liebre Mountains/ Topatopa Mountains to the North. Downstream of Santa Clarita, it is called and AntelopeThe Antelope Valley consists of northern Los Angeles County and the southeastern portion of Kern County, California. It lies north of the San Gabriel Mountains and east of the Tehachapis in the Mojave Desert and is at least 2,200 square miles (5,700 km˛) Valleys to the north. The area's population is now almost completely of MexicanThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co origin.
1 Geography
San Fernando is located at 34°17'14" North, 118°26'20" West (34.287251, -118.438836) 1The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. These sources are cited within the thousands of articles which link to this page..
According to the United States Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te, the city has a total area of 6.2 km˛ (2.4 mi˛). 6.2 km˛ (2.4 mi˛) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
