Huntington Park

History

The first European to arrive to the area was Francisco Salvatore Lugo. Named for prominent industrialist Henry E. Huntington, Huntington Park was incorporated in 1906 as a streetcar suburb on the Los Angeles Railway for workers in the rapidly expanding industries to the southeast of downtown Los Angeles. To this day, about 30% of its residents work at factories in nearby Vernon and Commerce. The stretch of Pacific Boulevard in downtown Huntington Park was a major commercial district serving the city's largely working-class residents as well as being the retail hub of Southeast Los Angeles County. As with most of the other cities along the corridor stretching along the Los Angeles River to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park was an almost exclusively white community during most of its history; Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue, which were fiercely defended segregation lines in the 1950s, separated it from black areas. The changes that shaped Los Angeles from the late 1970s onward—the decline of American manufacturing that began in the 1970s; the rapid growth of newer suburbs in Orange County, the eastern San Gabriel, western San Fernando and Conejo valleys; the collapse of the aerospace and defense industry at the end of the Cold War; and the implosion of the Southern California real estate boom in the early 1990s—resulted in the wholesale departure of virtually all of the white population of Huntington Park by the mid-1990s. The vacuum was filled almost entirely by two groups of Latinos: upwardly mobile families eager to leave the barrios of East Los Angeles, and recent Mexican immigrants. Today, Pacific Boulevard is once again a thriving commercial strip, serving as a major retail center for working-class residents of southeastern Los…

Geography

Before California abolished judicial townships (some time after 1960), Huntington Park was located in San Antonio Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Cities surrounding Huntington Park include Bell, Cudahy, Los Angeles, Maywood, South Gate, and Vernon. Huntington Park is also bordered by the unincorporated communities of Walnut Park to the south and Florence-Firestone to the west. On average, there are 286 sunny days per year in Huntington Park, California. Annually the snowfall is 0 inches. The July high is around 82 degrees. The January low is 48. As of 2015 the average high temperatures have risen ranging from the low to mid 90s (°F).

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  56,848
• Black Phoebe

  Sayornis nigricans (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  47,477
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  45,001
• Allen's Hummingbird

  Selasphorus sasin (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  40,925
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  39,772
• Yellow-rumped Warbler

  Setophaga coronata (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  35,630
• Lesser Goldfinch

  Spinus psaltria (Say, 1822) · Aves
  35,255
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  34,904

Largest nearby schools

• Downey High
  High · Downey · 4,063 students · 23.4:1 ratio
• Paramount High
  High · Paramount · 3,737 students · 20.5:1 ratio
• Warren (Earl) High
  High · Downey · 3,437 students · 23.7:1 ratio
• Mayfair High
  High · Lakewood · 2,578 students · 22.6:1 ratio
• Bell Senior High
  High · Bell · 2,351 students · 22:1 ratio
• James A. Garfield Senior High
  High · Los Angeles · 2,247 students · 17.6:1 ratio
• El Rancho High
  High · Pico Rivera · 2,244 students · 24.7:1 ratio
• Jordan High
  High · Long Beach · 2,241 students · 21.5:1 ratio

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