Compton
Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.
Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county, and in May 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate. In the 2020 census, the city had a population of 95,740.
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Worth seeing in and around Compton
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, Dominguez Hills is a public university in Carson, California, United States. It was founded in 1960 and is part of the California State University system.
4.6 km · university · Wikipedia - 02VELO Sports Center
The VELO Sports Center is a velodrome in Carson, California, United States. It is currently the only cycling track of its kind in the US. Formerly known as the ADT Event Center or LA Velodrome, it opened in 2004 on the California State University, Dominguez Hills Campus, part of the Dignity Health Sports Park complex.
5.3 km · large velodrome in Carson, California · Wikipedia - 03Murdock Stadium
Featherstone Field, previously known as Murdock Stadium is a stadium on the campus of El Camino College in Torrance, California. Built in 1958, the stadium seats around 12,127 on wood-backed bleacher seats.
10 km · college sports stadium in California, U.S · Wikipedia - 04Los Angeles County Library
LA County Library is one of the largest public library systems in the United States which serves residents living in 49 of the 88 incorporated cities of Los Angeles County, California. United States, and those living in unincorporated areas resulting in a service area extending over 3,000 square miles.
6.8 km · public library system in California, USA · Wikipedia - 05Al-Zahra Mosque
Al-Zahra Mosque is a Twelver Shia mosque, located in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The Shi'i mosque was founded in 1990, to meet the needs of the Los Angeles Shi'a community.
7.4 km · mosque in Los Angeles, CA, USA · Wikipedia - 06Compton College
Compton College is a public community college in Compton, California. From 2006, when it lost its regional accreditation, to 2017, when it regained that accreditation, it operated as a part of El Camino College.
2.5 km · community college in Compton, California, United States · Wikipedia - 07Los Cerritos Ranch House
Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, United States, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English.
7.3 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia - 08El Camino College
El Camino College is a public community college in Los Angeles County, California. Most of it is in Alondra Park, while a section is in the city limits of Torrance.
9.8 km · community college in Alondra Park, California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Compton
- Airports
- Long Beach (LGB), 11 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 18 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 36 km
- Stations
- Artesia, 2.2 km · Compton/Woodley Airport, 1.9 km · 103rd Street/Watts Towers, 5.4 km · Vermont/Athens, 7.1 km · Watts Station, 5.4 km
- Santa Ana → Compton3636 km · quickest by air, 13h 25m · $810–1,210
- Ontario → Compton56 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · $6–8
- San Bernardino → Compton89 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · $9–12
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Compton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Compton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you have a personal airplane or helicopter, you can land at .
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Compton is 15 km from Long Beach, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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