The residential area of Granada Hills covers 15 square miles on which 68,748 people live. Granada Hills was founded in 1927 (as "Granada;" the "Hills" was added 15 years later) and started out as a dairy farm and orchard known as the Sunshine Ranch. Among the crops harvested here as the nation prepared for the Roaring '20s were apricots, oranges, walnuts and beans.
Four city parks are scattered throughout Granada Hills, including the 672-acre O'Melveny Park, the second-largest in Los Angeles. Seven elementary schools and three middle schools feed into Granada Hills and John F. Kennedy High schools. This is a close-knit community, although some neighborhoods are decidedly closer than others.
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