La Palma (Kalifornien)

La Palma is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 15,568 at the 2010 Census, up from 15,408 at the 2000 census.In 2013, La Palma was ranked 31st in the "Best places to live" among small cities (50,000 or less) in the United States by CNN's Money magazine. In 2007, it was ranked 16th best place to live in the US. The rankings are based on the small-and-friendly neighborhood vibe, high-ranking schools, low crime-rate and the lowest police response time in Orange County.HistoryLa Palma was incorporated on October 26, 1955. It was originally incorporated as Dairyland, and was one of three dairy cities in the region (the other two being Dairy Valley in Cerritos and Dairy City in Cypress) but when the dairies moved east in 1965, the name of the community was changed to La Palma, after the region's Spanish heritage and its main thoroughfare, La Palma Avenue.GeographyLa Palma is located at .It is bordered by Cerritos on the north and west, Cypress on the south and west, and Buena Park on the east.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.82sqmi. 1.8sqmi of it is land and 0.02sqmi of it is water. This makes it the smallest city in Orange County in terms of area.