La Honda, California

La Honda
La Honda
Census-designated place
	State Route 84 in downtown La Honda
	Location of La Honda in San Mateo County, California.
	La Honda Location within the state of California La Honda La Honda (the United States)
	Coordinates: 37°19′9″N 122°16′27″W / 37.31917°N 122.27417°W
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Mateo
Area
• Total	4.262 sq mi (11.038 km2)
• Land	4.247 sq mi (10.999 km2)
• Water	0.015 sq mi (0.039 km2) 0.35%
Elevation	715 ft (218 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	979
• Density	230/sq mi (89/km2)
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP codes	94020
Area code	650
FIPS code	06-39318
GNIS feature ID	2628746

La Honda (Spanish for "The Sling")^[5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, United States.^[2] The population was 979 at the 2020 census. It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between the Santa Clara Valley and California's Pacific coast. La Honda is near the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve and State Route 84 on the ocean side of the Coastal Range.

The ZIP Code for La Honda is 94020 and the area code is 650. Land-line numbers in the La Honda telephone exchange follow the pattern 747-xxxx while wired telephones in and around the Middleton Tract (along Portola State Park Road) work out of the Los Altos exchange with 94x-xxxx numbers. Per the U.S. Geological Survey, Lahonda is a historic variant of the modern spelling.

^ U.S. Census Archived January 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: La Honda, California
^ "Census Data: La Honda (cdp)". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
^ "ZIP Code by City and State". U.S. Postal Service. Retrieved April 13, 2019.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Government Printing Office. pp. 179.

[1] U.S. Census Archived January 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[gnis-2] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: La Honda, California

[censusdata-3] "Census Data: La Honda (cdp)". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 14, 2021.

[4] "ZIP Code by City and State". U.S. Postal Service. Retrieved April 13, 2019.

[5] Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Government Printing Office. pp. 179.

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