Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the
San Fernando Valley region of
Los Angeles,
California, United States. Its 60,000+ residents are considered to be "highly diverse" ethnically. Before the
Mexican War the district was part of a
rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided, with part of it named
Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912. It joined Los Angeles in 1917 and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1, 1931, thanks to the efforts of local prominent civic leader Mary Logan Orcutt.