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EspañolSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
'San Bernardino County' is the largest county in the contiguous United States by area, containing more land than each of nine states. The county is larger in area than the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware combined. Any of those states could be replaced in the list by New Jersey, Vermont, or New Hampshire.
Coconino County, Arizona, is second, Nye County, Nevada, is third, and neighboring Inyo County is fourth at less than 1/2 the size. On the other hand, the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, the largest county-equivalent in the country, is over seven times the size.
Located in the southeast of the state of California, the deserts and mountains of this vast county stretch from the outskirts of the densely populated Greater Los Angeles Area to the Nevada border and the Colorado River. The fast growing county had a 2007 population estimate by the California Department of Finance was 2,028,013 (12th in the country but only 4th in the state), largely located in its more populated southwestern portions. The county seat is San Bernardino. Its southwestern portions (the more urbanized part of San Bernardino County) are considered to be part of the Inland Empire region of Southern California, a bicounty area.
History
Father Francisco Dumetz named San Bernardino on May 20, 1810, feast day of St. Bernardino of Siena.
San Bernardino County was formed from parts of Los Angeles County in 1853. Parts of the county's territory were given to Riverside County in 1893.
The Franciscans gave the name San Bernardino to the snowcapped peak in southern California, in honor of the saint and it is from him that the county derives its name.
Geography
The Mojave National Preserve covers some of the eastern desert, especially between Interstate 15 and Interstate 40. The desert portion also includes the cities of Needles next to the Colorado River, and Barstow at the junction in Interstate 15 and Interstate 40. Trona is at the northwestern part of the county west of Death Valley. This famous national park, mostly within Inyo County, also has a small portion of land within the county. The largest metropolitan area in the Mojave Desert part of the county is the Victor Valley with the incorporated localities of Apple Valley, Victorville, Adelanto, and Hesperia. Further south, a portion of Joshua Tree National Park overlaps the county near Twentynine Palms. Additional places near and west of Twentynine palms include Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, and Morongo Valley.
The mountains are home to the San Bernardino National Forest, and include the communities of Crestline, Lake Arrowhead, Running Springs, Big Bear City, Forest Falls, and Big Bear Lake.
The San Bernardino Valley is at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Valley, and is part of the Inland Empire. The San Bernardino Valley includes the cities of Ontario, Chino, Chino Hills, Upland, Fontana, Rialto, Colton, Grand Terrace, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Loma Linda, Highland, Redlands, and Yucaipa.
The Inland Empire area of Southern California is made up of the southwestern portion of San Bernardino County and western portion of Riverside county.
Incorporated communities
★ Adelanto ★ Apple Valley ★ Barstow ★ Big Bear Lake ★ Chino ★ Chino Hills ★ Colton ★ Fontana ★ Grand Terrace ★ Hesperia ★ Highland ★ Loma Linda | ★ Montclair ★ Needles ★ Ontario ★ Rancho Cucamonga ★ Redlands ★ Rialto ★ San Bernardino ★ Twentynine Palms ★ Upland ★ Victorville ★ Yucaipa ★ Yucca Valley |
Unincorporated communities
★ Amboy ★ Angelus Oaks ★ Baker ★ Baldwin Lake ★ Big Bear City ★ Big River ★ Bloomington ★ Bluewater ★ Cadiz ★ Cedar Glen ★ Crestline ★ Daggett ★ Devore ★ Devore Heights ★ Earp ★ Forest Falls ★ Fort Irwin ★ Goffs ★ Helendale ★ Hinkley (See related: Erin Brockovich) ★ Joshua Tree ★ Kramer Junction ★ Lake Arrowhead ★ Landers ★ Lenwood ★ Lucerne Valley ★ Lytle Creek | ★ Mentone ★ Morongo Valley ★ Mountain View Acres ★ Muscoy ★ Nebo Center ★ Newberry Springs ★ Nipton ★ Oak Hills ★ Oro Grande ★ Phelan ★ Pinon Hills ★ Red Mountain ★ Running Springs ★ Rice ★ Rimforest ★ San Antonio Heights ★ Skyforest ★ Sugarloaf ★ Searles Valley ★ Trona ★ Twentynine Palms Base ★ Twin Peaks ★ Valley of Enchantment (VOE) ★ Wrightwood ★ Yermo |
Adjacent counties
★ Inyo County, California- north
★ Clark County, Nevada- northeast
★ Mohave County, Arizona- east
★ La Paz County, Arizona- southeast
★ Riverside County, California- south
★ Orange County, California- southwest
★ Los Angeles County, California- west
★ Kern County, California- west
San Bernardino County, California, is one of the few counties in the United States to border as many as 8 counties.
Transportation infrastructure
Major highways
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Public transportation
★ Omnitrans provides transit service in the urbanized portion of San Bernardino County, serving the City of San Bernardino, as well as the area between Montclair and Yucaipa.
★ Foothill Transit connects the Inland Empire area to the San Gabriel Valley and downtown Los Angeles.
★ OCTA connects Chino to Irvine and Brea.
★ RTA connects Montclair to Riverside County.
★ Victor Valley Transit Authority operates buses in Victorville, Hesperia, Adelanto, Apple Valley and the surrounding county area.
★ Barstow Area Transit serves Barstow and the surrounding county area.
★ Mountain Area Regional Transit Authority (MARTA) covers the Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear regions. Limited service is also provided to Downtown San Bernardino.
★ Morongo Basin Transit Authority provides bus service in Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms (including the Marine base). Limited service is also provided to Palm Springs.
★ San Bernardino County is also served by Greyhound buses and Amtrak trains. Metrolink commuter trains connect the urbanized portion of the county with Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties.
Airports
★ Commercial passenger flights are available at L.A./Ontario International Airport.
★ San Bernardino International Airport and Southern California Logistics Airport (Victorville) are major cargo and general aviation airports.
★ The County of San Bernardino owns six general aviation airports: Apple Valley Airport, Baker Airport, Barstow-Daggett Airport, Chino Airport, Needles Airport, and Twentynine Palms Airport.
★ Other general aviation airports in the county include: Big Bear City Airport, Cable Airport (Upland), and Redlands Municipal Airport
Colleges and universities
★ Barstow College
★ California State University, San Bernardino
★ Chaffey College
★ Crafton Hills College
★ Loma Linda University
★ San Bernardino Valley College
★ University of Redlands
★ Victor Valley College
★ University of La Verne
Politics
| Year | GOP | Dems |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | '55.3%' ''289,306 | 43.6% ''227,789 |
| 2000 | '48.7%' ''221,757 | 47.2% ''214,749 |
| 1996 | 43.6% ''180,135 | '44.4%' ''183,372 |
| 1992 | 37.2% ''176,563 | '38.7%' ''183,634 |
| 1988 | '60.0%' ''235,167 | 38.5% ''151,118 |
| 1984 | '64.8%' ''222,071 | 34.0% ''116,454 |
| 1980 | '59.7%' ''172,957 | 31.7% ''91,790 |
| 1976 | '49.5%' ''113,265 | 47.9% ''109,636 |
| 1972 | '59.7%' '144,689 | 35.5% ''85,986 |
| 1968 | '50.1%' ''111,974 | 40.0% ''89,418 |
| 1964 | 42.8% ''92,145 | '57.1%' ''123,012 |
| 1960 | '52.0%' ''99,481 | 47.5% ''90,888 |
San Bernardino county voter registration and voting pattern lean to the Republican Party. However, the city is split between poorer, heavily Latino, heavily Democratic areas and wealthy suburbs. For example, the heavily Latino cities of Ontario and San Bernandino went for John Kerry in 2004. However, these cities had abysmal voter turnout; in 2006, San Bernandino's population exceeded 201,000, and in 2004, cast a mere 42,520 votes. In 2006, strongly Republican Rancho Cucamonga had over 145,000 people, and cast 53,054 votes.
Demographics
As of the census² of 2000, there were 1,709,434 people, 528,594 households, and 404,374 families residing in the county. The population density was 33/km² (85/mi²). There were 601,369 housing units at an average density of 12/km² (30/mi²). The racial makeup of the county was 58.91% White, 9.09% African American, 1.17% Native American, 4.69% Asian, 0.30% Pacific Islander, 20.82% from other races, and 5.03% from two or more races. 39.16% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 66.1% spoke English, 27.7% Spanish and 1.1% Tagalog as their first language.
There were 528,594 households out of which 43.70% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.80% were married couples living together, 14.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.50% were non-families. 18.40% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.15 and the average family size was 3.58.
In the county the population was spread out with 32.30% under the age of 18, 10.30% from 18 to 24, 30.20% from 25 to 44, 18.70% from 45 to 64, and 8.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 99.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.20 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $42,066, and the median income for a family was $46,574. Males had a median income of $37,025 versus $27,993 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,856. About 12.60% of families and 15.80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.60% of those under age 18 and 8.40% of those age 65 or over.
Median household income by community
★ Chino Hills, California: $95,990
★ San Antonio Heights, California: $75,557
★ Rancho Cucamonga, California: $60,931
★ Lake Arrowhead, California: $60,826
★ Chino, California: $55,401
★ Grand Terrace, California: $53,649
★ Running Springs, California: $50,524
★ Wrightwood, California: $50,338
★ Upland, California: $48,734
★ Redlands, California: $48,155
★ Mountain View Acres, California: $45,787
★ Fontana, California: $45,782
★ Crestline, California: $44,257
★ Ontario, California: $42,452
★ Rialto, California: $41,254
★ Highland, California: $41,230
★ Mentone, California: $41,225
★ Montclair, California: $40,797
★ Apple Valley, California: $40,421
★ Hesperia, California: $40,201
★ Yucaipa, California: $39,144
★ Nebo Center, California: $39,028
★ Loma Linda, California: $38,204
★ Victorville, California: $38,187
★ Lenwood, California: $37,845
★ Morongo Valley, California: $36,357
★ Trona, California: $35,883
★ Colton, California: $35,777
★ Big Bear City, California: $35,615
★ Barstow, California: $35,069
★ Big Bear Lake, California: $34,447
★ Bloomington, California: $34,106
★ Adelanto, California: $31,594
★ Twentynine Palms, California: $31,178
★ Yucca Valley, California: $30,240
★ Muscoy, California: $26,635
★ Joshua Tree, California: $26,535
★ Needles, California: $26,108
★ Big River, California: $23,488
★ Bluewater, California: $18,750
Gang violence
The Inland Empire is well known for its Chicano gangs. The most well-known gangs are the Onterio Varrio Sur Black Angels gang and the West Side Verdugo gang, also known as the Verdugo Flats Gang, who usually tags VFG in various parts of west San Bernardino, particularly around Mount Vernon Avenue. Fueled by drug money and the ease of communication brought on by affordable cell phones, the street gangs have flourished and spread across and beyond the Inland Empire in the face of sporadic and ineffective law enforcement efforts and inadequate intervention strategies. Incidents of gang violence in San Bernardino County have increased since the 1960s, while at the same time growing more brutal. There are now an estimated 68,600 gang members in 287 gangs in the Inland Empire.
Sergeant Phil Brown of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said the gangs are growing more violent in the farthest reaches of the county, including the High Desert. Racial tensions among the Chicano gangs and the Afro-American gangs have heightened dramatically in the Inland Empire, causing even the most rural areas to be affected. "It's getting out in more remote areas," Brown said. "They go gang against gang. There's more gang violence to the general public and it's becoming more random.." [1]
Places of interest
★ The Mojave National Preserve
★ Calico Ghost Town northeast of Barstow via Interstate 15
★ Zzyzx (The name of a road and rural community in the County)
★ Amboy, a ghost town along Route 66
★ Joshua Tree National Park
★ San Bernardino National Forest home to Big Bear outdoor activities
★ Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Residents of note
Including current residents, as well as former residents who have made their mark in history.
★ Glen Bell, founder of Taco Bell
★ Landon Donovan, professional soccer player for the U.S. National Team and the Major League Soccer Los Angeles Galaxy.
★ Ricky Dominguez, actor
★ James Cooksey Earp, one of the "Fighting Earps" of Dodge City, and Tombstone fame. Buried in Mountain View Cemetery,
★ San Bernardino
★ Morgan Earp, US Marshall killed in Tombstone, Arizona, and buried in Hermosa Gardens Cemetery, Colton, California, one of the "Fighting Earps" of Tombstone fame.
★ Nicholas Porter Earp, Justice of the Peace, coroner, judge, preacher, saloon owner, gambler, father of the "Fighting Earps".
★ Virgil Earp, one of the "Fighting Earps" of Dodge City, and Tombstone fame. US Marshall, Arizona Territory. Lived in Vanderbilt, California.
★ Wyatt Earp, one of the "Fighting Earps" of Dodge City, and Tombstone fame. Lived in San Timeteo Canyon, Colton and Vidal. Earp, California and owned a gold mine in the nearby Whipple Mountains.
★ Jefferson Hunt, western pioneer
★ Eddie Lawson, four-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
★ John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban" fighter now incarcerated in ADX Florence.
★ Dick and Mac McDonald, the fast food pioneering brothers of what became McDonald's Corporation
★ Tim Powers, fantasy author
★ Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
★ Spike (Peanuts), the fictional canine resident from the Needles area
★ Randy Rhoads, guitar prodigy who played with Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Oz, is laid to rest in Mount View Cemetery
See also
★ List of California counties
★ List of school districts in San Bernardino County, California
External links
★ San Bernardino California Traffic School : Rules & Regulations
★ San Bernardino County website
★ San Bernardino County Museum website
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