Just north of The Valley is … well, still a valley. Antelope Valley lies in the Mojave Desert, just north of the famed L.A. Valley.
In the very beginning of its settlement, this area was called Sand Creek. It had been home to westerners who wanted to live off the beaten path until the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line connecting L.A. to San Francisco, providing easy access to the two cities and changing Sand Creek into a large enough town by 1885 to have its own post office.