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Vernon, California
Vernon, California: a 5.2-square-mile exclusively industrial city southeast of Downtown Los Angeles, incorporated 1905, with 112 residents, over 1,800 businesses, and a documented governance-reform and fiscal-history record.
Victorville, California
Victorville, California: Mojave Desert city in San Bernardino County's Victor Valley on the Los Angeles–Las Vegas corridor. Founded as Victor in 1885, incorporated 1962; 2020 census population 134,810; home to Southern California Logistics Airport and Route 66 heritage.
Visalia
Visalia, California, county seat of Tulare County since 1853; founded 1852 as Four Creeks, named for Visalia, Kentucky; chartered 1923; about 146,500 residents in 2025.
Vista
Vista, California: incorporated city in northern San Diego County, founded as a post office in 1882, incorporated January 28, 1963; about 98,400 residents, 18.75 square miles, majority-Latino, known for its avocado-farming past and Business Park.
Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla, Washington: county-seat city in southeastern Washington named from Sahaptin for "many waters." Founded 1862, once largest city in Washington Territory, now a wine and college town of about 34,000.
Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek, California: an East Bay city in Contra Costa County about 25 miles from San Francisco, incorporated 1914, population about 70,000, known for Broadway Plaza shopping, the Lesher Center for the Arts, and over 3,000 acres of preserved open space.
Weed, California
Weed is a city in Siskiyou County, California, at the western foothills of Mount Shasta, named for lumberman Abner Weed, incorporated in 1961, a historic timber town of about 2,700 people hit by the 2014 Boles and 2022 Mill fires.
Wenatchee, Washington
Wenatchee, Washington: county seat of Chelan County at the Wenatchee-Columbia river confluence, second largest city in central Washington, the self-proclaimed Apple Capital of the World, platted in 1892 around the Great Northern Railway.
West Covina, California
West Covina is a San Gabriel Valley city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1923 by 507 residents to block Covina's sewage farm; it boomed after World War II and had 109,501 people in 2020.
West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood, California: a 1.9-square-mile city incorporated in 1984, first U.S. city with a majority openly gay council; about 35,000 residents, the Sunset Strip, and the planned K Line extension.
Westlake Village, California
Westlake Village is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1981 from the LA County half of a 1960s American-Hawaiian Steamship master-planned community; population 8,029 (2020), median household income $179,954.
Whittier, California
Whittier, California: charter city in Los Angeles County about 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles, incorporated 1898, founded by Quakers and named for poet John Greenleaf Whittier; about 87,000 residents.
Woodside, California
Woodside, California: a rural residential town in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula, incorporated November 16, 1956; about 5,309 residents across 11.47 square miles, known for equestrian heritage, country estates, and redwood-lumber history.
Yakima, Washington
Yakima is a city in south-central Washington and the county seat of Yakima County, at the heart of the Yakima Valley, which grows about 75% of US hops.
Yorba Linda, California
Yorba Linda is a city in north Orange County, California, population 68,336 (2020), incorporated November 2, 1967, birthplace of Richard Nixon and home to his presidential library and museum.
Yreka, California
Yreka is the county seat and largest city of Siskiyou County, Northern California, founded in the 1851 Gold Rush, incorporated April 21, 1857, and once named capital of the proposed State of Jefferson.
Yuba City, California
Yuba City is a city in Sutter County, California, near the Feather River and Sutter Buttes, 40 miles north of Sacramento. Population about 70,000; hub of the Yuba-Sutter agricultural region and a major Punjabi Sikh community.