I recently stumbled upon the plat map of Kinloch Park, which as its name suggests, has to do with the street grid of Kinloch, the historically middle class African American suburb in North County.

But it is not so simple. Kinloch Park formed only the northwest portion of Kinloch, and that part has actually been destroyed, and the northern part is now part of Berkeley. That latter suburb was formed by whites to create a segregated school district separate from Kinloch. Of course, now Berkeley is majority Black. Below is in fact is the whites-only school from 1937-47, now functioning as some sort of metal scrapping company.

I took a look around the surviving portion of Kinloch Park and found some interesting houses near the far south portion where the demolition and building of warehouses in Kinloch proper, which I looked at back in February of 2020, begin.

While the suburb might have been laid out much earlier, the vast majority of houses that fill the area today look to be post-World War II.

There are businesses scattered throughout the neighborhoods on corners, but for the most part it is rows of Cape Cods.

It is a nice and tidy area.

Really, the oldest houses I could find were Arts and Crafts bungalows from probably the 1920s.

For the most part, the area slopes upward to Airport Road, where there is a business district, and then it is more rugged north of there.

Below, originally Berkeley Presbyterian Church and missing its steeple, this building is now King of Kings Church.