Lancaster, California, USA, is the eighth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 9th
fastest growing city in the United States.
Lancaster is located approximately 70 miles (112.5km) north (by road travel) of the city of
Los Angeles in Southern California's Antelope Valley.
It is separated from the Los Angeles Basin by the San Gabriel Mountain Range to the south
and from Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley by the Tehachapi Mountain Range to the north.
The City of Lancaster has grown from 37,000 residents at the time of incorporation in 1977,
to an estimated 143,818 residents in 2007, and is the second-largest city on the California side of the
Mojave Desert.
As of the 2005 population estimate, the Palmdale / Lancaster, CA Urbanized Area
(a US Census Bureau defined term) has a population of 589,043.
Lancaster is the northernmost incorporated city in Los Angeles County.
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