Chino, California Chino, California City of Chino Flag of Chino, California Flag Official seal of Chino, California Official logo of Chino, California Location of Chino inside Southwestern San Bernardino County, California.
Location of Chino inside Southwestern San Bernardino County, California.
Chino, California is positioned in the US Chino, California - Chino, California Chino is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
It is positioned in the end of the Riverside-San Bernardino Area and it is easily accessible via the Chino Valley (71) and Pomona (60) freeways.
Chino is bounded by Chino Hills to the west, unincorporated San Bernardino County (near Montclair) to the north, Ontario to the northeast, unincorporated San Bernardino County to the southeast, and unincorporated Riverside County to the south.
Chino and its surroundings have long been a center of agriculture and dairy farming, serving the considerable demands for milk products in Southern California and much of the southwestern United States.
Chino's rich agricultural history dates back to the Spanish territory grant forming Rancho Santa Ana del Chino.
Downtown Chino is home to satellite chapters of the San Bernardino County Library and Chaffey Community College, the Chino Community Theatre, the Chino Boxing Club and a weekly Farmer's Market.
In 2008, the town/city of Chino was awarded the prestigious "100 Best Communities for Youth" award for the second time in three years. Chino hosted shooting affairs for the 1984 Summer Olympics at the Prado Olympic Shooting Park in the Prado Regional Park.
Two California state prisons for grownups (California Institution for Men and California Institution for Women), as well as the Heman G.
9 Chino in prominent culture The territory grant on which the town was established was called Rancho Santa Ana del Chino.
One explanation is that the "Chino" (curly-haired person or mixed-race person) was the chief of the small-town Native American village. The president of the Chino Valley Historical Society, drawing on US Civil War-era letters, designates the "curl" referenced in the toponym as that at the top of the grama grass that abounded in the valley. Some twenty years later, Mexican governor of Alta California Juan Bautista Alvarado granted Rancho Santa Ana del Chino to Antonio Maria Lugo of the prominent Lugo family.
One of the latter was James Beckwourth, who, in 1840, posed as an otter hunter and stayed at Rancho Chino to determine the locale of the area's animals, which he then reported to Walkara, the Ute mastermind of the raids.
Early in the Mexican-American War, the Battle of Chino took place at Williams' rancho.
The Williams claim to the Chino Rancho was patented in 1869.
It became the 'Town of Chino,' and incorporated into a town/city in 1910. Sugar beets, corn, and alfalfa were raised there.
The Chino Valley, positioned at the foot of an alluvial plain with fertile topsoil reaching depths of 4 feet, was an agricultural mecca from the 1890s up through the mid 20th century.
Chino Valley Creamery, c.1900 Chino's large, highly efficient dairies made it the biggest milk-producing improve in the nation's biggest milk-producing state.
Because of its pastoral setting and non-urban flavor, Chino was a prominent site for Hollywood crews to shoot "midwestern" settings.
1960's movies encompassed Bus Riley's Back in Town starring Ann-Margret and Michael Parks; The Stripper, with Joanne Woodward, and the mid-60s TV series Twelve O'Clock High, re-fashioning Chino's non-urban airport as a British airfield with quonset huts among farm fields.
In the 1970s, Chino advanced into a small suburban city, forming the anchor of the Inland Empire region, and now the city's evolution has gradually taken on a more middle-class character.
1 Chino Valley Unified School District Over 1,000 4 Chino Valley Medical Center 500-1,000 Chino is a part of the Chino Valley Unified School District.
Chino has had 11 elementary schools: Chino has 3 junior high schools: Chino has 3 high schools: Chino High School Chino has 1 charter school: Chino has 1 Fundamental School: Chino is positioned at 34 1 4 N 117 41 24 W (34.017765, -117.689990). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.7 square miles (77 km2).
Chino is a suburb in San Bernardino County, positioned 33 miles (53 km) from the county seat, San Bernardino.
Climate data for Chino, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Chino had a populace of 77,983.
The ethnic makeup of Chino was 43,981 (56.4%) White (27.8% Non-Hispanic White), 4,829 (6.2%) African American, 786 (1.0%) Native American, 8,159 (10.5%) Asian, 168 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 16,503 (21.2%) from other competitions, and 3,557 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 19,737 citizens (25.3%) under the age of 18, 8,530 citizens (10.9%) aged 18 to 24, 25,091 citizens (32.2%) aged 25 to 44, 18,954 citizens (24.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,671 citizens (7.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Chino had a median homehold income of $71,671, with 9.6% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. With respect to the United States House of Representatives, Chino is in the 35th and 39th congressional districts, which are represented by Norma Torres (D Pomona) and Ed Royce (R Fullerton), in the order given. With respect to the California State Legislature, Chino is in the 20th Senate District, represented by Democrat Connie Leyva, and in the 52nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Freddie Rodriguez. Chino in prominent culture The term Chino is often mentioned in music and tv but usually in reference to the prison positioned there and not the city.
In the film The Big Lebowski, Walter (John Goodman) mentions Jesus Quintana, played by John Turturro, served six months in Chino's prison for exposing himself to an eight-year-old boy.
In the tv series The O.C., the chief character, Ryan Atwood, is a tough kid from Chino adopted into a wealthy family in Newport Beach.
The negative depiction of Chino led to complaints from town/city officials that Chino was being depicted as a "dirtbag town." Chino was used as a locale amid the recording of the movies Macabre and Back to the Future, especially the latter's farmland setting when Marty first travels back in time to 1955.
Chino is mentioned in Alejandro Escovedo's song "Smoke", off the album Real Animal.
Chino is mentioned in Robert Hunter's song "Friend of the Devil", performed by the Grateful Dead.
The Mountain Goats have written a several music about Chino.
The song "Going to Chino" applauds the town/city for its rich agriculture and accredited medical care.
The song "Pigs That Ran Straightaway into the Water, Triumph of", about being sent to prison, makes references to Chino.
In the movie Heat starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the men's prison in Chino is referred to as a "gladiator academy". In the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious Chino is referenced.
The Blasters refer to doing time at Chino State Prison in a song on their live album.
In the movie, American History X, the protagonist was sent to the Chino State Prison.
In the sitcom The Big Bang Theory Season 1 Episode 4, Penny drives Sheldon to the Supermarket in "Pasadena" which in actuality is Central Ave in Chino.
An episode of The Tyra Banks Show was filmed at the California Institution for Women, positioned in southeast Chino.
Sideshow Bob, on an episode of The Simpsons, longed for the later curfew hours in Chino, but the guard assured him that he spoke with the warden at Chino, and that the curfew was the same.
On a skit of Saturday Night Live ("The Californians") Trey (Kenan Thompson) unexpectedly shows up at a party, then Stewart (Fred Armisen) says that he's "supposed to be at the Chino Correctional Facility".
Snoop Dogg mentions having a home out in the hills right next to Chino in his duet with the late Tupac Shakur in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted, referring to his home in close-by Diamond Bar.
Jim Rockford visited Chino Prison amid one of his cases in The Rockford Files City of Chino, CA.
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