• Thumbnail for Southern California
    Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state...
    81 KB (6,634 words) - 06:11, 14 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal[a]) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded...
    181 KB (16,516 words) - 13:17, 24 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of largest cities in California by population
    This is a list of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. state of California ranked by population, based on estimates for July 1, 2024, by the United States...
    56 KB (332 words) - 04:32, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of colleges and universities in California
    of California, Los Angeles was founded in 1882 as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. It joined the University of California system...
    44 KB (239 words) - 01:37, 14 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for January 2025 Southern California wildfires
    National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) warned that conditions in Southern California fostered "above normal significant fire potential". That same day...
    248 KB (21,544 words) - 02:02, 7 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for California
    regulated by the California Coastal Commission. California is traditionally separated into Northern California and Southern California, divided by a straight...
    279 KB (24,140 words) - 03:08, 2 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California Edison
    Southern California Edison (SCE), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electric utility company for much of Southern California...
    52 KB (4,689 words) - 22:35, 26 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California freeways
    A vast network of interconnected freeways in the megaregion of Southern California serves a population of over 23 million people. The Master Plan of Metropolitan...
    42 KB (4,116 words) - 00:02, 5 July 2025
  • "It Never Rains in Southern California" is a 1972 song jointly written and composed by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood and sung by Hammond, a British-born...
    10 KB (551 words) - 20:35, 1 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for USC Trojans football
    The USC Trojans football program represents the University of Southern California in the sport of American football. The Trojans compete in the Football...
    134 KB (12,010 words) - 03:18, 7 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of earthquakes in California
    Zone Act California earthquake forecast Field Act Geography of California Geology and geological history of California Southern California Earthquake...
    29 KB (1,446 words) - 02:51, 6 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California Logistics Airport
    Southern California Logistics Airport (IATA: VCV, ICAO: KVCV, FAA LID: VCV), also known as Victorville Airport, is a public airport located in the city...
    17 KB (1,693 words) - 03:33, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for United States District Court for the Southern District of California
    The United States District Court for the Southern District of California (in case citations, S.D. Cal.) is a federal court in the Ninth Circuit (except...
    57 KB (1,010 words) - 20:55, 4 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of California area codes
    The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and...
    15 KB (343 words) - 21:52, 23 July 2025
  • California Southern University is a private for-profit online university in Chandler, Arizona. It is part of the American InterContinental University...
    11 KB (870 words) - 04:21, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Riverside, California
    of Riverside County, California, United States. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River in Southern California. It is the most populous...
    85 KB (7,267 words) - 15:51, 5 August 2025
  • Thumbnail for Geography of California
    Northern and Southern California, although the boundary between the two is not well defined. San Francisco is decidedly a Northern California city and Los...
    33 KB (3,922 words) - 11:39, 11 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California Gas Company
    The Southern California Gas Company (trading as SoCalGas) is a utility company based in Los Angeles, California, and a subsidiary of Sempra. It is the...
    21 KB (2,231 words) - 06:32, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
    up in southern California. He attended Cypress High School in Cypress, California, where he graduated in 1997. He later graduated from Southern Utah University...
    86 KB (7,148 words) - 22:01, 6 August 2025
  • The Southern California News Group (SCNG), formerly the San Gabriel Valley News Group and the Los Angeles News Group, is an umbrella group of local daily...
    11 KB (1,190 words) - 15:42, 24 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for California Southern Railroad
    The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California. It was organized...
    27 KB (3,209 words) - 00:27, 1 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California faults
    Pacific plate of oceanic crust. Southern California lies at the southern end of this block, where the Southern California faults create a complex and even...
    6 KB (546 words) - 14:41, 3 May 2025
  • of Southern California, parts of Arizona and Nevada, as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, and as far south as Baja California, Mexico...
    68 KB (6,352 words) - 16:12, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California Railway Museum
    The Southern California Railway Museum (SCRM, reporting mark OERX), formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum, is a railroad museum in Perris...
    34 KB (2,939 words) - 23:25, 15 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bakersfield, California
    the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which...
    137 KB (12,269 words) - 16:12, 7 August 2025
  • (officially Vanguard University of Southern California) is a private Protestant university in Costa Mesa, California. It was the first four-year college...
    13 KB (1,086 words) - 07:26, 25 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for 2018 Southern California mudflows
    A series of mudflows occurred in Southern California in early January 2018, particularly affecting areas northwest of Montecito in Santa Barbara County...
    25 KB (2,172 words) - 03:45, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Southern California Bight
    The Southern California Bight is a 692-kilometer-long (430 mi) stretch of curved coastline that runs along the West Coast of the United States and Mexico...
    20 KB (2,053 words) - 07:27, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Channel Islands (California)
    eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. They define the Santa Barbara Channel...
    48 KB (4,956 words) - 16:46, 31 July 2025
  • the California Vowel Shift, was first noted by linguists in the 1980s in southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. This...
    35 KB (3,658 words) - 16:34, 6 July 2025