Fontana

Fontana, California 

United States of America's San Bernardino County contains the city of Fontana. Azariel Blanchard Miller founded it in 1913, but it remained largely rural until Henry J. Kaiser, a businessman, built a sizable steel plant nearby during World War II. With Interstate 15 cutting diagonally through its northwest quarter and Interstate 10 running east-west through the city, it is now a major regional hub for the trucking sector. East of Los Angeles, the city is located roughly 46 miles. 

In addition to the Auto Club Speedway, which is situated on the grounds of the former Kaiser Steel Mill just outside the city, it also has a municipal park and a restored historic theater. The Fontana Days Half Marathon and 5K marathon are also held in Fontana. The half-marathon course used in this competition is the worlds fastest. 13 

According to the United States Census Bureau, Fontana has 212,704 residents in 2020, making it the 21st most populous city in the state and the second most populous in San Bernardino County. 

History 

In 1919, Azariel Blanchard Miller founded Fontana. 

115 Given its close vicinity to the Santa Ana River to the east, the name fontana, which means fountain or source of water in Italian, was chosen. It quickly developed into an agricultural community along US Route 66, with chicken ranches, vineyards, and citrus orchards (now known as Foothill Boulevard). When Henry J. Kaiser constructed the Kaiser Steel plant,16 one of only two steel mills west of the Mississippi River outside the city boundaries, the Fontana region saw a significant transformation during World War II. Henry J. Kaiser built the Fontana Kaiser Permanente medical center, currently the largest managed care organization in the US, to meet the health requirements of the plant workers. 

Fontana was home to a drag racing track that served as a stop on the NHRA circuit in the 1950s and 1960s. Fontana Drag City or Fontana Drag Strip were other names for Mickey Thompson's Fontana International Dragway. The original Fontana drag strip is no longer there, but in the middle of 2006, the proprietors of NASCAR's brand-new Auto Club Speedway erected an NHRA-sanctioned drag strip nearby. 

Several vintage automobiles from the 1920s and 1930s, including a massive vehicle originally owned by cinema star Fatty Arbuckle, were housed at Ro-automobile Val's museum, which stood on Foothill Boulevard on the western outskirts between Fontana and Cucamonga. The automobiles were sold to Bill Harrah, a casino entrepreneur and car collector from Nevada, after the Ro-Val Museum closed, and he put them on display in the museum within his casino. 

The city had 128,929 residents overall as of the 2000 census, however it is now thought that number has surpassed 210,000. The numerous large, new residential developments in the sparsely populated northern part of the city, as well as the city's aggressive (and highly successful) campaign to annex several unincorporated but developed San Bernardino county island areas between 2006 and 2007, have all contributed significantly to this rapid growth. Geography 

Like its eastern neighbors Rialto and San Bernardino, Fontana is mostly built on top of a geologically young, gently sloping alluvial fan that was formed primarily during the Holocene and late-Pleistocene epochs along Lytle Creek. In the western side of the city, sedimentary deposits from Etiwanda Creek also exist. The much older San Gabriel and Jurupa mountain ranges, on the other hand, define the city's northern and southern boundaries. Both the Jurupa Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains, which also contain much earlier Proterozoic formations, are predominantly made up of rocks from the Cretaceous and Paleozoic eras. 2728 Cucamonga Peak, with an elevation of 8,859 feet, is the San Gabriel Mountains' most notable feature and is visible from Fontana (2,700 m). At the base of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Cucamonga Fault Zone also runs across the northern section of the city, passing particularly through the planned communities of Hunter's Ridge and Coyote Canyon. It is contiguous with the Sierra Madre Fault Zone. It can reportedly cause earthquakes with a magnitude of between 6.0 and 7.0.29 

The city's official elevation is 1,237 feet, calculated at the northeast corner of Upland Avenue and Sierra Avenue in the center of the city, by City Hall (377 m). Nonetheless, the northernmost portion of the Panorama neighborhood of Hunter's Ridge has the greatest elevation within the city limits, which is roughly 2,600 feet (790 m). The intersection of Etiwanda and Philadelphia avenues, in the far southwest of the city, is where the ground drops to its lowest elevation inside the municipal limits, which is roughly 840 feet (260 meters) below sea level. 30 The Lytle Creek alluvial fan's southerly slope is to blame for this disparity in height. 

Climate 

Strong, hot, and dry Santa Ana winds that originate in the Mojave Desert and blow through the neighboring Cajon Pass of the San Gabriel Mountains frequently have an impact on the city. Summertime temperatures in Fontana can reach well over 100 °F (38 °C). 31 

Population 

California's San Bernardino County is home to the city of Fontana. It is the 117th largest city in the United States and the 21st largest city in California with a projected population of 212,089 in 2023. Fontana's population has grown by 1.77% from the most recent census, which showed a population of 208,393 in 2020, and is now rising at a pace of 0.58% annually. Fontana has a population density of 4,924 persons per square mile with a total length of approximately 43 miles. 

With a 15.24% poverty rate, Fontana has an average household income of $88,073. The median monthly cost of rent in recent years has been, and the median value of a home is. In Fontana, the median age is 31.2 years, with men being on average 29.3 years old and women 33.1 years old. 

Along the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino County, California, is where you'll find Fontana. Fontana, which refers to the adjacent Santa Ana River, is Italian for "water source." Although having a similar population to San Bernardino, Fontana is currently the second-largest city in San Bernardino County. It is a part of the Inland Empire, which also includes the Greater Los Angeles area, the second largest metropolitan area in the US, and the counties of San Bernardino and Riverside.