North Hills | |
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Neighborhood of Los Angeles | |
Location within Los Angeles/San Fernando Valley | |
Coordinates: 34°14′08″N 118°29′06″W / 34.23556°N 118.48500°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Los Angeles |
City | Los Angeles |
Elevation | 841 ft (256 m) |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 56,946 |
Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
• Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
ZIP code | 91343 |
Area code(s) | 818 and 747 |
North Hills is a community in the north-central San Fernando Valley, and within the City of Los Angeles, California.
North Hills was originally an agricultural community known as Mission Acres. After World War II, the newly developed suburban community was renamed Sepulveda until the latter 1990s.
Northridge is to the west, Panorama City is to the east, Van Nuys is to the south, and Granada Hills to the north.
Main thoroughfares include: Sepulveda Boulevard and Roscoe Boulevard; Hayvenhurst, Woodley, and Haskell Avenues; and Lassen, Plummer, and Nordhoff Streets. North Hills is bounded by Balboa Boulevard and Bull Creek ("the wash") on the west, Devonshire and Lassen Street on the north, the Pacoima Wash on the east, and Roscoe Boulevard on the south.
Overlapping Area codes 747 and 818 serve the area. The North Hills ZIP code is 91343.
North Hills is home to the large Veterans Administration Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center campus, which serves veterans in the San Fernando Valley, with residential and outpatient care.
In the late 18th and 19th century the site was part of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España lands, until 1846 when it became part of the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando of Andrés Pico, near the Andrés Pico Adobe. Mission Acres was an agricultural community made by early developers who created 1 acre plots for agricultural activities, with irrigation supplied by the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913.