For whatever reason, I’ve always placed LA in Orange County. A recent NTN trivia question led to discussion of this matter, and a web search follow up leaves me still confused. On the Orange county website, a link list of cities provides sites for both LA and LA county. The LA county website also lists LA as a local city. There has to be a few dopers now or once in that area who can straighten me out on this one. Please? Thanks a bunch.
Here’s a list of towns in Orange Co.
No L.A.
The county line cuts from the river just east of Long Beach to just northwest of La Habra before turning due west. It goes west till just before Sleepy Hollow where it turns SE through the middle of Santa Ana mountains. Then it turns towards the sea Hwy 74. It reaches the sea at the NW edge of Camp Joseph H. Pendleton U.S.M.C.
I love my AAA road map!
Thanks, Osiris . The LA County site was more emphatic than the Orange County site about including LA. The most I was really expecting was some kind of concurrent jurisdiction civics answer.
The City of Las Angeles is in Los Angeles County. What might be called the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area sort of sprawls over Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
When I lived in California in the sixties there was a common saying that when leaving LA southwards (into Orange County) it was necessary to set your clocks back fifty years. :).
It used to be that all of Southern California was Los Angeles County. But that was in 1850. San Diego was soon created. And eventually the area got divided up smaller and smaller.
Orange is a relatively new county by California standards. There hasn’t been a new county in California since Imperial was created back in the Teens.
The county lines all made sense back in the 19th Century. For the most part now, they are arbitrary and the counties’ populations vary widely.
From itty-bitty Alpine (a few thousand) to Los Angeles (about 9 million)