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Mira Loma (Spanish for "Look Hill"), now officially a neighborhood of Jurupa Valley, was a former census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. Its population was 21,930 in the 2010 census, up from 17,617 in the 2000 census.
Residents of the area had previously voted on incorporation in 1992, but rejected that measure, along with a competing ballot measure that would have incorporated Mira Loma. [4] Jurupa Valley was the latest city in the state of California to incorporate until 2024 when Mountain House incorporated in San Joaquin County.
Tires from their Los Angeles factory were tested on the track, which later became Uniroyal. In the 1960s Dodge purchased the test track from Uniroyal and operated it for 10 years. A faint trace of the runways and track can still be seen from the air, just east of California State Route 14 and just south of West Ave B. A water treatment plant ...
Gordon Stewart Northcott was born in Bladworth, Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in British Columbia.He moved to Los Angeles, California with his parents in 1924. Two years later, at the age of 19, Northcott asked his father to purchase a plot of land in the community of Wineville, located in Riverside County, where he built a chicken ranch and a house with the help of his father and his nephew ...
The land was then bought by Los Angeles County. The airfield was converted to the Mira Loma Detention Center. In 2012, Los Angeles County closed the detention center. [22] Los Angeles County is currently collaborating with the City of Lancaster, the faith-based community, and the non-profit community to convert the facility into a winter ...
Melvin X died on June 6, 1970, near Mira Loma, California. He was found at 1 p.m. on June 7 in the driver's seat of a 19 sedan registered to Elaine Parker, also a student at UCLA. The sedan was discovered parked at an abandoned farm, 1 mi (1.6 km) south of the San Bernardino Freeway and 150 ft (46 m) west of Etiwanda Avenue. It was said to be ...
California at No. 2 Edgewood. DIVISION 5. Westminster at No. 1 Los Amigos. Golden Valley at No. 16 Savanna. Orange at No. 9 Garey. Northview at No. 8 Norwalk. Brentwood at No. 5 Rio Mesa ...
The only state prison located in the county, it is also referenced as Los Angeles County State Prison, CSP-Los Angeles County, and CSP-LAC. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Only occasionally is the prison referred to as Lancaster State Prison , which was particularly avoided in 1992 partly to ease the stigma for Lancaster.