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Quartz Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 10,912 at the 2010 census, up from 9,890 at the 2000 census. The name is also shared with the neighboring district areas of its border cities, Palmdale, and Lancaster. Quartz Hill was once home to the Quartz Hill Airport.
Description: This map shows the unincorporated and incorporated areas in Los Angeles County, California.. Quartz Hill - unincorporated - is highlighted in red. I created it in Inkscape using data from the Los Angeles County Website (Los Angeles County Incorporated Area and District Map ().
The basic layout of Quartz Hill High School's 80-acre (320,000 m 2) campus is a courtyard surrounded by three quads and athletic buildings, [citation needed] a design that is typical of high schools in Southern California.
The 1962 AOPA Airport Directory described Quartz Hill Airport as having two gravel runways: 2,640-foot (805 m) Runway 4/22 and 2,190-foot (668 m) Runway 13/31. It listed the operator as Antelope Valley Aeronautical. The last photo of Quartz Hill Airport is a 1974 aerial view. It showed a total of 20 single-engine aircraft parked near a Quonset ...
The Westside Union School District in Southern California serves the western parts of Palmdale and Lancaster and their immediate suburbs, including Quartz Hill, Del Sur, Leona Valley, Antelope Acres, and Neenach. It enrolls transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.
The Woodbury Company consolidated several local claims into the Ophir Hill Mine, but they mismanaged their finances and in 1852 were forced to sell the business at auction. [5] It was purchased by John P. Rush and the Empire Quartz Hill Co. [6]: 27 The Empire Mining Co. was incorporated in 1854, after John Rush was bought out.
Gold Hill in Grass Valley, California, was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold [2] in California. While quartz gold was also found in other areas of Nevada County, California during the same time, it is this find near Wolf Creek that led to quartz-mining frenzy and subsequent creation of the Gold Country quartz-mining industry.
City Terrace is an unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, east of Downtown Los Angeles.It contains City Terrace Elementary School, Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School, Esteban Torres High School, Harrison Elementary School, William R. Anton Elementary School, Hammel Street Elementary School, Anthony Quinn Library, City Terrace Library, and City Terrace Park.