Rialto, California City of Rialto Flag of Rialto, California Flag Official seal of Rialto, California Location of Rialto in California Location of Rialto in California Rialto is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Rialto is home to four primary county-wide distribution centers: Staples Inc., which serves stores athwart the entire West Coast of the United States, Toys "R" Us, Under Armour and Target in the northern region of the city, in the Las Colinas community.
One of the United States' biggest fireworks companies, Pyro Spectaculars, is also headquartered in Rialto.
Rialto also known as "Bridge City" features a somewhat cooler version of a Mediterranean climate which may be characterized as a Continental Mediterranean climate, which is known for wet, cool to chilly winters with hot, dry summers.
Rialto gets an average of 16 inches (410 mm) of rain, and maybe hail most of this rainfall precipitates in winter.
During winter, Rialto's northern-most neighborhood gets snow, heavily at times as a result of its altitude of about 3,000 feet (910 m) above sea level.
The cyclic Santa Ana winds are felt especially firmly in not only Rialto but the greater San Bernardino region as warm and dry air is channeled through close-by Cajon Pass at times amid the autumn months.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.4 square miles (58 km2).
In the city, the populace is spread out with 37.7% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 16.4% from 45 to 64, and 6.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Rialto had a populace of 99,171.
The ethnic makeup of Rialto was 43,592 (44.0%) White (12.6% Non-Hispanic White), 16,236 (16.4%) African American, 1,062 (1.1%) Native American, 2,258 (2.3%) Asian, 361 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 30,993 (31.3%) from other competitions, and 4,669 (4.7%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 32,604 citizens (32.9%) under the age of 18, 12,204 citizens (12.3%) aged 18 to 24, 26,802 citizens (27.0%) aged 25 to 44, 20,655 citizens (20.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,906 citizens (7.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
64,148 citizens (64.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 34,576 citizens (34.9%) lived in rental housing units.
Census, Rialto had a median homehold income of $49,428, with 19.2% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Rialto's crime rate was slightly above the nationwide average every year from 1999 to 2007.
From 2008 to 2010, the crime rate in Rialto was below the nationwide average. In 2006, Rialto fielded 0.89 police officers per 1,000 residents, less than one-third the nationwide average. The City of Rialto is situated between Interstate 10 and Interstate 210.
According to statistics approximately 55% of the working class in the town/city of Rialto commute more than 10 miles (16 km) to get to work and almost 13% travel to and from Los Angeles and San Bernardino.
Average commute times from Rialto are between 33.6 and 37.6 minutes Rialto is served by the Metrolink county-wide rail service on the Metrolink San Bernardino Line.
The San Bernardino Line takes approximately one hour and twenty minutes to commute each way to Los Angeles and to San Bernardino 10 minutes. The same trip via Interstate 10 or 210 takes between 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on traffic volume and driver speed to Los Angeles and San Bernardino.
Ancient artifacts identified by archaeologists suggest that what is now the town/city of Rialto was settled before to 1500. Such artifacts, now found at the Rialto Historical Society, indicate that the Serrano Indians lived in the Rialto region between 1500 and 1800 AD. There is no indication as to where these Native Americans went or why. An adobe building from the early 19th century which was used for many purposes over the years, is the earliest building still standing in Rialto and stands restored in Bud Bender Park, formerly known as "Lilac Park". The City of Rialto leases the home and a small portion of park territory to the Rialto Historical Society for $1 annually.
In 1842, the Lugo family was granted the Rancho San Bernardino-a holding of 37,700 acres-which encompassed Rialto. In 1851, the Mountain Family purchased part of the Lugo family's Rancho San Bernardino, and claimed a several other portions of the bench which later became known as Rialto.
In 1887 a barns connector line was assembled between San Bernardino and Pasadena by the Santa Fe Railroad. Along the line, townsites were positioned every 2,600 yards (2,400 m) [mile and a half] and by the fall of that year over 25 new suburbs were being built.
In the fall of 1888, the first school was assembled and Brooke School District was formed. Records show that up until 1920, the Brooke School District was in continuous operation, except for a very short time in 1888.
The prominent Rialto Trapp family bought the first school home in 1921, remodeled the building, and members of the family resided in it until it was finished by fire.
The Rialto School District (today Rialto Unified School District), was formed in 1891.
Highway system. In 1914 Los Angeles' Pacific Electric Railway instead of its San Bernardino Line through the City of Rialto, with a junction at Riverside Avenue for the Riverside Line.
Boxcars, Rialto, California Rialto's populace growth had increased to 3,156 by 1950.
Rialto is 4 miles (6.4 km) wide and 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long.
Rialto's populace interval from 80,000 in 1994 to over 91,873 in 2000.
In the California State Legislature, Rialto 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, Rialto is split between California's 31st congressional district, represented by Democrat Pete Aguilar, and California's 35th congressional district, represented by Democrat Norma Torres. Rialto is served by the Rialto Unified School District.
Rialto is also home to a private Catholic school (preschool thru 8th grade).
The portion of Rialto is served by Fontana Unified School District while the southern portion of Rialto is served by Colton Joint Unified School District.
In 1994, the Rialto Western Little League hosted the Southern California Championship for the Major Division, in which the winner went on to participate in the Regional Tournament.
Rialto Network is a public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv station based in Rialto, California.
Rialto Network is positioned in the Civic Center and the station is cablecast daily on Time Warner Cable cable fitness on Channels 3 and 98.214, and on AT&T U-verse PEG cable TV channel 99.
In April 2014, the Rialto school precinct came under fire for homework assigned to about 2,000 8th graders a "critical thinking" writing assignment which asked them to take a position whether the Holocaust occurred, and to defend that position citing presented arguments, including rebuttals to the chose arguments. Although the school fitness initially defended the December 2013 assignment, which had already been instead of and graded by the time the media presented the story, the board of the school precinct formally apologized for what its chairman called the "horribly inappropriate assignment". The contaminant, which has seeped into a several of the town's drinking water wells, is the subject of lawsuits by the town/city of Rialto against 42 parties, including Goodrich Corporation and Black & Decker, the US Department of Defense, and the San Bernardino County. Both companies, most likely under contract with the Department of Defense, directed weapons manufacturing facilities which used massive quantities of rocket fuel.
After many years of negotiations, Goodrich Corporation and Black & Decker still have not agreed to clean toxic waste from the surrounding in northern Rialto.
On September 13, 2005, the Rialto town/city council voted to dissolve the Rialto Police Department and replace it with a contract with the San Bernardino County sheriff's department.
Soon after the vote, a San Bernardino County court issued an injunction on the change because the vote was done in secret. As a result, two town/city council members, Ed Scott and Winfred Lee Hansen, were up for recall. In March 2006, town/city leaders decided to keep the Police Department. City of Rialto's Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony took place on November 17, 2007.
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