Leona Valley, California

Leona Valley is an unincorporated town located in the geographic Leona Valley of Los Angeles County, California, just west of Palmdale. The town has a population of about 2,200.

Geography

Leona Valley is located about convert|10|mi|km|-1 west of the Palmdale Civic Center in Southern California. Leona Valley town is located in its namesake, Leona Valley. This valley is a long narrow valley separated from the Antelope Valley by the San Andreas fault ridge, known as Ritter Ridge, so named after one of the settlers from Nebraska in the 1880s. The valley is about a mile wide and convert|25|mi|km|0 in length. The geographic Leona Valley is also home to the towns of Lake Hughes and Lake Elizabeth.

Leona Valley residents enjoy a different setting from the desert landscapes of the surrounding Antelope Valley communities. This quiet community displays beautiful rolling hills decorated with green farmland, cherry orchards, and horse barns. This ideally located community enables its residents to enjoy the best of two worlds.

The ZIP Code is 93551 and the community is inside area code 661.

About Leona Valley

Leona Valley is best known for its agriculture, particularly cherries. The town of Leona Valley holds its annual "Leona Valley Cherry Festival" in honor of its agricultural heritage.

Leona Valley's history can be best described as land abundant with cattle ranches. In the mid-1800s, after the departure of the Shoshone Indians – the area's original inhabitants – immigrants from Spain and Mexico quickly established themselves within the land. The majority of the Spanish and the Mexican immigrants were primarily interested in the land in order to establish cattle ranches. During the 1880s, the ranches were broken up into smaller homesteads by farmers from Germany, France and the state of Nebraska.

Although the majority of those homesteads were sold and subdivided by developers, Leona Valley presently maintains an image of beauty and splendor with its large custom homes situated on vast area.

External links

* [http://www.cherriesupic.com/ Leona Valley Cherry Growers Association]
* [http://leonavalleytowncouncil.org/default.aspx Leona Valley Town Council]
*Leona Valley AVA
* [http://www.lvgymkhana.org/ Leona Valley Gymkhana]