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Santa Clarita is a city in southern California located in Los Angeles County. It is situated on a valley floor and along canyons reaching into the San Gabriel and Santa Susanna mountains. The Santa Clarita River running through the valley is frequently dry or stream-sized, although it can swell with winter and spring rains.

A mixed residential, commercial, and industrial city, Santa Clarita incorporated in 1987, combining the towns of Newhall, Valencia, Saugus, and Canyon Country. Educational institutions serving the city are The Master’s College, California Institute of the Arts, and a community college. The home and ranch of William S. Hart, star of silent motion pictures, is preserved as a county park and museum. The city is bounded on the north by the Angeles National Forest.

The Santa Clarita Valley was long used by Native American peoples as a route between the coast and interior valleys. The Spanish built a mission outpost in the valley in 1804. The Santa Clarita Valley was the site of two firsts for California mining. The first documented discovery of gold in California was in Placerita Canyon in 1842, although it is believed prospectors actually found gold in the valley earlier. In 1876 the first commercially productive oil well in the United States west of Pennsylvania was established in the valley.

The community of Newhall, the earliest permanent settlement and named after the owner of a ranch that encompassed much of the valley, was established in 1876 in conjunction with construction of the railroad; the establishment of Saugus followed in 1887. On March 28, 1928, the Saint Francis Dam suddenly broke and much of Saugus was destroyed by a wall of water; at least 470 people were killed. Devoted primarily to agriculture and cattle ranching for many years, the Santa Clarita Valley experienced a building boom in the 1980s.