Rancho Cucamonga, California

Rancho Cucamonga is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States, next to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and Angeles National Forest. The 28th most populated city in California is Rancho Cucamonga, which is located about 37 miles (60 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles. The city's seal, which features a cluster of grapes at its center, makes reference to the city's agricultural past, which includes wine production. Numerous significant firms, including Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay, Big Lots, Mercury Insurance Group, Southern California Edison, and Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, have set up shop in the city as a result of its accessibility to major freeways, airports, and transportation hubs.

The 2020 United States Census showed that the city has 174,453 residents. Compared to a national average of 205 days, the city has 287 sunny days on average annually. The world's center for globe painting is located there as well. The Köppen climate classification system assigns its climate the designation of warm Mediterranean, or Csa.

All four high schools were recognized California Gold Ribbon Schools in 2017, according to a statement from the California Department of Education.

The name of the city, specifically the phrase "Cucamonga," became well-known thanks to The Jack Benny Program.

History

Native People from the Kukamongan tribe had built a village settlement by the year 1200 AD close to the city's western border, where the current Red Hill Country Club is located. The name Kukamonga is derived from a Tongva term that means "sandy location." The Tongva or Kich people, who previously made up one of the highest concentrations of Native Americans on the North American continent, have been identified as the group of settlers who most likely belonged to them, according to anthropologists. Following an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola in the 18th century, Father Junipero Serra and his band of soldiers and Franciscan friars added the territory to the Mission System.

After a half-century of political squabbling in the area, Mexico's governor Juan Bautista Alvarado finally gained control of the territory. Alvarado granted 13,000 acres of land in the "Cucamonga" region to Tubercio Tapia on March 3, 1839. Tapia was a first-generation Los Angeles-native Spanish merchant and infamous smuggler. On his freshly acquired property, Tapia later founded California's first winery. John Rains and his wife bought Rancho Cucamonga in 1858. The Casa de Rancho Cucamonga, a house built for the Rains family, is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Properties. It was finished in 1860.

The next years saw the town develop and expand. Chinese laborers began digging irrigation tunnels into Cucamonga Canyon in 1887, and the Santa Fe Railroad was also extended through the region. Agriculture, including olives, peaches, citrus, and, most significantly, vineyards, was one of the town's principal economic drivers. To enhance agricultural transportation, the Pacific Electric Railway was constructed into Rancho Cucamonga in 1913. Today's landmarks honor the city's multiracial founding with a number of them. The Chinatown House serves as a remembrance of the Chinese immigrants who worked to build the area's infrastructure, while Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is a monument to the Mexican agricultural laborers who once called the area home.

The unincorporated villages of Alta Loma, Cucamonga, and Etiwanda decided to become an independent city in 1977, creating Rancho Cucamonga.

Geography

Located just east of Los Angeles County and inland from the Pacific coast, the Inland Empire and San Bernardino County include Rancho Cucamonga. Around 60 kilometers (37 miles) east of Los Angeles, Rancho Cucamonga is bounded on the east by I-15 and Fontana and the west by Upland, Ontario, and the San Gabriel Mountains. Atop an alluvial plain, the city offers views of Cucamonga Peak, one of the San Gabriel Mountains' tallest peaks, from virtually every location. The city is 39.9 sq mi (103 km2) in size, with 99.5% of the area being land and only 0.05% being water.

Economy

Rancho Cucamonga, like its neighbors Ontario and Fontana, is a significant center for the logistics industry in Southern California even though the majority of the city's land area is dedicated to residential neighborhoods. This is a result of the area's accessibility to two interstate highways, the Ontario International Airport, and the space provided by the vast expanses of former agricultural land in the city's southernmost region.

Seven square miles of land are principally occupied by multiple enormous distribution centers and much more smaller manufacturing businesses in the vicinity of Milliken Avenue, between Archibald and Etiwanda Avenues, Foothill Boulevard, and Fourth Street. Office parks, mostly located along Haven Avenue, shopping centers, such as Terra Vista Town Center (a part of a nearly two-square-mile master-planned community in the city's center), and malls, like Victoria Gardens and the Ontario Mills, which are located across Fourth Street in Ontario, all surround this area.

In addition, the city is home to the only Californian minimill for long steel, CMC Steel (previously Gerdau, formerly TAMCO Steel). Rebar is made at this mill by recycling ferrous scrap, including old vehicles and appliances.

The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes play their minor league baseball games at LoanMart Field, originally The Epicenter, in this city. Tremor, the mascot of the Quakes, is a rallysaurus.

Population

California's San Bernardino County is home to the city of Rancho Cucamonga. It is the 158th largest city in the United States and the 29th largest city in California with a projected population of 177,207 in 2023. Rancho Cucamonga's population has grown by 1.58% from the most recent census, which showed a population of 174,453 in 2020, and is now rising at a rate of 0.52% annually. Rancho Cucamonga, which spans more than 40 miles, has a population density of 4,417 persons per square mile.

With an 8.21% poverty rate, Rancho Cucamonga has an average household income of $108,525 per year. The median monthly cost of rent in recent years has been, and the median value of a home is. In Rancho Cucamonga, the median age is 36.8 years, 34.7 years for men and 38.9 years for women.

37 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, in San Bernardino County, California, is where you'll find Rancho Cucamonga. The 19th largest city in Southern California and the 7th largest city in the Inland Empire, which is made up of the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, is Rancho Cucamonga.