Editing Palmdale, California (section)

===Incorporation, 1962–1980===
In August 1962, the township of Palmdale officially became the ''[[city]]'' of Palmdale with the incorporation of {{convert|2|mi2|km2|0|sp=us}} of land around the present day civic center.<ref name="Los Angeles County Public Library"/>

In 1964, the [[Antelope Valley Freeway]], or State Highway 14, was completed as a link between Palmdale and Los Angeles. The freeway at this time ran all the way to present-day Technology Drive. It was at this time that talk about the future ''Palmdale Intercontinental Airport'' was seen as the way of the future. By 1965, the new city had annexed an additional {{convert|20|sqmi|km2}} of land and industry was thriving. Talk of the future commercial [[airport]] had many investors buying up large quantities of land.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
[[File:Palmdale Freeway.jpg|thumb|left|[[California State Route 14|Antelope Valley Freeway]] looking southbound near downtown Palmdale on a day with sparse traffic.]] In 1970, the city of Los Angeles went forward with buying {{convert|17,750|acre|km2}} of land east of the city for its proposed intercontinental commercial airport. However, the United States Air Force desired to put construction of this new facility on hold until the existing airport reached its commercial capacity. So, under a joint-use agreement with the military, the Los Angeles Department of Airports, now called [[Los Angeles World Airports]], built a 9,000 square-foot (800 m<sup>2</sup>) terminal (on leased land) that opened in 1971, creating present-day [[LA/Palmdale Regional Airport]], which the City of Palmdale has taken control of in an effort to establish reliable air service in the region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lawa.org/pmd/pmdHistory.cfm|title=New LAWA Home Page|website=Lawa.org|access-date=November 6, 2017|archive-date=November 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107060546/http://www.lawa.org/pmd/pmdHistory.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref>

By 1974, the Antelope Valley Freeway construction ended at the southern border of [[Mojave, California|Mojave]] in Kern County. In 1977, Palmdale built its first municipal building, the Palmdale City Library. This was the same year that its northern neighbor Lancaster incorporated as a city. Since the 1920s, Lancaster had been the much larger and principal community of the [[Antelope Valley]], as well as the rest of California's [[Mojave Desert]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colapublib.org/history/antelopevalley/faq.html#q7|title=Antelope Valley: Frequently Asked Questions – County of Los Angeles Public Library|website=Colapublib.org|access-date=November 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107061244/http://www.colapublib.org/history/antelopevalley/faq.html#q7|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>