Lancaster,
California,
USA, is the eighth-largest city in
Los Angeles County and the 9th fastest growing city in the United States. Lancaster is located approximately 70 miles (112.5km) north (by road travel) of the
City of Los Angeles in
Southern California’s Antelope Valley. It is separated from the
Los Angeles Basin by the
San Gabriel Mountain Range to the south and from
Bakersfield and the
San Joaquin Valley by the
Tehachapi Mountain Range to the north. The City of Lancaster has grown from 37,000 residents at the time of incorporation in
1977, to an estimated 143,818 residents in
2007, and is the second-largest city on the California side of the
Mojave Desert.
As of the
2005 population estimate, the
Palmdale / Lancaster, CA Urbanized Area (a US Census Bureau defined term) has a population of 589,043.
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