Duarte, California City of Duarte Official seal of City of Duarte Location of Duarte in Los Angeles County, California Location of Duarte in Los Angeles County, California City of Duarte is positioned in the US City of Duarte - City of Duarte Duarte (/ dw rti / or /du rte /; from Spanish or Portuguese [ dwa te]) is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 21,321, down from 21,486 at the 2000 census.
It is bounded to the north by the San Gabriel Mountains, to the north and west by the metros/cities of Bradbury and Monrovia, to the south by the town/city of Irwindale, and to the east by the metros/cities of Irwindale and Azusa.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.7 square miles (17 km2), all land.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Duarte had a populace of 21,321.
The ethnic makeup of Duarte was 11,076 (51.9%) White (26.9% Non-Hispanic White), 1,587 (7.4%) African American, 179 (0.8%) Native American, 3,361 (15.8%) Asian, 26 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,108 (19.3%) from other competitions, and 984 (4.6%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 20,914 citizens (98.1% of the population) lived in homeholds, 19 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 388 (1.8%) were institutionalized.
There were 7,013 homeholds, out of which 2,458 (35.0%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 3,597 (51.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,004 (14.3%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 363 (5.2%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 4,737 citizens (22.2%) under the age of 18, 1,863 citizens (8.7%) aged 18 to 24, 5,567 citizens (26.1%) aged 25 to 44, 5,776 citizens (27.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,378 citizens (15.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
14,796 citizens (69.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 6,118 citizens (28.7%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Duarte had a median homehold income of $62,250, with 13.4% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. The ethnic makeup of the town/city is 52.02% White, 9.08% Black or African American, 0.94% Native American, 12.62% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 19.99% from other competitions, and 5.23% from two or more competitions, while 43.41% of the populace are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 6,635 homeholds out of which 38.9% have kids under the age of 18 living with them, 54.8% are married couples living together, 13.6% have a female homeholder with no husband present, and 26.3% are non-families.
In the city, the populace is spread out with 28.2% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 29.6% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who are 65 years of age or older.
In the United States House of Representatives, Duarte is in California's 32nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Grace Napolitano. Duarte has a council-manager government with a town/city council whose five members are directly propel by residents.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Monrovia Health Center in Monrovia, serving Duarte. Duarte's history with Europeans dates back to 1769, when all territory in California was claimed by the king of Spain.
The first Europeans visited the San Gabriel Valley, including Duarte, amid a 1769 expedition from San Diego to Monterey Bay commanded by Don Gaspar de Portola.
On September 8, 1771, the Franciscans established the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in the San Gabriel Valley. The mission was a resting point for early California travelers and gathered most of the native Tongva into an agricultural lifestyle.
On May 10, 1841, the governor of Alta California, Juan Bautista Alvarado, granted to former Mexican corporal Andres Duarte and his wife nearly 7,000 acres (28 km2) of prime land in the central-northern San Gabriel Valley.
Duarte titled his new holdings "Rancho Azusa de Duarte".
The name Azusa was derived from Asuksa-gna, the name of the Tongva settlement on the Foothills of California, on the side of the alluvial fan where the San Gabriel River exits the San Gabriel Mountains; a portion of this region forms the northeastern-most corner of Duarte.
That territory grant now comprises portions of Arcadia, portions of Monrovia, all of Bradbury, all of Duarte, portions of Irwindale, portions of Azusa and a portion of Baldwin Park.
Corporal Duarte began incurring legal costs and other debts, which he defrayed by selling portions of his Rancho.
Nehemiah Beardslee, who started the first school in Duarte (which now bears his surname) and laid out the first section of Duarte's water lines.
Corporal Duarte divided much of the Rancho's remainder into 40-acre (16 ha) plots and sold them individually.
Corporal Duarte finally won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court for his territory grant case in 1878, but by then he had sold the entire Rancho.
Many of Duarte's earliest pioneer families came to Duarte in the mid-19th century for their health, the pleasant climate, and the fertile soil.
English settlers, Americans from the Midwest and Deep South, Latinos who remained from the Rancho and Japanese immigrants enabled Duarte to expanded into a grow agricultural improve specializing in citrus production.
In 1913, the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association started a tuberculosis sanitarium in the form of a small tent town/city on 40 acres (16 ha) of territory south of Duarte Road.
A 2001 Los Angeles Times article stated that their petition for incorporation appeared in Sacramento on August 22, 1957, "mere moments" before the petition that would have encompassed them in the City of Duarte.
Still, many ties between the two communities remain in that they both form the Duarte Unified School District; they both share the same postal service and (until October 2008) a ZIP code (91010); and they both share combined enhance services such as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles County Fire Department, and garbage pickup(provided by Burrtec Waste Services).
It consisted of a double-circular seal, with the inner circle including an adobe arch featuring the Rancho Azusa de Duarte "d" brand (inside the arch is the initial date of the Rancho's establishment, 1841) while the outer circle features the year of Duarte's incorporation (1957).
The current town/city logo was created in early 1982 to mark Duarte's 25th anniversary of cityhood.
Like many of its neighbors, undivided Duarte is a bedroom community.
The City of Duarte is geographically isolated from populace centers to the east and south due to the San Gabriel River and modern quarry operations in Irwindale and Azusa.
Due to air character and noise concerns, the City of Duarte has sought repeatedly to halt expansion of neighboring quarry operations, but has had no success against the monied interests behind the quarries and the neighboring town/city governments beholden to them.
Still, over the past several decades, the town/city leadership has succeeded in bringing retail evolution to the portion of Duarte beginning, prominently, with the redevelopment of the Big Sky Drive-in Theater as a shopping plaza with a Gemco superstore (which is now a Target).
And a Grocery Outlet replaced Mike's Foods, in a heavily remodeled section of the Duarte Shopping Center at Huntington and Buena Vista.
In September 2010, Forbes periodical placed Bradbury's ZIP code of 91008 at #1 on its annual list of America's most expensive ZIP codes, but mistakenly identified it as belonging to Duarte freshwater Bradbury. Forbes has refused to admit the error; its website continues to identify 91008 as Duarte. The Duarte Unified School District serves students from Duarte, Bradbury, and unincorporated communities to the south of Duarte and Monrovia.
The precinct contains five elementary schools (Maxwell, Andres Duarte, Beardslee, Royal Oaks, and Valley View), one middle school (Northview Intermediate School), one high school (Duarte High School) and one continuation high school (Mt.
Within Duarte, there are also five licensed private schools.
The Duarte Montessori School is affiliated with the American Montessori Society and serves students from preschool through 2nd grade.
First Baptist Church of Duarte Church of The Foothills: United Methodist Church of Duarte (Most Catholic inhabitants attend mass at Immaculate Conception Church just outside town/city limits in Monrovia, which serves Monrovia, Duarte and Bradbury.) Duarte Christian Church The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) operates the Temple Station in Temple City, serving not only Duarte, but also neighboring Bradbury, while fire protection services are provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department through Station 44 (paramedic services are provided by close-by Stations 29 in Baldwin Park and 32 in Azusa).
Duarte also has its own in-house "Department of Public Safety", where its officers (separate from the LASD) are assigned mainly with issuing citations for various violation of the city's Municipal Code, as well as issuance of dog licenses and bicycle permits.
Duarte improve news are provided by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Duarte Dispatch, which is a weekly improve journal presented by Beacon Media News.
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