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West Rancho Dominguez

West Rancho Dominguez, formerly known as West Compton and also known as East Gardena, is an unincorporated census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 5,670 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “West Compton”, “West Rancho Dominguez, CA”, and “West Rancho Dominguez, California”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hustler Casino and Compton/Woodley Airport.

Casino
Larry Flynt's is a cardroom in , approximately 15 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles. It is owned by El Dorado LF, LLC. the successor company after founder Larry Flynt's death.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a public airport in , southern Los Angeles County, , 2 miles southwest of Downtown Compton. It is the oldest continuously operating airport in the Los Angeles basin. is situated 1½ miles east of West Rancho Dominguez.

Bus station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a busway station located in , . It is situated between the station and the Harbor Gateway Transit Center on the J Line, a bus rapid transit route which runs between , and San Pedro as part of the Metro Busway system.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gardena and Athens.

Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city of about 60,000 people in the of Los Angeles County in .

Suburb
is an unincorporated community in the region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of . is situated 2 miles north of West Rancho Dominguez.

Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large region of made up of the neighborhoods south of This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.

West Rancho Dominguez

Latitude
33.89391° or 33° 53′ 38″ north
Longitude
-118.27063° or 118° 16′ 14″ west
Population
5,670
Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)
Open location code
8553VPVH+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150968506
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5407927
Wiki­data ID
Q1972817
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“West Rancho Dominguez” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Catalan: “West Compton”
  • Cebuano: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Chechen: “Вест-Ранчо-Домингес”
  • Chinese: “West Compton”
  • Chinese: “西蘭喬多明格茲”
  • Croatian: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Dutch: “West Compton”
  • French: “West Compton”
  • French: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • German: “West Compton”
  • German: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Gilaki: “وست رانچؤ دؤمينگز”
  • Irish: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Italian: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Ladin: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Malagasy: “West Rancho Dominguez, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West Compton”
  • Newari: “वेस्ट कम्प्टन (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “वेस्ट कम्प्टन, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “वेस्ट कम्प्टन”
  • Persian: “رانچو دومینگز غربی، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “رانچو دومینگز غربی”
  • Polish: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Portuguese: “West Compton”
  • Serbian: “Вест Ранчо Домингез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Rancho Dominguez, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رانچو دومینقز غربی، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “West Compton (California)”
  • Spanish: “West Compton”
  • Swedish: “West Rancho Dominguez, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Tatar: “Вест-Ранчо-Домингес”
  • Turkish: “West Rancho Dominguez”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Ранчо-Домінгес”
  • Volapük: “West Compton”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Beulahland Missionary Baptist Church and Gardena Commercial Drive Test Center.

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