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El Segundo is named for a refinery
El Segundo, California
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Standard Oil put its second California refinery on the dunes south of Ballona Creek in 1911, and the company town that formed around it took the refinery's number for a name. The first whistle blew that August, six months after ground was broken. Oil still occupies roughly a quarter of the city's land, with aerospace on most of the rest.
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