City of Paramount

Paramount is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. According to the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 53,733, down from 54,098 at the 2010 census.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lakewood Boulevard station and Columbia Memorial Space Center.

Lakewood Boulevard station

Railway station

Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lakewood Boulevard station is a below-grade light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105, below Lakewood Boulevard, after which the station is named.

Columbia Memorial Space Center

Museum

Photo: NASA, Public domain.

The Columbia Memorial Space Center is a science museum in the Los Angeles area, in the City of Downey, California, US. It is owned and operated by Downey, and open to the general public as a hands-on space museum and activity center. Columbia Memorial Space Center is situated 2½ miles northeast of City of Paramount.

Manuel Dominguez High School

School

Manuel Dominguez High School is a four-year public high school located in Compton, California. It is part of the Compton Unified School District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gateway Cities and Lynwood.

Gateway Cities

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The largely suburban and industrial Gateway Cities of Los Angeles County in Southern California make up the southeastern portion of the county, lying between the City of Los Angeles proper and the border of the county with Orange County.

Lynwood

Photo: Octaviogonz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lynwood is in the Gateway Cities region of Los Angeles County, California. It is probably best known for being the hometown of "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bellflower

Photo: JerryUSAUSAUSA, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bellflower is a city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was founded in 1906 and incorporated on September 3, 1957.

City of Paramount

Type: Locality
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.8976° or 33° 53′ 51″ north

Longitude

-118.1651° or 118° 9′ 55″ west

Elevation

75 feet (23 metres)

Open location code

8553VRXM+2W

GeoNames ID

11789046

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