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FIPS code. 06-40340. GNIS feature IDs. 1660865, 2411581. Website. www .lapuente .org. La Puente ( Spanish for "The Bridge") [7] is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city had a population of 39,816 at the 2010 census and is approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of downtown Los Angeles .
Rancho La Puente was a ranch in the southern San Gabriel Valley that measured just under 49,000 acres (200 km 2 ), and remained intact from its establishment in the late 1700s as an outpost of Mission San Gabriel until about 1870. By modern landmarks, the ranch extended from San Gabriel River on the west to just west of the 57 Freeway on the ...
To cross the river, the expedition built a rough bridge, which gave the name La Puente to today's San Gabriel Valley city, and hills to the south are called the Puente Hills. A few years later, a mission was established near the river crossing. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel c. 1900. The trail in the foreground is part of the original El Camino ...
The City of Industry is located 17.6 miles (28.4 km) east of Los Angeles. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.07 square miles (31.3 km 2 ), of which 11.79 square miles (30.5 km 2) of it is land and 0.28 square miles (0.73 km 2) of it (2.32%) is water. Climate data for City of Industry, California.
Puente Hills Mall, located in City of Industry, California, United States, is a major regional shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. It is most notable for serving as the filming site for the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall for the 1985 movie Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd .
Puente 13. Puente 13 ( P13 [6]) is a street gang in La Puente, California. They are Sureños. [7] [8] They are described as Mafia related [9] or Mexican mafia related. [10] They were formed c. 1953 as the Bridgetown Gentlemen ( puente is Spanish "bridge"), [10] or "Old Town Puente". Then they dropped the "Old Town", later adding the "-13" that ...
A map of the Los Angeles Basin's oil and gas fields Los Angeles City Oil Field in 1905. Accumulations of oil and gas occur almost wholly within strata of the younger sequence and in areas that are within or adjacent to the coastal belt. The Puente formation has proved to be the most notable reservoir for petroleum in the basin.
April 4, 1985. The La Puente Historic District, near Los Ojos, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. According to its NRHP nomination, The village of La Puente is one of the best-preserved examples of a linear village—the most common village type of Hispanic settlement in New Mexico in the nineteenth century.