El Monte, California City of El Monte Official seal of City of El Monte Location of El Monte in the County of Los Angeles Location of El Monte in the County of Los Angeles City of El Monte is positioned in the US City of El Monte - City of El Monte El Monte / l m nti / is a residentiary, industrial, and commercial town/city in Los Angeles County of Southern California, the United States.
The town/city lies in the San Gabriel Valley east of the town/city of Los Angeles.
El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail." As of 2010, El Monte was the 51st biggest city in California. El Monte is situated between the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo Rivers; inhabitants claimed that anything could be grown in the area.
They called the region 'El Monte,' which in Spanish means 'the mountain'. Most citizens assume the name refers to a mountain, but there were no mountain peaks in the valley.
El Monte is approximately 7 miles long and 4 miles wide. When the State Legislature organized California into more manageable designated townships in the 1850s, they called it the El Monte Township.
In a short time the name returned to the initial El Monte. Oldest home in El Monte, assembled 1849 (photo 1922).
Using the Old Spanish Trail route at the end of 1841, a group of travelers and settlers, now referred to as the Workman-Rowland Party, appeared in the Pueblo of Los Angeles and this region in Alta California from Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico.
The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe was continued east via the Santa Fe Trail trade route, established in 1821 as a trail and wagon road connecting Kansas City in Missouri Territory to Santa Fe, still inside Mexico. From 1847, The Santa Fe Trail was also connected westward through the Southern Emigrant Trail, passing by the El Monte area, to the Pueblo of Los Angeles.
Immigrant settlement began in 1849, El Monte was a stopping place for the American immigrants going to the gold fields amid the California Gold Rush.
The first permanent inhabitants appeared in El Monte around 1849-1850 mostly from Texas, Arkansas and Missouri, amid a time when thousands migrated to California in search of gold.
The farmers were very pleased at the increasing success of El Monte's agricultural community, and it steadily interval over the years. In the 1850s the settlement was briefly titled Lexington by American settlers, but soon returned to being called El Monte or Monte.
Defense against Indian raids and the crimes of bandit gangs, such as that of Juan Flores and Pancho Daniel, led to the formation of a small-town militia business called the Monte Rangers in February 1854. After the Monte Rangers disbanded, justice for Los Angeles County, in the form of a lynching, was often provided by the small-town vigilantes called the "El Monte Boys".
In 1858 the adobe Monte Station was established, a stagecoach stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Section 2 route.
By 1861 El Monte had turn into a sizeable settlement, and amid the American Civil War was considered a Confederate stronghold sympathetic to the secession of Southern California from California to support the Confederate States of America.
King an Undersheriff of Los Angeles County (and former member of the earlier "Monte Rangers" or "Monte Boys") with other influential men in El Monte, formed a secessionist militia company, like the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, called the Monte Mounted Rifles on March 23, 1861.
El Monte was incorporated as a municipality in 1912.
The region also experienced civil and workforce conflict amid this period, as the El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 shed light upon institutional racism experienced by Japanese tenant farmers and Latino farm laborers.
The town/city has evolved into a majority Hispanic community. Representing the historical significance of the Santa Fe Trail, El Monte assembled the Santa Fe Trail Historical Park in 1989, at Valley Blvd and Santa Anita Ave. The trail remained America's greatest route for a several decades after that. The El Monte Historical Museum at 3150 Tyler Avenue is considered to be one of the best improve exhibitions in the state of California. By 2008 there had been an influx of Asians into El Monte.
Bang Tran, a resident of Monrovia and a former El Monte resident quoted in the Los Angeles Times, stated that year that there was overpopulation in Alhambra, Monterey Park, and other close-by heavily Asian municipalities; this is why Asians began moving to El Monte. El Monte is credited with being the place of birth of TV range shows.
Hometown Jamboree, a KTLA-TV Los Angeles-based show, was actually produced at the American Legion Stadium in El Monte, California in the 1950s. The Saturday evening stage show was hosted and produced by Cliffie Stone, who helped popularize nation music in California. The El Monte Legion Stadium, outside the town/city limits, became the site of a series for modern and roll concerts by Johnny Otis and other performers. (Johnny Otis along with Alan Freed and Dick Clark were the primary powers in the burgeoning modern and roll industry.) During the fifties, teenagers from all over Southern California flocked to El Monte Legion Stadium every Friday and Saturday evening to see their favorite performers.
"El Monte Legion Stadium", as it was often called, was the "Happening" place to be for the teenagers of that era. In a closed-circuit telecast, The Beatles and the Beach Boys were seen there on March 14, 1964. El Monte is known for the long-time modern & roll hit "Memories of El Monte", written by Frank Zappa and originally recorded by The Penguins, one of the small-town Doo-wop groups from the 1950s that became famous nationwide.
The song is in remembrance of The El Monte Legion Stadium and can be heard on many albums including Art Laboe's Memories of El Monte.
Although the stadium closed their doors nearly 50 years ago, the music continues to live on. El Monte was the place of birth of singer guitarist Mary Ford, of Les Paul and Mary Ford fame.
El Monte was home to musicians Gregg Myers and Joe Mc - Donald, who performed in the 1960s with Country Joe and the Fish.
Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong fame was an El Monte denizen.
In 1925, El Monte Union High School adopted "The Lions" name for its teams, and the Gays provided a lion mascot for big games.
The initial lion statue, commissioned for the Farm, stands in front of close-by El Monte High School.
Horse racing's most famous jockey, Willie Shoemaker, was a resident and attended El Monte High School, until he dropped out to work in the close-by stables. El Monte was also briefly the home to author James Ellroy until his mother Geneva was murdered there in 1958. Former baseball player Fred Lynn was a resident of El Monte.
Actor-filmmaker Timothy Carey filmed much of his underground feature The World's Greatest Sinner (1962) in El Monte.
Modern authors Salvador Plascencia, 33, and Michael Jaime-Becerra, 36, both interval up in El Monte and each references El Monte in his novels. Mr.
Ed, the Palomino of the classic 60s tv show, was foaled in 1949 in El Monte and titled "Bamboo Harvester". Artist collective "mindfunk" work live art studio is based in El Monte.
El Monte is positioned at 34 4 24 N 118 1 39 W (34.073276, -118.027491). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.6 square miles (25 km2), of which, 9.6 square miles (25 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.89%) is water.
El Monte has a Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csa).
Climate data for El Monte, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that El Monte had a populace of 113,475.
The ethnic makeup of El Monte was 44,058 (38.8%) White (4.9% Non-Hispanic White), 870 (0.8%) African American, 1,083 (1.0%) Native American, 28,503 (25.1%) Asian (13.5% Chinese, 7.4% Vietnamese, 1.2% Filipino, 0.4% Cambodian, 0.2% Burmese, 0.2% Japanese, 0.2% Korean, 0.2% Indian, 0.2% Thai), 131 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 35,205 (31.0%) from other competitions, and 3,625 (3.2%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 32,234 citizens (28.4%) under the age of 18, 12,814 citizens (11.3%) aged 18 to 24, 33,263 citizens (29.3%) aged 25 to 44, 24,567 citizens (21.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 10,597 citizens (9.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
46,802 citizens (41.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 65,593 citizens (57.8%) lived in rental housing units.
According to the 2010 United States Census, El Monte had a median homehold income of $39,535, with 24.3% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. The El Monte City Council has five members.
In the California State Senate, El Monte is in the 22nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Ed Hernandez. In the California State Assembly, it is split between the 48th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Blanca Rubio, and the 49th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Ed Chau. In the United States House of Representatives, El Monte is in California's 32nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Grace Napolitano. The City of El Monte has its own police department and contracts with the Los Angeles County Fire Department for fire services and emergency medical response.
The El Monte Police Department consists of 106 sworn police officers who furnish emergency services to the people of El Monte.
1 El Monte City School District 731 2 El Monte Union High School District 623 5 City of El Monte 429 8 El Monte Adult School 300 Cathay Bank has a corporate center in El Monte. The El Monte Union High School District consists of the following schools: El Monte High School South El Monte High School Ledesma High School, Formerly known as Valley Lindo Continuation School El Monte-Rosemead Adult School The El Monte City School District contains 17 elementary schools: one serving grades K-4, one serving grades K-5, ten serving grades K-6, and six serving grades K-8.
The Mountain View School District is a K-8 school precinct comprising ten elementary schools, one intermediate school, one middle school, an alternative education program for students in grades 5-8, and a Children's Center and Head Start/ State Preschool program.
Monte Vista Elementary School El Monte is served by Metro, Foothill Transit, and the city-operated El Monte Transit.
Metro's Silver Line ends at El Monte Station.
Train service to El Monte is provided by Metrolink's San Bernardino Line, which stops at the El Monte station.
Interstate 10 traverses El Monte.
San Gabriel Valley Airport, a general aviation airport, is positioned in El Monte.
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Monrovia Health Center in Monrovia, serving El Monte. The El Monte Comprehensive Health and Mammography Center is positioned on Ramona Blvd.
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El Monte improve news are provided by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune presented daily, Mid-Valley News and El Monte Examiner are presented weekly.
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