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History · Desert View Highlands

Desert View Highlands’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Desert View Highlands. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Desert View Highlands is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 2,676 at the 2020 census, up from 2,360 at the 2010 census. It is surrounded by the City of Palmdale.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,360 to 2,676 (+13%). Half of its homes were built before 1966.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Desert View Highlands yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Desert View Highlands’s history is told.

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Famous people close to Desert View Highlands

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Paul WalkerPaul WalkerGlendale · 29 miTBTim BurtonBurbank · 29 miSally FieldSally FieldPasadena · 30 miJulia ChildJulia ChildPasadena · 30 miPaula AbdulPaula AbdulSan Fernando · 26 miSBSophia BushPasadena · 30 mi
By decade

Desert View Highlands, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Desert View Highlands is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Desert View Highlands has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cedar Avenue Complex in Lancaster, 7.6 miles away.

Desert View Highlands and the nearest listed places

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Cedar Avenue ComplexAntelope Valley Indian MuseumBolton Hall

Closest to Desert View Highlands

Cedar Avenue ComplexLancaster · District7.6miAntelope Valley Indian MuseumLake Los Angeles · Built 197917.8miBolton HallLos Angeles · Built 191324.6mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Cedar Avenue Complex’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Desert View Highlands?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Desert View Highlands’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Palmdale📜 Lancaster📜 Santa Clarita📜 La Cañada Flintridge
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