Fontana, California Fontana, California City of Fontana Fontana as seen from Mount Jurupa, looking north towards the Cajon Pass.
Fontana as seen from Mount Jurupa, looking north towards the Cajon Pass.
Official seal of Fontana, California Location of Fontana in California Location of Fontana in California Fontana is positioned in the US Fontana - Fontana Fontana (/f n t n /) is a town/city of 203,003 inhabitants in San Bernardino County, California.
It is now a county-wide core of the trucking industry, with Interstate 10 and State Route 210 transecting the town/city from east to west, and Interstate 15 passing diagonally through its northwestern quadrant.
Fontana also hosts the Fontana Days Half Marathon and 5 - K run.
The United States Enumeration Bureau estimated Fontana's 2013 populace at 203,003, making it the second most crowded city in San Bernardino county and the 20th biggest in the state. The name fontana is Italian for fountain or water source, being in close adjacency to the Santa Ana River to the west.
8.6 Healthy Fontana 9.3 Fontana Community Senior Center 9.6 Jessie Turner Health & Fitness Community Center, Aquatics Center & Fontana Park Fontana was established in 1913 by Azariel Blanchard Miller. Within a several years it became an agricultural town of citrus orchards, vineyards and chicken ranches astride U.S.
The Fontana region was radically transformed amid World War II when Henry J.
Kaiser constructed the Fontana Kaiser Permanente medical facility, now the biggest managed care organization in the United States.
In the 1950s and '60s, Fontana was home to a drag racing strip that was a venue in the NHRA circuit.
Mickey Thompson's Fontana International Dragway was also referred to as Fontana Drag City or Fontana Drag Strip.
The initial Fontana strip is long since defunct, but the owners of NASCAR's new Auto Club Speedway opened a new NHRA-sanctioned drag strip in Fontana in mid-2006 to resurrect Fontana's drag-racing heritage.
Ro-Val's automobile exhibition, positioned on Foothill Boulevard on the outskirts between Fontana and Cucamonga, was for a while the home for many classic automobiles of the 1920s and '30s, including a huge vehicle once owned by screen actor Fatty Arbuckle.
As of the 2000 census, the town/city had a total populace of 128,929, but the present populace is now estimated to have reached over 200,000 (2013).
This rapid expansion had much to do with the various large, new residentiary developments in the almost totally undeveloped northern part of the city, as well as with the city's aggressive (and highly successful) campaign to annex a several unincorporated, but developed, San Bernardino county island areas in 2006 2007.
Most of the town/city of Fontana, like its easterly neighbors Rialto and San Bernardino, is assembled up on a geologically young, gently southward-sloping alluvial fan from close-by Lytle Creek, deposited mainly amid the Holocene and late-Pleistocene epochs.
There are also sedimentary deposits of similar age from Etiwanda Creek on the edge of the city.
However, the northern and southern edges of the town/city are formed by the much older San Gabriel and Jurupa mountain peaks, in the order given.
The Jurupa Mountains are composed primarily of Cretaceous and Paleozoic-era rocks, as are the San Gabriels, which also include even older, Proterozoic formations. The most prominent of the San Gabriel Mountains visible from Fontana is Cucamonga Peak, altitude 8,859 feet (2,700m).
Additionally, the Cucamonga Fault Zone, adjoining with the Sierra Madre Fault Zone, runs through the northern part of the city, along the base of the San Gabriels, prominently through the Hunter's Ridge and Coyote Canyon prepared communities.
The city's listed elevation, calculated from the northeast corner of the intersection of Upland Avenue and Sierra Avenue, downtown by City Hall, is 1,237 feet (377 m).
The town/city is incessantly affected by the strong, hot and dry Santa Ana winds as they blow through the close-by Cajon Pass of the San Gabriel mountain peaks, from the Mojave Desert.
Fontana can also be extremely hot in summer, well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Climate data for Fontana, California As of the census of 2000, there were 128,929 citizens , 34,014 homeholds, and 29,013 families residing in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 37.8% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 32.4% from 25 to 44, 14.7% from 45 to 64, and 4.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Fontana had a populace of 196,069.
The ethnic makeup of Fontana was 92,978 (47.4%) White (15.4% Non-Hispanic White), 19,574 (10.0%) African American, 1,957 (1.0%) Native American, 12,948 (6.6%) Asian, 547 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 58,449 (29.8%) from other competitions, and 9,616 (4.9%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 64,521 citizens (32.9%) under the age of 18, 22,995 citizens (11.7%) aged 18 to 24, 57,646 citizens (29.4%) aged 25 to 44, 39,823 citizens (20.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,084 citizens (5.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Fontana had a median homehold income of $64,195, with 15.0% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Fontana's current economy is driven largely by industrialized uses, especially trucking-based industries.
The town/city is home to a several truck dealerships, and other industrialized equipment revenue centers, and, like its neighbors Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga, many product distribution centers for such companies as Toyota, Target, Sears, Mercedes-Benz, Southern California Edison, Home Shopping Network, and Avery Dennison.
Fontana's economy has also heavily encouraged, at least until such activities had been somewhat hampered by the Subprime mortgage crisis, the planning, developing and assembly of new housing tracts.
The town/city also has various small-town shopping centers, such as the Summit Heights Gateway/Falcon Ridge Town Center at the north end of the city, and Palm Court in the southern section.
The official Fontana Auto Center is part of that zone, with two primary dealerships already in place.
According to the City's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 Fontana Unified School District 3,939 3 City of Fontana 1,883 Although technically not inside the town/city limits, the speedway brings tens of thousands of racing fans and dozens of squads to the region for a several days each year, which can be a primary boom for small-town restaurants, motels, hotels, and auto service stations.
Fontana City Hall, on Sierra Avenue Fontana is a general law city; it has no town/city charter.
The mayor, councilmembers, town/city clerk, and town/city treasurer are propel at-large to serve four-year terms. According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the city's various funds had $348.0 million in Revenues, $224.0 million in expenditures, $1,371.6 million in total assets, $754.1 million in total liabilities, and $251.3 million in cash and investments. Effective July 1, 2008, the town/city of Fontana formed its own Fire Protection District (similar to a Fire Department).
Fontana has continued with its previous fire protection provider (now as a contract city) with the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
Fontana also maintains its own police department, but for the unincorporated areas (like the close-by town of Bloomington), the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is used (mainly from the Fontana satellite station, or backup deputies from the West Valley/Rancho Cucamonga Regional Station).
In the California State Legislature, Fontana is in the 20th Senate District, represented by Democrat Connie Leyva, and in the 47th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Eloise Reyes. In the United States House of Representatives, Fontana is split between California's 31st, and 35th districts, which are represented by Democrat Pete Aguilar and Democrat Norma Torres, in the order given.
One of the more prominent and well-known landmarks of the town/city is the Lewis Library and Technology Center, which opened in April 2008.
A room of historical documents, maintained by the Fontana Historical Society; While most inhabitants of the town/city attend schools inside the Fontana Unified School District, some areas of the town/city are served by neighboring school districts.
The Northwest region of the town/city is partly served by the Etiwanda School District (K thru 8 only) and the Chaffey Joint Union High School District (High Schools only).
The Southeast region of the town/city is partly served by the Colton Joint Unified School District.
The Northeast region of the town/city is partly served by the Rialto Unified School District.
There are two Options For Youth Charter Schools in Fontana.
The town/city of Fontana is ten minutes away from Ontario International Airport. The town/city is also served by Omnitrans bus service. Fontana receives electrical power through the Southern California Edison Company.
Fontana is served by five different water companies, but none of their service areas overlap.
These companies are: Fontana Water; the Cucamonga Valley Water District; Marygold Mutual Water; and West Valley Water District, and the town/city of Rialto.
Sewage service in the town/city is provided by the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, but is billed out by the town/city of Fontana itself. The Fontana improve is serviced by KFON-TV (commonly known as Fontana Community Television), a Government-access tv (GATV) cable tv. Fontana is home to the Kaiser Permanente-Fontana Hospital.
Also, positioned in the north end of the city, along the "Miracle Mile" of Sierra Lakes Parkway and the 210 freeway, is the Sierra San Antonio Medical Plaza, a 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2) outpatient center and medical office building supported by San Antonio Community Hospital.
Boller, the former Fontana (movie) Theater was recently renovated amid 2004 2008 after a several decades of various other uses, into a live dinner theater, with $6,000,000 in funds earmarked by the Fontana City Council.
The Art Depot is one of Fontana's initial improve centers, and is a specialized Cultural Arts facility.
The city's Artist Showcase program at town/city hall was advanced in order to demonstrate Fontana's dedication to the Cultural Arts.
Through the provision of quarterly artist showcases, Fontana inhabitants are introduced to small-town artists.
Each artist chose for the quarterly showcases is asked to exhibit their work for a three-month reconstructionin the City Council Chamber Foyer positioned at City Hall.
The artist will also be showcased in a small presentation, invited to dine with the members of the Fontana Community and presented to City Council.
Additionally, each artist chose will be awarded a nominal stipend from the small-town Fontana company community. Auto Club Speedway, a racetrack that plays host to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Xfinity Series, along with the Indy - Car Series and various lesser competitions, is positioned in an unincorporated part of Fontana, on Cherry Avenue.
Healthy Fontana is a program dedicated to grade lifestyle choices and healthier habits in the form of nutrition and fitness.
Healthy Fontana provides educational classes programs throughout the town/city of Fontana. The Center opened its doors in the heart of downtown Fontana for over 30 years.
Located in South Fontana, Don Day Neighborhood Center is a center filled with activities and fun.
Fontana Community Senior Center An arts and crafts room, art loggia, banquet and conference room, billiard and card parlor room, resting areas, computer lab and digital theater room and a library are just some of the many rooms the Center has to offer.
The center has many rooms that can be used for arts and crafts, the Tiny Tots program, and rooms available for rental.
Jessie Turner Health & Fitness Community Center, Aquatics Center & Fontana Park Upon opening to the enhance on October 25, 2008, Fontana Park (located in the northern part of the town/city at Summit Avenue and Lytle Creek Road), is now the city's second biggest municipal park, featuring a large state-of-the-art improve center (Jessie Turner Health and Fitness Community Center), aquatic center, skate park, dog park, basketball gym, sports pavilion, and a several child-oriented play areas.
The Jessie Turner Health & Fitness Community Center has many unique classes and programs available all throughout the year such as: Tiny Tot program, day camps, holiday affairs and even multiple rooms that can be rented.
Fontana is also home to the Mary Vagle Nature Center.
Situated at the base of Mount Jurupa in the southern part of the city, it offers an opportunity for a wide range of surroundingal education activities, including a reptile viewing area, displays, a diorama, and hands on programs.
The Miller Fitness Center also partners with Healthy Fontana to bring the enhance a chance to participate in a walking club.
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