San Dimas , Ca
Official City Site
Demographics
Bonita School District
UTILITIES:
| Phone |
Verizon
800-483-4000 |
| Electric |
Southern California Edison
(no branch office)
800-655-4555 |
| Gas |
Southern California Gas Company (no branch office)
800-427-2200 |
| Water |
Southern California Water
800-999-4033 |
| Trash |
Waste Management
909-599-1274
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Information on this page courtesy
of the City of San Dimas
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Welcome to San Dimas, CA
91773
San Dimas, a city of about 35,000 people, is located approximately thirty miles east
of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and
straddling the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. The community started out in the
early 1800s being called Mud Springs, named for the adjacent Mud Springs marsh
whose wet and swampy terrain characterized the region. Though Gabrielino Indians
occupied the area as early as 1000 B.C. and other tribes as much as 7,000 years
ago, it was not until 1774 that white men first ventured into the region, when Spanish
frontier soldier Juan Baptista DeAnza and his partyen route from Mexico to
Montereypassed through the area that later became Mud Springs.
Other explorers and early settlers and cattle ranchers
trickled into the region in the century that followed, but
the community was formally put on the map in 1887,
the year the Santa Fe Railroad was completed and
began operating a rail line through the area. The
railroad¹s arrival triggered a land boom, the newly
formed San Jose RanchCompany laid out streets
and lots, land agent E.M. Marshall opened the
first businessa hardware storeat the corner of Bonita and Depot streets, and the
name Mud Springs was changed to San Dimas.
San Dimas evolved into an agricultural community, especially noted for its orange
and other citrus crops which were shipped all over the world The citrus nurseries
faded and finally disappeared in the mid-1900s with increasing development in San
Dimas. After adjacent communities started annexing pieces of San Dimas in the
late 1950s, it incorporated as a city in 1960. Today, conscious of its heritage, San
Dimas maintains an early western look in its downtown area, complete with wooden
sidewalks and old-fashioned western storefront facades.
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