The city of Torrance was formally incorporated in May 1921, the townsite initially being bounded by Western Avenue on the east, Del Amo Boulevard on the north, Crenshaw Boulevard on the west, and on the south by Plaza Del Amo east of where it meets Carson Street, and by Carson Street west of where it meets Plaza Del Amo. The resulting town was founded in October 1912 and named after Mr.

They purchased part of an old Spanish land grant and hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. In the early 1900s, real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance and other investors saw the value of creating a mixed industrial- residential community south of Los Angeles. It was later divided in 1846, with Governor Pío Pico granting Rancho de los Palos Verdes to José Loreto and Juan Capistrano Sepulveda in the Alta California territory of independent Mexico. In 1784, the Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro (including today's Torrance), a tract of over 75,000 acres (300 km 2) in the Province of Las Californias of New Spain, to soldier Juan José Domínguez. ĭon Manuel Domínguez, a signer of the Californian Constitution and owner of Rancho San Pedro, which included all of modern-day Torrance.įor thousands of years, the area where Torrance is located was part of the Tongva Native American homeland. It also has the second-highest percentage of residents of Japanese ancestry in California (8.9%), after the neighboring city of Gardena. Torrance is the birthplace of the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO). The city consistently ranks among the safest cities in Los Angeles County. Torrance was incorporated in 1921, and as of the 2010 census has a population of 145,438 residents. The city is 21 miles (34 km) miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles and is bordered by Gardena and Lawndale to the north, Lomita to the east, Rolling Hills and Palos Verdes Estates to the south, and Redondo Beach and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Torrance has 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of beaches on the Pacific Ocean and a moderate year-round climate with an average rainfall of 12 inches (300 mm) per year. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay region of the metropolitan area. Torrance is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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