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Canoga Park, Los Angeles

Neighborhood in California, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley. Before the Mexican–American War, the neighborhood was part of a rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided, with part of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912. It was annexed by Los Angeles in 1917 and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1, 1931, after Canoga, New York.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Canoga Park, Los Angeles” as neighborhood in California, US. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1917, 1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Canoga, Park and Angeles can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as neighborhood in California, US. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1917 and 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Canoga Park, Los Angeles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.