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Bellflower is a city in southeastern Los Angeles County that was founded in 1906 by F. E. Woodruff and incorporated on September 3, 1957, becoming California's 348th city.

The town was first named Somerset when its post office was established in 1909, but the Post Office Department rejected the name to avoid confusion with Somerset, Colorado, so it was renamed for the bellefleur apple grown in local orchards.

Bellflower's land traces back to one of the first Spanish land grants in California in 1784, and the modern city grew out of parts of the ranchos Santa Gertrudes, Los Coyotes, and Los Cerritos.

Bellflower was originally settled by dairy farmers of Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese descent, and together with neighboring Paramount it served first as an apple and later a milk production center for Southern California.

After World War II, soaring land values pushed most dairy farmers east to the Dairy Valley area, now the cities of Cerritos, La Palma, and Cypress, and Bellflower's farms were converted into large housing subdivisions.

Bellflower's population surged from about 11,000 to 44,000 during the 1940s alone, and seven new schools were built in the city during that decade.

The 2020 census counted 79,190 people in Bellflower, up from 76,616 in 2010.

Bellflower has about 23,800 households with an average of 3.19 people per household, and only about 40 percent of its homes are owner-occupied.

Bellflower is one of the most densely populated cities in the United States, ranking as the eighth-most densely populated city in California among cities with more than 50,000 residents.

Bellflower is one of the only cities in the United States to boast multiple Dutch grocery stores, a legacy of its Dutch dairy farming community.