Editing Scouting in California (section)

==Boy Scouting in California today==

There are twenty-four [[Boy Scouts of America]] local councils in [[California]].

===California Inland Empire Council===
{{main|California Inland Empire Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=California Inland Empire Council (#045)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[Redlands, California]]
|location=
|country=United States
|coords=
|f-date=1916
|defunct=
|founders=
|founder=
|members=
|chiefscouttitle=President
|chiefscout=Scott "Mac" McLeod
|chiefscouttitle2=Council Commissioner
|chiefscout2=Matt Flanagan
|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive
|chiefscout3=Joseph Daniszewski
|website= [http://www.bsa-ciec.org bsa-ciec.org ]
}}
The California Inland Empire Council (CIEC) was formed in 1973 through the merger of the Arrowhead Area (#048) and Riverside Area Councils (#045). In 1974 Grayback Council (#024) also merged into the new council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=http://www.bsa-ciec.org/about/history.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410044321/http://www.bsa-ciec.org/about/history.php |archive-date=April 10, 2007 |website=www.bsa-ciec.org}}</ref> In 2006, the council acquired the San Bernardino County portions of Old Baldy Council (#043). The council territory includes all of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
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===Crater Lake Council===
{{Main|Crater Lake Council}}
'''Crater Lake Council''' serves Scouts in [[Oregon]] and California.

===Golden Empire Council===
{{main|Golden Empire Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Golden Empire Council (#047)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[Sacramento, California]]
|location=
|country=United States
|coords=
|f-date=1917
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|chiefscout=
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|chiefscout2=
|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive
|chiefscout3=
|website= [http://www.gec-bsa.org gec-bsa.org]
}}
The '''Golden Empire Council''' (#047), first chartered in 1920, serves Scouts in a large section of Northern California, primarily the Sacramento Valley and the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. The council headquarters are located in Sacramento. The council covers 16 counties in [[Northern California]]: Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Solano, Shasta, Sierra, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, and Yuba counties.
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===Golden Gate Area Council===
{{main|San Francisco Bay Area Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=San Francisco Bay Area Council #028
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=San Leandro, California
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|country=United States
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|website=[http://www.sfbac.org sfbac.org]
}}
The SFBAC (#028) was formed by a merger of the San Francisco Area Council and Oakland Area Council in February 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SFBAC: A History (Random Notes) |url=http://www.sfbac.org/sfbac_history.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010062110/http://www.sfbac.org/sfbac_history.cfm |archive-date=October 10, 2007 |website=www.sfbac.org}}</ref> Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving the cities of Colma, Daly City (northern section), San Francisco, Emeryville, Oakland, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont, Union City, Newark, Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore, as well as unincorporated communities such as Castro Valley, San Lorenzo, and Sunol. In June 1916, the Oakland-Piedmont Council (#021) was chartered, changing its name in 1921 to the Oakland Area Council after Piedmont elected to organize their own council. In January 1917, the San Francisco Council (#051) was chartered, changing its name in 1924 to the San Francisco Area Council.{{listref|a}}

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===Greater Los Angeles Area Council===
{{main| Greater Los Angeles Area Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Greater Los Angeles Area Council (#33)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=  Los Angeles and Pasadena
|location=
|country=United States
|coords=
|f-date=2015
|defunct=
|founders=
|founder=
|members= Los Angeles Area Council and San Gabriel Valley Council
|chiefscouttitle=President
|chiefscout=
|chiefscouttitle2=Council Commissioner, Steve Craig
|chiefscout2=
|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive, Chuck Keathley
|chiefscout3=
|website=[https://www.glaacbsa.org www.glaacbsa.org]
}}
The Greater Los Angeles Area Council  (GLAAC) is the council made from the merger of the [[Los Angeles Area Council]] and the [[San Gabriel Valley Council]]. The vote to merge was held on  March 21, 2015.<ref name="scoutsunited.org">{{Cite web |title=SGVC/LAAC United - Updates |url=http://scoutsunited.org/ |website=scoutsunited.org}}</ref> The new name Council, Greater Los Angeles Area Council, was announced on June 11, 2015. The new Council will continue with Scouting Service centers in Los Angeles and Pasadena. GLAAC has three Scout shops in Los Angeles, San Pedro and Pasadena.<ref name="Los Angeles, San Pedro Scout Shops">{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles, San Pedro Scout Shops |url=http://www.boyscoutsla.org/Scout_Shops/index.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905061700/http://www.boyscoutsla.org/Scout_Shops/index.html |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |access-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> GLAAC operates eight BSA Camps in the greater Los Angeles area.<ref name="SGVC BSA camps">{{Cite web |title=Camps |url=http://www.sgvcbsa.org/programs/camping |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127070352/http://www.sgvcbsa.org/programs/camping |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-27 |website=SGVC BSA}}</ref><ref name="LACC BSA Camps">{{Cite web |title=LACC BSA Camps |url=http://www.boyscoutsla.org/Camping/Documents.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905065218/http://www.boyscoutsla.org/Camping/Documents.html |archive-date=September 5, 2015}}</ref> Due to the large size of the two original councils, the merger is a process that will be completed over a time span.

===Greater Yosemite Council===
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Greater Yosemite Council (#059)
|image=Greater Yosemite Council CSP.png
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[Modesto, California]]
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|country=United States
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|f-date=1917
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|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive
|chiefscout3=
|website= {{url|yosemitescouting.org}}
}}
The '''Greater Yosemite Council''' (#059) is a local council of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] based in [[Modesto, California]]. It was founded in 1920 as the Modesto Council. In 1921 Modesto changed its name to the Stanislaus County Council, and in 1922 to the Yosemite Area Council. In 1998, the council changed its name to the Greater Yosemite Council. In 1997, the Forty Niner Council (#052) merged with the Yosemite Area Council.

The Forty Niner Council was founded in 1918 as the Stockton Council. In 1922 Stockton changed its name to San Joaquin, and in 1929 to San Joaquin-Calaveras Council. <!-- This may have been a merger with a Calaveras County Council  founded in 1925 or 1929 --> In 1957, San Joaquin-Calaveras Council changed its name to Forty Niner Council.{{listref|a}}

====Organization====

The council reorganized eight districts into three in 2011. The 49er District. Calaveras District, and the Big Valley District were combined into the Gold Country District. The  Chief Tenaya District and the Golden Heritage District, and Waukeen District formed the Sierra Valley District. The El Capitan District and the Wawona District became the Rio Del Oro District.

====Camps====

*Camp John Mensinger<ref>{{Cite web |title=Council Camps |url=http://www.yosemitescouting.org/sections/Camping/resources |website=yosemitescouting.org}}</ref>
*Camp McConnell

====Former camps====
*Camp Micke, near Lodi (operated by Stockton Council)
*Camp Cowell, near Santa Cruz (operated by San Joaquin-Calaveras Council)
*Camp Dorrington, near Arnold (operated by San Joaquin-Calaveras Council)
*Camp Baxter, near Arnold (operated by San Joaquin-Calaveras Council)
*Camp Paradise, previous name of Camp 49 (operated by 49er Council)
*Camp 49er, near Avery CA. (operated by 49er Council)
*Camp Bob MacBride, east side of Pinecrest Lake (operated by Yosemite Area Council)
*Camp Minkalo, in Amador County (operated by 49er Council)
*Camp Hi-Sierra, near Silver Lake in Amador County (operated by 49er Council)

====Order of the Arrow====

*Toloma Lodge #64<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toloma Lodge #64 |url=http://www.yosemitescouting.org/sections/OrderoftheArrow |website=yosemitescouting.org}}</ref>

===Las Vegas Area Council===
{{Main|Las Vegas Area Council}}
Formerly ''Boulder Dam Area Council'', '''Las Vegas Area Council''' serves Scouts in [[Nevada]], California and [[Arizona]].

===Long Beach Area Council===
{{main|Long Beach Area Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Long Beach Area Council (#032)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[Long Beach, California]]
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|chiefscout3=John Fullerton
|website= [http://www.longbeachbsa.org longbeachbsa.org]
}}
The '''Long Beach Area Council (LBAC)''', headquartered in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]] and founded in 1919, is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in [[Los Angeles County, California]].{{listref|a}}

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===Los Padres Council===
{{main|Los Padres Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Los Padres Council (#053)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=Santa Barbara, California
|country=United States
|f-date=1915
|website=[http://www.lpcbsa.org lpcbsa.org]
}}
The '''Los Padres Council''' was founded in 1917 as the Santa Barbara Council. The Santa Barbara Council changed its name in 1929 to the Mission Council and stayed that way until 1994. In 1994, the Santa Lucia Area Council merged with the Mission Council to form the Los Padres Council. The Santa Lucia Area Council (#056) was founded in 1933, as the San Luis Obispo County Council. The Central Coast Counties council (#025), founded in 1922 merged into Santa Barbara in 1924.{{listref|a}}
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===Marin Council===
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Marin Council (#035)
|image= Marin Council CSP.png
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[San Rafael, California]]
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|country=United States
|coords=
|f-date=1919
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|members=
|chiefscouttitle=President
|chiefscout=Chris Cardinal
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|chiefscout2=Sam Guyton
|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive
|chiefscout3=Michael Dybeck
|website= {{url|http://www.boyscouts-marin.org}}
}}

One of the six councils that serves the [[San Francisco Bay]] area, the '''Marin Council''' was formed in 1910. In 1918 it absorbed the Mill Valley and Sausalito Councils.{{listref|a}} The Marin County's Scouting community was born just six months after the national Boy Scouts of America organization in 1910.<ref>{{Cite news |title=After 100 years in Marin, Boy Scout tradition lives on |url=http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20101018/NEWS/101018937 |access-date=2017-10-30 |language=en}}</ref>

====Camps====
*Camp Marin-Sierra (Chubb Lake) located in Emigrant Gap, CA. The camp features 320-acres of forested terrain with significant facilities, including Ibach And Murray lodges, a rifle, shotgun and archery range, full commercial kitchen, rock climbing wall, camp fire bowl and waterfront facilities. Marin Sierra hosts resident camp for Scouts BSA troops and Venture crews. The facility is also used year-round by various Scout units and is staffed by a full-time ranger. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Marin Sierra |url=https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-facilities/camp-marin-sierra/4056 |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=www.boyscouts-marin.org}}</ref>
*[https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-programs-and-facilities/camp-tamarancho/4057 Camp Tamarancho] located in [[Fairfax, California|Fairfax, CA]]. 412 acre camp available for year-round use, the camp has developed facilities including a full commercial kitchen, archery and rifle ranges, a chapel and both developed and primitive campsites. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Tamarancho |url=https://www.boyscouts-marin.org/camping-programs-and-facilities/camp-tamarancho/4057 |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=www.boyscouts-marin.org}}</ref> Tamarancho hosts BSA units from around Northern California as well as Marin Council programs such as Cub Scout day camp. The camp is staffed by a full time ranger.  Surrounding the camp is one of the Bay Area’s largest network of maintained single-track mountain bike trails.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camp Tamarancho Loop Mountain Bike Trail, Fairfax, California |url=https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/808937/camp-tamarancho-loop |access-date=2021-10-19 |website=MTB Project}}</ref>
*{{Commonscat-inline|Camp Tamarancho}}

====Order of the Arrow====
*Talako Lodge #533<ref>{{Cite web |title=Talako Lodge History |url=http://usscouts.org/honorsociety/tribetalako.asp |website=usscouts.org}}</ref>

===Nevada Area Council===
{{Main|Nevada Area Council}}

'''Nevada Area Council''' serves approximately 14,000 youth through chartered organizations and BSA units in northern Nevada and northeastern California. The parts of California served by the NAC are [[Alpine County]], [[Lassen County]], [[Plumas County]], the northern portion of [[Mono County]], and the eastern portions of [[El Dorado County]], [[Placer County]], and [[Sierra County, California|Sierra County]].

===Orange County Council===
{{main|Orange County Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Orange County Council (#039)
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|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
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}}
Founded in 1920 as the Orange County Council,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Orange County - 1910 to 1929 |url=http://www.ocalmanac.com/History/hi01f.htm |website=www.ocalmanac.com}}</ref> the council was formed by the merger of the North Orange Council (#037) and the Orange Empire Council (#039) in 1972. The North Orange Council was founded in 1944 as the Northern Orange County and changed its name to North Orange in 1965.{{listref|a}}

Orange County Council is one of the 20 largest councils by traditional membership in the nation. In 2008 it had over 40,000 youth members.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}
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===Pacific Skyline Council===
{{main|Pacific Skyline Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Pacific Skyline Council (#031)
|image=
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[Foster City, California]]
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|website=[http://www.pacsky.org pacsky.org]
}}
One of the six councils that serves the [[San Francisco Bay]] area, the '''Pacific Skyline Council''' was founded in 1940 as the Stanford Area Council (#031).{{listref|a}} In 1994, the Stanford Area Council merged with the San Mateo County Council (#020) to form the current council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=http://www.pacsky.org/Council/AboutUs |website=Pacific Skyline Council}}</ref>
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===Piedmont Council===
{{main|Piedmont Council (California)}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Piedmont Council (#042)
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}}
The Piedmont Council (California) of BSA serves chartered organizations and BSA units located in the city of [[Piedmont, California|Piedmont]], located in the East Bay hills and surrounded by the city of [[Oakland, California|Oakland]]. The council was first chartered in 1921, and by some measurements is the smallest in the BSA, but has a high level of activity and serves a high percentage of the available youth living in Piedmont.{{listref|a}} Piedmont Council is one of the six councils that serves the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].

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===Redwood Empire Council===
{{main|Redwood Empire Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Redwood Empire Council #041
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}}
'''Redwood Empire Council''' is the local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves youth in Mendocino and Sonoma counties in California.

The Petaluma Council (#041) was founded in 1919, later named the Petaluma Area Council. This council renamed itself the Sonoma-Mendocino Area Council when the Scouting districts of northern Sonoma County and Mendocino County were separated from Silverado Area Council in 1942.  In 1992, the Sonoma-Mendocino Council merged with the Redwood Area Council (#044), to form the Redwood Empire Council. The Redwood Area Council was founded in 1923.{{listref|a}}
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===San Diego-Imperial Council===
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=San Diego-Imperial Council #049
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}}
The '''San Diego-Imperial Council''' is headquartered in [[San Diego, California]], and serves youth members and volunteer leaders through [[Scouting|Scout]] units in San Diego and Imperial counties of Southern California, as well as a portion of Arizona. Founded in 1916 as the Coronado Council, and the San Diego Council, in 1917 the two council merged to make the San Diego County Council (#049). Founded in 1922, the Imperial County Council (#029) changed its name to Imperial-Yuma Area Council in 1929, and changed the name again in 1959 to Desert Trails Council. In 1993 Desert Trails and San Diego County merged to become Desert Pacific Council. Desert Pacific Council was renamed to San Diego-Imperial Council on January 3, 2005.{{listref|a}}
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===Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council===
{{main|Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
|headquarters=[[San Jose, California]]
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|country=[[United States]]
|coords=
|f-date=August 20, 1920
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|chiefscouttitle=President
|chiefscout=
|chiefscouttitle2=Council Commissioner
|chiefscout2=
|chiefscouttitle3=Scout Executive
|chiefscout3=Jason Stein
|website=[http://svmbc.org svmbc.org]
}}

'''Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council (#055)''', the result of a council merger between the [[Santa Clara County Council]] and the [[Monterey Bay Area Council]], is a Boy Scouts of America council headquartered in [[San Jose, California]]. As of 2022, the council serves over 9,200 youth in [[Scouting|Boy Scout]] troops, [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scout]] packs, [[Venturing (Boy Scouts of America)|Venturing]] crews, and [[Exploring (Boy Scouts of America)|Explorer]] posts.

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===Sequoia Council===
:''(not to be confused with the [[Sequoyah Council]] located in Tennessee and Virginia)''
{{Infobox WorldScouting
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|website=[http://www.seqbsa.org seqbsa.org]
}}
The '''Sequoia Council''' serves Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare Counties in California. Founded in 1919 as the Fresno Council, it changed its name to Sequoia Council in 1925. In 1992, the Mount Whitney Area Council (#054) merged into Sequoia.{{listref|a}}
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===Southern Sierra Council===
{{main|Southern Sierra Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Southern Sierra Council #030
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}}
The '''Southern Sierra Council''' serves Kern, Inyo, and Mono counties in California. Founded in 1919 as the Bakersfield Council, it changed its name to the Kern County Council in 1921, and then to the Southern Sierra Council in 1965.{{listref|a}}

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===Ventura County Council===
{{main|Ventura County Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Ventura County Council #057
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}}
Ventura County Council of the Boy Scouts of America was officially chartered as Council 57 on June 23, 1921, after a series of meetings that followed a proposal put forward at a County Chamber of Commerce meeting on March 28, 1921 in the Masonic Hall. Mr. C. H. Whipple, then of Moorpark and later Oxnard, became the president; and Col. J.L. Howland became commissioner. Harvey R. Cheesman, an assistant Scout executive in the Los Angeles Council, became the first Scout Executive, assuming his duties on July 11.{{listref|a}}
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===Verdugo Hills Council===

{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Verdugo Hills Council #058
|image=File:Verdugo Hills Council CSP.png
|type=council
|owner=[[Scouting_America|Scouting America ]]
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|chiefscout3=
|website=[http://www.vhcbsa.org vhcbsa.org]
}}

'''Verdugo Hills Council''' (VHC) is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in Los Angeles County, California. Headquartered in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]]. It was founded in 1920 as the Glendale Council, changing its name in 1922 to the Verdugo Hills Council (#058).{{listref|a}}

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===Western Los Angeles County Council===
{{main|Western Los Angeles County Council}}
{{Infobox WorldScouting
|name=Western Los Angeles County Council (#051)
|image=
|type=council
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|website= [http://www.bsa-la.org bsa-la.org]
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The '''Western Los Angeles County Council''' (WLACC) (#051) is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in [[Los Angeles County, California]]. Headquartered in [[Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California|Van Nuys]], the council services over 30,000 youth spanning six districts including the [[San Fernando Valley]], [[Santa Clarita Valley]], [[Antelope Valley]], [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], and much of [[West Los Angeles (region)|West Los Angeles]].

The Western Los Angeles County Council was formed in 1972 with the merger of the Crescent Bay Council (#026) and the San Fernando Valley Council (#050) to form the Great Western Council. The Great Western Council was renamed Western Los Angeles County Council in 1985.{{listref|a}}

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