Search for the center of L.A. and you might miss the city’s heart

A reader wants to know: Where is the geographic center of L.A.?

What, are you trying to torture me?

Even the master mappers of the U.S. Geological Survey, assessing a space as big and blocky as this continental United States (apart from Alaska and Hawaii), found that in spite of the bragging rights claimed by a baby burg in Kansas, “no marked or monumented point has been established by any government agency” as the nation’s geographic center.