Councils

The following is a large and exhaustive list of Councils that come from the territory that comprised the Western Region, Area 4 covered in this website. Please note that many pre-date and post-date the 1973-2020 Region/Area system.

Some listed Councils began as small Second-Class Councils before a First-Class Council with a professional executive were formed. In addition, several councils changed their names over time. For purposes of being complete, they are listed separate here, even if they remained an intact council with only a name change.

The National Council BSA had an idiosyncratic method for numbering Councils. Unlike the OA, which attempted to number Lodges chronologically for the first six decades of its existence, Councils were numbered by States in alphabetical order, followed by Councils in that State in alphabetical order. Because of this, Councils in Arizona and California have artificially low council numbers.

• Apache Council # 7 (1922 – 1934)
• Arrowhead Area Council # 48 (1933 – 1972)
• Bakersfield Council # 30 (1919 – 1921)
• Boulder Dam Area Council # 328 (1944 – 2005)
• California Inland Empire Council # 45 (1973 – Present)
• Catalina Council # 11 (1922 – Present)
• Centinela Council # 708 (1927)
• Central Coast Counties Council # 25 (1922 – 1924)
• Cochise County Council # 8 (1922 – 1963)
• Copper Council # 9 (1962 – 1977)
• Coronado Council (1916 – 1917)
• Crescent Bay Council # 26 (1922 – 1972)
• Desert Pacific Council # 49 (1993 – 2004)
• Desert Trails Council # 29 (1959 – 1993)
• Glendale Council # 58 (1920 – 1922)
• Globe Council (1916 – 1919)
• Grand Canyon Council # 9 (1922 – 1929)
• Grand Canyon Council # 12 (1944 – 1993)
• Grand Canyon Council # 10 (1993 – Present)
• Grayback Council # 24 (1955 – 1974)
• Great Western Council # 51 (1972 – 1985)
• Greater Los Angeles Area Council # 33 (2015 – Present)
• Hemet-San Jacinto Valley Council # 28 (1923 – 1927)
• Imperial-Yuma Council # 29 (1929 – 1959)
• Imperial County Council # 29 (1922 – 1929)
• Kern County Council # 30 (1922 – 1965)
• Las Vegas Area Council # 328 (2005 – Present)
• Long Beach Council # 32 (1919 – Present)
• Los Angeles Area Council # 33 (1945 – 2015)
• Los Angeles Council # 33 (1915 – 1934)
• Los Angeles Metro Area Council # 33 (1934 – 1945)
• Los Padres Council # 53 (1994 – Present)
• Maricopa County Council # 10 (1923 – 1924)
• Mission Council # 53 (1929 – 1994)
• North Orange Council # 37 (1965 – 1972)
• Northern Orange County Council # 37 (1944 – 1965)
• Northern Arizona Council # 12 (1929 – 1934)
• Old Baldy Council # 43 (1921 – 2006)
• Orange County Council # 39 (1920 – 1944, 1972 – Present)
• Orange Empire Council # 39 (1944 – 1972)
• Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley Council # 40 (1929 – 1951)
• Pasadena District Council # 40 (1919 – 1929)
• Phoenix Council # 10 (1921 – 1923)
• Pomona Council # 43 (1917 – 1921)
• Prescott Council # 12 (1915 – 1921)
• Redlands Council # 24 (1919 – 1921)
• Redlands Area Council # 24 (1945 – 1952)
• Riverside Council # 45 (1919 – 1920)
• Riverside County Council # 45(1920 – 1944, 1945 – 1972)
• Riverside County and Redlands Council # 45 (1944 – 1945)
• Roosevelt Council # 10 (1924 – 1961)
• San Bernardino District Council # 48 (1923 – 1933)
• San Bernardino Valley Council # 48 (1922 – 1923)
• San Diego-Imperial Council # 49 (2004 – Present)
• San Diego Council # 49 (1916 – 1921)
• San Diego County Council # 49(1921 – 1993)
• San Luis Obispo County Council # 56 (1933 – 1939)
• Santa Barbara Council # 53 (1919 – 1929)
• San Fernando Valley Council # 50 (1923 – 1972)
• San Gabriel Valley Council # 40 (1951 – 2015)
• Santa Lucia Area Council # 56 (1939 – 1994)
• Southern Sierra Council # 30 (1965 – Present)
• Theodore Roosevelt Council # 10 (1962 – 1993)
• Three G Council # 9 (1943 – 1962)
• Tucson Council # 11 (1920 – 1922)
• Verde Council # 715 (1927)
• Verdugo Hills Council # 58 (1922 – Present)
• Ventura County Council # 57 (1921 – Present)
• Western Los Angeles County Council # 51 (1985 – Present)
• Yavapai District Council # 12 (1922 – 1924)
• Yavapai-Mohave Council # 12 (1926 – 1929)
• Yavapai & Mohave Counties Council # 12 (1924 – 1926)