Rancho Dominguez is a former settlement, now an unincorporated community, in Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010 U.S. Census, the county had a population of 9,818,605, making it the most populous county in the United States. Los Angeles County alone is more populous than 42 individual U.S. states...

, California

California

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. It was located near East Rancho Dominguez. Rancho Dominguez is located between Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

 and Carson, California

Carson, California

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The Communities of Unincorporated Rancho Dominguez are East Rancho Dominguez, West Rancho Dominguez and Rancho Dominguez. Originally Rancho Dominguez contained the cities of Compton, California

Compton, California

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, Carson, California

Carson, California

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 & a portion of North Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

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History

The entire Rancho Dominguez area has a rich history. Originally Rancho Dominguez was a small part of the Spanish land grant Rancho San Pedro

Rancho San Pedro

Rancho San Pedro was one of the first California land grants, and the first to win a patent from the United States. The land grant was validated by the Mexican government at in 1828, and a US patent validating was issued in 1858...

 from the King of Spain in 1784. The Dominguez Rancho Adobe

Dominguez Rancho Adobe

The Dominguez Rancho Adobe is California Historical Landmark Number 152, and in 1976 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior....

 Museum on South Alameda Avenue is the historic ranch home of land grantee Juan Dominguez and Manuel Dominguez

Manuel Dominguez

Manuel Dominguez , born at the Mission San Juan Capistrano in Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain, and was the heir to the vast Rancho San Pedro land grant.-Juan Jose Dominguez:...

, the men for whom the area is named. The Dominguez family lived in the home until the 1920s and it is now a retirement home for Claretin Catholic priests.

In the late 1800s most of the southern part of Rancho Dominguez and the land leading down to the Los Angeles Harbor was acquired by the railroad industry. Today these railroad tracks are used for the same purpose, and is a valuable tie between the Port of Los Angeles

Port of Los Angeles

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 and Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

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Rancho Dominguez was home to California State University, Dominguez Hills

California State University, Dominguez Hills

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 but when the City of Carson gained cityhood in 1967, it incorporated the Dominguez Hills section of Rancho Dominguez.

Present day

The Los Angeles County Sheriffs from the Carson's Sheriff Station patrol West Rancho Dominguez & Rancho Dominguez. East Rancho Dominguez is patrolled by the Lynwood Sheriff Station.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

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 (LASD) operates the Carson Station in Carson

Carson, California

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, serving Rancho Dominguez.

Annexation efforts

The city of Compton has tried multiple times to annex East Rancho Dominguez known as East Compton and shares Compton's zip code of 90221. West Rancho Dominguez shares that same zip code but Compton has no interest to annex that part of unincorporated Los Angeles County due to a lot of Environment Waste type of Industry/business in that region. The Community of Rancho Dominguez south of Compton is a Warehousing and Transportation Industry area that collects great tax revenue for the County of Los Angeles.