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Hello All,
Added a revision to the history section of the page. Stated when other "regular" public schools were established, to emphasize growth of the city. Added comment regarding, Highland high school and Knight high school. Thank you!
avnative is right. Mr. Lane, kukuman, I stand corrected.
Therefore, I have corrected the information and placed only verifiable information so that it stands correct for the time being until further notice.
This page is also getting too long and the warning message is appearing, so I have shortened it.
Respectfully, Anon
May God bless you, anon. To say and do what you have presented here and on the Palmdale page is hard to do, and harder to say. You have my admiration! Looking forward to your constructive, thoughtful, factual edits around the Wiki in the future. . .
(You'll also notice I archived all previous talk on this page - please see the header at the top of this page.)
Happy Trails to you! -- avnative 19:22, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
Nice, looks much better and more accurate. Kudos anon. --
Kukuman 01:01, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I agree it looks much better now. One thing that concerns me, though, is all those red links in the list of nearby communities. Some time ago, a bot was created that generated Wikipedia articles out of publicly available U.S. census data. That process created articles for several thousand cities and towns in the U.S., most of which no human editor had laid a finger on. The resulting basic article about each place has provided a site where additional details about it can be added. The coverage was pretty thorough, so I'm surprised to see so many red links. Does anyone know the cause? Are some of these places (Neenach, Pearblossom, etc.) just informal names for areas that the census treats as being part of Palmdale or some other larger city? JamesMLane 05:41, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Brief Info on them are as follows:
Pearblossom, 93553: http://www.citylinkz.com/California/Pearblossom.html - note: population given on website is for Los Angeles County. Pearblossom truthfully only has about 5,000 residents. http://www.geocities.com/pearblossomca/ Pearblossom Hwy. (SR-138) is named for this town.
Llano is the town next door between Pearblossom and Pinon Hills. Llano zip is 93544.
Agua Dulce, 91350: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?zip=91350
Antelope Acres, Del Sur, & Neenach share 93536 ( also shared zip with Lancaster-west & Quartz Hill. Very big zip-code.)
Antelope Acres is http://www.officialcitysites.org/city.php3?st=CA&cityname=Antelope+Acres
Del Sur is the next town west of Quartz Hill and south of Antelope Acres.
Neenach has an official weather station there: http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/greg/southwest/states/CA/046122.html
Valyermo is 93563 zip code.
Lake Hughes is where the Pine Fire started the week before the larger forest fire in Acton. Lake Elizabeth is the town next door to it. Their zipcode is 93532 and they border & share the physical Elizabeth Lake. They are both west of Palmdale. Leona Valley is a town next to Palmdale to the Southwest. It shares 93551 with Palmdale-west. All three, (Leona Valley, Lake's Elizabeth & Hughes) are in the physical Leona Valley. The physical Leona Valley is a long narrow valley on the south end of the Antelope Valley separated from the main valley by the San Andreas Fault (the portion known as Ritter Ridge.)
Most of the input for these pages will have to be written by local residents to the area, however this info should help to create a stub type page for them.
Cheers,
Anon
JML, Anon - Anon has credible info listed above (and he didn't have to go to lengths in documenting each community with a website - I know these place names well). These are all place names where people say, for instance, "I live in Lake Elizabeth, not Lancaster" and "I need to find out if you could please take me to my friend in Valyermo from where my car conked out in here in Neenach." Los Angeles denizens get scared when we AVers use place names other than the "magic words" of Palmdale or Lancaster, but trust me - these place names Anon has listed and the place names another user/editor placed into the Antelope Valley article (BTW, I don't "own" the article - it's part of the free Wikipedia, available to anyone) are very legitimate. They aren't subsumed into either Palmdale city limits or Lancaster city limits. They deserve Wiki articles of their own - however humble or small they might be.
I second Anon's request for Bot assistance in getting some basic info for these communities. Over time, these places will be populated in good old LA fashion, and an already written history, combined with new developments as the communities grow will be an asset. Happy Trails, -- avnative 08:44, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Mr. Lane. I was wondering how to add a map to the page similar to the one Henderson has. Avnative and I are not sure how to make one.
Anon
I've revised the article per my earlier discussions (archived on this page) and as discussed on my user talk page. Hopefully nothing is too controversial in the changes. The blow by blow:
Hopefully, you or anyone else won't have many qualms with my major edit. Still to come is the Palmdale history section - to be done later. Thanks for your kind understanding! -- avnative 19:33, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Well I must say, I am quite impressed. Excellent job neighbor. I coudn't have done better myself. I really like it.
Cheers,
Anon
P.S. - I added a stub for Pearblossom, so there is one less dead link. Check it out avnative. Pearblossom
We got a map. Cool! Now we need a picture(s). I created more stubs for those dead links. I am tired and I have to get up early tomorrow, so I am going to bed. I am starting to understand what Wikiholic is all about. Go over them and add anything if you can. The Lake's are the only ones left to create. Night.-- Anon 07:42, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
I was perusing around on different links, and I came across the page for Glendale. Glendale has a pretty cool little map of Los Angeles County, with the city limits of Glendale in red and the city's seal. In looking at this map, it has all of the incorporated boundaries of L.A. County cities, including Palmdale's and Lancaster's. Perhaps this map can be adapted to the Palmdale article.
What do you think? Then we can have the topographical style So. Cal. map below it, followed by some pictures. -- Anon 06:18, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)
Thanx. I inquired to User:Mackerm about getting a map for us like the Glendale one. Where would I get the city seal? The Civic Center? I am still not quite sure how to upload something graphic into Wikipedia yet. I'd have to take a picture of it with my digital camera. I don't have a scanner. Should I use low-res so it doesn't take up a lot of space on the server, or should I take hi-res so it is clearly shown? What do you think?-- Anon 10:07, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Great, now we have the map. How do we add the other stuff to it like (elev., pop, metro, incorp date, sq. mi., city seal, etc... so that it looks like L.A. & Glendale's? -- Anon 23:34, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there Mr. Avnative... well Palmdale now has a history section... It took me awhile to get it done, but it's here. Hope you like it. Don't be afraid to copyedit it. Microsoft Word usually catches things, but sometimes it doesn't, so it's always helpful to have another human overview it.
Now I gotta finish Lancaster's history section. Ta Ta for now. -- Anon 10:22, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
I just stumbled on this page and just want to say (not even having read this Talk page or knowing who created it) that this is a superbly-written and absolutely ideal article! Would that all city articles could be this good! I'm going to see if I can figure out if this page has ever been nominated for Featured article status. (I don't want to drag anyone down that path if you'd rather not be nominated, so let me know....) I think the story of Palmdale is intrisically interesting, considering its explosive growth and its very America-at-the-dawn-of-the-21st century story, and I believe this article is ready to be nominated for Featured status. (Again, if you think that's out of line, I won't do it). Either way, great job! Moncrief 17:39, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Thanx Moncrief... I appreciate your commendations on the article... It has gone a long way. You can nominate if you wish. Hopefully I can get the Lancaster, California article up to the same par which is what I am currently working on. Once again, thanks for the compliment. -- Anon 02:51, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
I also just read through this article and thought that it was very well-written. However, I do not think it's quite good enough for featured article status, but that's just from my experiences. It could become a featured article with only a little bit of work, which is more than I can say for just about any other city article on Wikipedia. Very good job with this article! bob rulz 05:36, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
Our unknown user who placed Palmdale's population at 201,000 people, in a sense is correct given if you include all of the unincorporated district areas that are addressed as Palmdale into the figure such as White-Fence Farms, Desert-View Highlands, Harold, Lakeview, and Sun Village. However, since this is an encyclopedia, it must display only the physical determinable facts, and as that stands, there are only about 150,000 people within the city limits this year. The other 50,000 or so cannot be counted with it until they are incorporated into the city as well. If you wish for them to be counted, I suggest you push for a movement downtown for annexation of them. (unsigned comment placed by 71.108.95.39)
Woah, woah, woah
avnative... retract those claws. I didn't edit that population figure. I haven't done any editing with this page for at least a couple of months. Where do you get your information? By the way, I did try to talk to you, but I thought that something happened since you seemed to dissapear for several months. You stopped posting to your own page. I didn't know where you went.
Just tell me then, which part of this page "editorally" do you not agree with? I have kept it within information that I was able to obtain in print. There is nothing on this page that I cannot show you in print. As a matter of fact, the Los Angeles Times printed just over 2 weeks ago that there are over 614,000 people in the Antelope Valley now. I didn't even add that to the metro update. If I was editing the way that I had at first, I would have. I didn't. I left it at what the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance stated it was at.
I don't want to go into this editing war again. Users, including Wiki Administrators have commented on how well they thought the article was written. If they saw that it was not written to the Wikipedia guidelines and policy, would they have suggested that it be put up for "featured article status"? I don't think so.
I don't know where this chip on your shoulder against me has come from, but to go to the point of trying to investigate me with my colleagues is way out of bounds. What would motivate such an action, other than sabotage? As a Christian (as you state on your talk page), you must realize that we must follow Christ's example, including the art of forgiveness. When a person is truly forgiving, they make no further mention of the situation, as though it has been forgotten. When his apostles asked him how many times they were to forgive a person, they suggested seven times, thinking that they were being generous by doing so. Christ told them they need to forgive up to 77 times, to emphasize the point that there should be no limit to forgiving your fellow man. You are bringing up an incident that had occurred well over a year ago. You told me that you had forgiven me, and I told you that I was going to work on my impetuosness. Well? By you mentioning something that should not be mentioned again, was it really truly forgiven, according to the way Christ forgives? -- Anon 18:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
P.S. - All I can tell you about those population figures mentioned above is this: White Fence Farms has a population of about 15,000. Desert-View Highlands has just under 3,000. Sun Village has about 10,000. Lakeview (near Anaverde) has 500. Harold has 1,500. I would agree with the unknown user (whomever that was, not me), to a point, that these "unincorporated islands" add a little more to the true population figure, but not as exaggerated of one as he/she suggested. Rather, I would say that it is closer to 170,000 than 200,000.
A little interesting item of information relative to Palmdale was the "Battle Of Palmdale" on 16 August 1956, when the US Air Force bombarded the town.
On that day, a Grumman F6F Hellcat converted to a radio controlled target drone took off from the Point Mugu Naval Air Station to fly to a target range over the Pacific Ocean. It "slipped the leash" and headed for Los Angeles. Since nobody liked the idea of the unpiloted machine flying into, say, a school, two Northrop F-89D Scorpion interceptors were scrambled from Oxnard Air Force Base to shoot it down.
The Scorpions were only armed with unguided rockets, 104 per aircraft in wingtip pods. The Hellcat ended up wandering in a perverse fashion north of Los Angeles. The Scorpions fired rocket salvos at it, missing and starting a brush fire. They tried again, missing and setting up two more brush fires (including one fueled by oil rigs). They gave it one more try, using up the last of their rockets -- which missed the Hellcat and fell in and around Palmdale.
A piece of shrapnel went through the living room window of one house, passing through a wall and ending up in a kitchen cupboard. Another chunk of shrapnel passed through a garage and a house. A rocket fell in front of a car driving down the road and shredded the car's front end. Miraculously, nobody was hurt. Explosive ordnance disposal teams from Edwards Air Force Base picked up 13 dud rockets from the Palmdale area over the next few days. It took hundreds of firefighters two days to put out the fires, after the blaze had consumed hundreds of acres of brush.
The Hellcat eventually ran out of fuel and fell to earth in the desert, cutting three power lines but causing no other damage.
Having no particular interest in Palmdale I don't think I should modify this article, but if anyone likes this story, feel free to include it. Greg Goebel / 04 jan 06
Mentioned incident and provided link to main article. Samf4u ( talk) 19:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Note that with the addition of the infobox template, I had to omit the following information due to no relevant fields being present in the template:
Rmannion 19:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a section or at least a paragraph on the infamous "Palmdale Bulge". While now disproved, this oddity of geological history was significant in that it led to a measurable population exodus during the 1960's. Many news articles were written about it both at the time of it's "discovery" as well as later when it was disproved. Iwould gladly add this myself but I do not have access to the old newspaper archives from that era. 66.102.199.72 ( talk) 10:49, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed the page on Lancaster has a list of both public and private schools but the Palmdale page only lists public schools. Are there private schools in Palmdale? The only private schools I know of are listed in Lancaster. Mooreba1003 ( talk) 16:12, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello All,
Added a revision to the history section of the page. Stated when other "regular" public schools were established, to emphasize growth of the city. Added comment regarding, Highland high school and Knight high school. Thank you!
avnative is right. Mr. Lane, kukuman, I stand corrected.
Therefore, I have corrected the information and placed only verifiable information so that it stands correct for the time being until further notice.
This page is also getting too long and the warning message is appearing, so I have shortened it.
Respectfully, Anon
May God bless you, anon. To say and do what you have presented here and on the Palmdale page is hard to do, and harder to say. You have my admiration! Looking forward to your constructive, thoughtful, factual edits around the Wiki in the future. . .
(You'll also notice I archived all previous talk on this page - please see the header at the top of this page.)
Happy Trails to you! -- avnative 19:22, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
Nice, looks much better and more accurate. Kudos anon. --
Kukuman 01:01, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I agree it looks much better now. One thing that concerns me, though, is all those red links in the list of nearby communities. Some time ago, a bot was created that generated Wikipedia articles out of publicly available U.S. census data. That process created articles for several thousand cities and towns in the U.S., most of which no human editor had laid a finger on. The resulting basic article about each place has provided a site where additional details about it can be added. The coverage was pretty thorough, so I'm surprised to see so many red links. Does anyone know the cause? Are some of these places (Neenach, Pearblossom, etc.) just informal names for areas that the census treats as being part of Palmdale or some other larger city? JamesMLane 05:41, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Brief Info on them are as follows:
Pearblossom, 93553: http://www.citylinkz.com/California/Pearblossom.html - note: population given on website is for Los Angeles County. Pearblossom truthfully only has about 5,000 residents. http://www.geocities.com/pearblossomca/ Pearblossom Hwy. (SR-138) is named for this town.
Llano is the town next door between Pearblossom and Pinon Hills. Llano zip is 93544.
Agua Dulce, 91350: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?zip=91350
Antelope Acres, Del Sur, & Neenach share 93536 ( also shared zip with Lancaster-west & Quartz Hill. Very big zip-code.)
Antelope Acres is http://www.officialcitysites.org/city.php3?st=CA&cityname=Antelope+Acres
Del Sur is the next town west of Quartz Hill and south of Antelope Acres.
Neenach has an official weather station there: http://tao.atmos.washington.edu/greg/southwest/states/CA/046122.html
Valyermo is 93563 zip code.
Lake Hughes is where the Pine Fire started the week before the larger forest fire in Acton. Lake Elizabeth is the town next door to it. Their zipcode is 93532 and they border & share the physical Elizabeth Lake. They are both west of Palmdale. Leona Valley is a town next to Palmdale to the Southwest. It shares 93551 with Palmdale-west. All three, (Leona Valley, Lake's Elizabeth & Hughes) are in the physical Leona Valley. The physical Leona Valley is a long narrow valley on the south end of the Antelope Valley separated from the main valley by the San Andreas Fault (the portion known as Ritter Ridge.)
Most of the input for these pages will have to be written by local residents to the area, however this info should help to create a stub type page for them.
Cheers,
Anon
JML, Anon - Anon has credible info listed above (and he didn't have to go to lengths in documenting each community with a website - I know these place names well). These are all place names where people say, for instance, "I live in Lake Elizabeth, not Lancaster" and "I need to find out if you could please take me to my friend in Valyermo from where my car conked out in here in Neenach." Los Angeles denizens get scared when we AVers use place names other than the "magic words" of Palmdale or Lancaster, but trust me - these place names Anon has listed and the place names another user/editor placed into the Antelope Valley article (BTW, I don't "own" the article - it's part of the free Wikipedia, available to anyone) are very legitimate. They aren't subsumed into either Palmdale city limits or Lancaster city limits. They deserve Wiki articles of their own - however humble or small they might be.
I second Anon's request for Bot assistance in getting some basic info for these communities. Over time, these places will be populated in good old LA fashion, and an already written history, combined with new developments as the communities grow will be an asset. Happy Trails, -- avnative 08:44, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Mr. Lane. I was wondering how to add a map to the page similar to the one Henderson has. Avnative and I are not sure how to make one.
Anon
I've revised the article per my earlier discussions (archived on this page) and as discussed on my user talk page. Hopefully nothing is too controversial in the changes. The blow by blow:
Hopefully, you or anyone else won't have many qualms with my major edit. Still to come is the Palmdale history section - to be done later. Thanks for your kind understanding! -- avnative 19:33, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)
Well I must say, I am quite impressed. Excellent job neighbor. I coudn't have done better myself. I really like it.
Cheers,
Anon
P.S. - I added a stub for Pearblossom, so there is one less dead link. Check it out avnative. Pearblossom
We got a map. Cool! Now we need a picture(s). I created more stubs for those dead links. I am tired and I have to get up early tomorrow, so I am going to bed. I am starting to understand what Wikiholic is all about. Go over them and add anything if you can. The Lake's are the only ones left to create. Night.-- Anon 07:42, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
I was perusing around on different links, and I came across the page for Glendale. Glendale has a pretty cool little map of Los Angeles County, with the city limits of Glendale in red and the city's seal. In looking at this map, it has all of the incorporated boundaries of L.A. County cities, including Palmdale's and Lancaster's. Perhaps this map can be adapted to the Palmdale article.
What do you think? Then we can have the topographical style So. Cal. map below it, followed by some pictures. -- Anon 06:18, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)
Thanx. I inquired to User:Mackerm about getting a map for us like the Glendale one. Where would I get the city seal? The Civic Center? I am still not quite sure how to upload something graphic into Wikipedia yet. I'd have to take a picture of it with my digital camera. I don't have a scanner. Should I use low-res so it doesn't take up a lot of space on the server, or should I take hi-res so it is clearly shown? What do you think?-- Anon 10:07, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Great, now we have the map. How do we add the other stuff to it like (elev., pop, metro, incorp date, sq. mi., city seal, etc... so that it looks like L.A. & Glendale's? -- Anon 23:34, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there Mr. Avnative... well Palmdale now has a history section... It took me awhile to get it done, but it's here. Hope you like it. Don't be afraid to copyedit it. Microsoft Word usually catches things, but sometimes it doesn't, so it's always helpful to have another human overview it.
Now I gotta finish Lancaster's history section. Ta Ta for now. -- Anon 10:22, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
I just stumbled on this page and just want to say (not even having read this Talk page or knowing who created it) that this is a superbly-written and absolutely ideal article! Would that all city articles could be this good! I'm going to see if I can figure out if this page has ever been nominated for Featured article status. (I don't want to drag anyone down that path if you'd rather not be nominated, so let me know....) I think the story of Palmdale is intrisically interesting, considering its explosive growth and its very America-at-the-dawn-of-the-21st century story, and I believe this article is ready to be nominated for Featured status. (Again, if you think that's out of line, I won't do it). Either way, great job! Moncrief 17:39, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Thanx Moncrief... I appreciate your commendations on the article... It has gone a long way. You can nominate if you wish. Hopefully I can get the Lancaster, California article up to the same par which is what I am currently working on. Once again, thanks for the compliment. -- Anon 02:51, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
I also just read through this article and thought that it was very well-written. However, I do not think it's quite good enough for featured article status, but that's just from my experiences. It could become a featured article with only a little bit of work, which is more than I can say for just about any other city article on Wikipedia. Very good job with this article! bob rulz 05:36, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
Our unknown user who placed Palmdale's population at 201,000 people, in a sense is correct given if you include all of the unincorporated district areas that are addressed as Palmdale into the figure such as White-Fence Farms, Desert-View Highlands, Harold, Lakeview, and Sun Village. However, since this is an encyclopedia, it must display only the physical determinable facts, and as that stands, there are only about 150,000 people within the city limits this year. The other 50,000 or so cannot be counted with it until they are incorporated into the city as well. If you wish for them to be counted, I suggest you push for a movement downtown for annexation of them. (unsigned comment placed by 71.108.95.39)
Woah, woah, woah
avnative... retract those claws. I didn't edit that population figure. I haven't done any editing with this page for at least a couple of months. Where do you get your information? By the way, I did try to talk to you, but I thought that something happened since you seemed to dissapear for several months. You stopped posting to your own page. I didn't know where you went.
Just tell me then, which part of this page "editorally" do you not agree with? I have kept it within information that I was able to obtain in print. There is nothing on this page that I cannot show you in print. As a matter of fact, the Los Angeles Times printed just over 2 weeks ago that there are over 614,000 people in the Antelope Valley now. I didn't even add that to the metro update. If I was editing the way that I had at first, I would have. I didn't. I left it at what the Greater Antelope Valley Economic Alliance stated it was at.
I don't want to go into this editing war again. Users, including Wiki Administrators have commented on how well they thought the article was written. If they saw that it was not written to the Wikipedia guidelines and policy, would they have suggested that it be put up for "featured article status"? I don't think so.
I don't know where this chip on your shoulder against me has come from, but to go to the point of trying to investigate me with my colleagues is way out of bounds. What would motivate such an action, other than sabotage? As a Christian (as you state on your talk page), you must realize that we must follow Christ's example, including the art of forgiveness. When a person is truly forgiving, they make no further mention of the situation, as though it has been forgotten. When his apostles asked him how many times they were to forgive a person, they suggested seven times, thinking that they were being generous by doing so. Christ told them they need to forgive up to 77 times, to emphasize the point that there should be no limit to forgiving your fellow man. You are bringing up an incident that had occurred well over a year ago. You told me that you had forgiven me, and I told you that I was going to work on my impetuosness. Well? By you mentioning something that should not be mentioned again, was it really truly forgiven, according to the way Christ forgives? -- Anon 18:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
P.S. - All I can tell you about those population figures mentioned above is this: White Fence Farms has a population of about 15,000. Desert-View Highlands has just under 3,000. Sun Village has about 10,000. Lakeview (near Anaverde) has 500. Harold has 1,500. I would agree with the unknown user (whomever that was, not me), to a point, that these "unincorporated islands" add a little more to the true population figure, but not as exaggerated of one as he/she suggested. Rather, I would say that it is closer to 170,000 than 200,000.
A little interesting item of information relative to Palmdale was the "Battle Of Palmdale" on 16 August 1956, when the US Air Force bombarded the town.
On that day, a Grumman F6F Hellcat converted to a radio controlled target drone took off from the Point Mugu Naval Air Station to fly to a target range over the Pacific Ocean. It "slipped the leash" and headed for Los Angeles. Since nobody liked the idea of the unpiloted machine flying into, say, a school, two Northrop F-89D Scorpion interceptors were scrambled from Oxnard Air Force Base to shoot it down.
The Scorpions were only armed with unguided rockets, 104 per aircraft in wingtip pods. The Hellcat ended up wandering in a perverse fashion north of Los Angeles. The Scorpions fired rocket salvos at it, missing and starting a brush fire. They tried again, missing and setting up two more brush fires (including one fueled by oil rigs). They gave it one more try, using up the last of their rockets -- which missed the Hellcat and fell in and around Palmdale.
A piece of shrapnel went through the living room window of one house, passing through a wall and ending up in a kitchen cupboard. Another chunk of shrapnel passed through a garage and a house. A rocket fell in front of a car driving down the road and shredded the car's front end. Miraculously, nobody was hurt. Explosive ordnance disposal teams from Edwards Air Force Base picked up 13 dud rockets from the Palmdale area over the next few days. It took hundreds of firefighters two days to put out the fires, after the blaze had consumed hundreds of acres of brush.
The Hellcat eventually ran out of fuel and fell to earth in the desert, cutting three power lines but causing no other damage.
Having no particular interest in Palmdale I don't think I should modify this article, but if anyone likes this story, feel free to include it. Greg Goebel / 04 jan 06
Mentioned incident and provided link to main article. Samf4u ( talk) 19:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Note that with the addition of the infobox template, I had to omit the following information due to no relevant fields being present in the template:
Rmannion 19:19, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be a section or at least a paragraph on the infamous "Palmdale Bulge". While now disproved, this oddity of geological history was significant in that it led to a measurable population exodus during the 1960's. Many news articles were written about it both at the time of it's "discovery" as well as later when it was disproved. Iwould gladly add this myself but I do not have access to the old newspaper archives from that era. 66.102.199.72 ( talk) 10:49, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I noticed the page on Lancaster has a list of both public and private schools but the Palmdale page only lists public schools. Are there private schools in Palmdale? The only private schools I know of are listed in Lancaster. Mooreba1003 ( talk) 16:12, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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