History · Walnut Park

Walnut Park’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Walnut Park. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

2old images & papers

1recent photos

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Walnut Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States, adjacent to Florence-Graham, Huntington Park and South Gate. The population was 15,214 at the 2020 census, a drop from 15,966 at the 2010 census.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 15,966 to 15,214 (-5%). Half of its homes were built before 1938.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Walnut Park 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.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below

1920s2 items · Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Walnu…Map

1930–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.

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Walnut Park, decade by decade

1920s2 papers

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Walnut Park, Los Angeles County, California, 1926, Plate 0001

MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Walnut Park, Los Angeles Co…1926

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Walnut Park, Los Angeles County, California, 1926, Plate 0002

MapSanborn Fire Insurance Map from Walnut Park, Los Angeles Co…1926

1930s–
1990s

Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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