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Pomona, California is positioned in the US Pomona, California - Pomona, California Pomona is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Pomona is positioned in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's populace was 149,058. View to the west-southwest down San Jose Creek from Pomona Park (now Ganesha Park) in 1904.
The town/city is titled for Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruit. For Horticulturist Solomon Gates, "Pomona" was the winning entry in a contest to name the town/city in 1875, before anyone had ever planted a fruit tree The town/city was first settled by Ricardo Vejar and Ygnacio Palomares in the 1830s, when California and much of the now-American Southwest were part of Mexico.
Pomona was officially incorporated on January 6, 1888. In the 1920s Pomona was known as the "Queen of the Citrus Belt", with one of the highest per-capita levels of income in the United States.
In the 1940s it was used as a movie-previewing locale for primary motion picture studios to see how their films would play to modally middle class audiences around the nation (for which Pomona was at that time viewed as an idealized example).
Religious establishments are deeply embedded in the history of Pomona.
In 2005, Pomona people propel Norma Torres, the first woman of Guatemalan tradition to be propel to a mayoral post outside of Guatemala. Pomona is an urban region of Los Angeles County in the Pomona Valley, positioned at 34 3 39 N 117 45 21 W (34.060760, -117.755886). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.964 square miles (59.48 km2), over 99% of it land.
Pomona is approximately 27 miles (43 km) east of downtown Los Angeles, 25 miles (40 km) north of Santa Ana, 31 miles (50 km) west of Riverside, and 37 miles (60 km) west of San Bernardino.
Pomona is bordered by the metros/cities of San Dimas on the northwest, La Verne and Claremont on the north, Montclair and Chino on the east, Chino Hills and Diamond Bar on the south, and Walnut, South San Jose Hills, and Industry on the southwest.
View of the Pomona Valley Pomona has a Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csa) with hot, dry summers and mild, damp winters and a large amount of sunlight year-round.
Climate data for Pomona, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Pomona had a populace of 149,058, a slight diminish from the 2000 census population. The populace density was 6,491.2 citizens per square mile (2,506.3/km ).
The ethnic makeup of Pomona was 71,564 (48.0%) White (12.5% Non-Hispanic White), 10,924 (7.3%) African American, 1,763 (1.2%) Native American, 12,688 (8.5%) Asian, 282 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 45,171 (30.3%) from other competitions, and 6,666 (4.5%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 43,853 citizens (29.4%) under the age of 18, 20,155 citizens (13.5%) aged 18 to 24, 42,311 citizens (28.4%) aged 25 to 44, 31,369 citizens (21.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 11,370 citizens (7.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Pomona had a median homehold income of $49,474, with 21.6% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Since the 1980s, Pomona's newest neighborhood Phillips Ranch, experienced rapid expansion with homes still being assembled in the hilly region between Downtown and Diamond Bar.
Today, Phillips Ranch is nearly all residentiary. Northern Pomona has seen some gentrification with additional housing units added and revamped streetscapes.
Pomona Electronics was originally based in the city.
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city and number of employees are Pomona Unified School District (3,424), Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (3,230), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2,316), Lanterman Developmental Center (1,283), City of Pomona (810), Casa Colina Rehabilitation Center (688), Verizon (596), County of Los Angeles Department of Social Services (383), First Transit (320), and Cal Spas (315).
County Fair and the NHRA Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, (formerly known as Pomona Raceway) Powerade Winternationals Drag Racing competition. The town/city also hosts the Pomona Swap Meet and the Classic Car Show.
See also: List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California 1910 postcard image of Pomona Valley with Mt.
Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, formerly known as "Pomona Raceway" Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose, List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California - Pomona Pomona Envisions the Future mural in the Arts District of Pomona Pomona Fox Theater Cal Poly Pomona City Hall Pomona, California, 1969 Pomona was incorporated on January 6, 1888 and adopted a charter in 1911, making it a charter city. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Pomona Health Center in Pomona. The Los Angeles County Fire Department provides fire department services for Pomona on a contract basis.
In the California State Legislature, Pomona is in the 20th Senate District, represented by Democrat Connie Leyva, and in the 52nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Freddie Rodriguez. In the United States House of Representatives, Pomona is in California's 35th congressional district, represented by Democrat Norma Torres. Most of Pomona and some of the encircling area are served by the Pomona Unified School District.
Pomona High School and Diamond Ranch High School are PUSD's two high schools.
The Claremont Unified School District serves a small section of northern Pomona.
There are three parochial schools positioned in Pomona: St.
Joseph Catholic Elementary School (K 8), and Pomona Catholic Middle School and High School. There is also an Islamic K-12, City of Knowledge Islamic School.
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) is positioned southwest of the junction of the 10 and 57 freeways.
Pomona College was established in Pomona in 1887, but moved to neighboring Claremont, California in 1889.
San Antonio College, positioned in Walnut, California, is adjoining to Cal Poly Pomona, west of the 57 Freeway.
Proud Digital Media (aka Pomona Proud) with a small-town audience 60,000+ Downtown Pomona Metrolink station Pomona is connected to downtown Los Angeles, and to downtown Riverside via Metrolink.
In addition, with the Gold Line Foothill Extension, Pomona will be connected to Los Angeles and easterly Los Angeles county via light rail, when the Gold Line extension is instead of in early 2018.
California 60.svg Pomona Freeway California 210.svg Interstate 210 and State Route 210 (California) Pomona is serviced by: Pomona is served by Foothill Transit.
Omnitrans bus line 61 runs throughout downtown Pomona.
See also: List of Cal Poly Pomona citizens Hamza Abdullah, football player, attended Pomona High School Husain Abdullah, football player, attended Pomona High School Richard Armour, author, interval up in Pomona and attended Pomona College Banks, basketball player for Harlem Globetrotters, raised in Pomona Guy Vernon Bennett, politician, was superintendent of schools in Pomona in 1914 Jim Chandler, author, spent time in Pomona amid his youth Ben Harper, singer-songwriter, born in Pomona Frank Wilcox, actor, lived in Pomona in the 1930s and worked in lemon groves Once lived in Pomona before settling in Waco.
It was rumored that Walt Disney originally prepared on having Disneyland assembled in Pomona, but the town/city council declined his offer, fearing that the park would not succeed and would cause the town/city to go into debt.
According to a reporter for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, David Allen, his former colleague, Matthew Tresaugue had reported, in 1997 story, that Pomona was merely one of 71 considered cities, but was ruled out due to temperature extremes, i.e.
It is interesting to note, however, that author James Ellroy used Pomona as the setting for the fictional amusement park Dream-a-Dreamland in his novel L.A.
Mouse Takes a Trip Mickey and Pluto board a train from Burbank while evading a "no dogs allowed" policy enforced by conductor Pete until coincidentally getting kicked out at their destination, Pomona.
In an I Love Lucy episode, the chief characters of the show "go out to the country" on a day trip to Pomona.
This is now seen as odd due to Pomona since becoming quite urban.
In 1940, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz spent their honeymoon in downtown Pomona.
In the 1979 Steven Spielberg film 1941, is partly set in Pomona.
Hubbins (Michael Mc - Kean) takes a break from music to coach a youth soccer team in Pomona.
In the "Treehouse of Horror XVI" episode of The Simpsons, amid the introductory scene, amid the Springfield Isoptopes's game Pomona was used in a parody of The OC.
A poster background depicting the word Pomona in a The OC template.
The episode was written and produced by Pomona native Marc Wilmore.
In 2003 the film The Cat in the Hat, starring Mike Myers, transformed Pomona's Antique Row into a scene straight from the imagination of Dr.
In 2005 the film Herbie: Fully Loaded, starring Lindsay Lohan, filmed a car race on Pomona's White Avenue.
The 2006 film Alpha Dog, directed by Nick Cassavetes, is based on the true story of the 2000 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz and related affairs, some in Pomona.
In Fear the Walking Dead, Lorenzo James Henrie's character Chris Manawa wears a jacket with Pomona lettering on the back, either referencing Pomona (as a city) or the more likely Pomona High School.
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