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History of Santa Clarita, California

Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County California, United States. As of the 2005 California Department of Finance estimate, the city population was 167,954. The current population is calculated at 175,314 according to city population signs around the city but it is likely the population is even higher than that as the city continues to grow rapidly. Including unicorporated areas of the Santa Clarita Valley, the population is estimated at over 200, 000. It is located about 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles and occupies most of the Santa Clarita Valley. It is a notable example of a U.S. edge city or boomburb. The Federal Bureau of Investigation rates it as the sixth safest city in the United States with at least 100,000 inhabitants. (Nearby Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks in Ventura County traditionally alternate between the first and second spots on the list.)

Santa Clarita was incorporated in 1987 as the union of several previously existing communities, including Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus, Valencia, and portions of Castaic, all of which are the grounds of the former Rancho San Francisco. Its principal boundaries are the Golden State Freeway and Antelope Valley Freeway; their merger in Newhall Pass at the city's southernmost point gives Santa Clarita its distinctive triangular appearance on the map.

Santa Clarita's most notable attractions are the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park located just outside the city limits in unincorporated Los Angeles County, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), located in Valencia. For more information please visit Santa Clarita California Real Estate.