Agoura Community Information

Just forty-five minutes from busy downtown Los Angeles, Agoura Hills is located on the western edge of Los Angeles County in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. but is nevertheless rich with undulating hills and inspiring canyons.

Agoura is a neighborhood in the southeastern area of the city of Agoura Hills, adjacent to the city of Calabasas.  Agoura was the historical name of the area, before much of the area was developed and before the incorporation of the City of Agoura Hills.  There are several pockets of unincorporated areas in the city of Agoura which contain a handful of houses. 

The History of Agoura Hills

For many centuries the area that would become Agoura Hills was familiar territory for Native Americans who wandered inland from their haunts along the sea in search of game and other food. In the late 1700s, the the Spanish arrived and introduced a ranching culture that would linger into the early twentieth century. In the 1900s, vast cattle and sheep ranches conceded ground to agriculture. While driving through the area at that time, you would be greeted with rows of lettuce and celery, orchards,and wheatfields. But as ranching and agriculture diminished in importance, ranchers began dividing up their property and selling individual tracts for housing. From the outset, ranchers and farmers had worried about water supplies and these concerns were shared by the citizens of Agoura Hills into the mid 1950s. Then, provision of outside sources of water helped ensure the growth of the community, aided by the new highways which acted as a conduit for the residential and commercial development that formed the Agoura of today.