"San Bernardino" and "City of San Bernardino"
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San Bernardino, California Downtown San Bernardino Downtown San Bernardino Flag of San Bernardino, California Flag Official seal of San Bernardino, California Official logo of San Bernardino, California Nickname(s): SB; San Berdoo; Berdoo; Gate City; City on the Move; The Friendly City; The Heart of Southern California Location in San Bernardino County and California Location in San Bernardino County and California San Bernardino is positioned in the US San Bernardino - San Bernardino County San Bernardino Rank 1st in San Bernardino County San Bernardino / s n b rn r di no / is a town/city located in the Riverside-San Bernardino urbane region (sometimes called the "Inland Empire").
It serves as the governmental center of county of San Bernardino County, California, United States.
As one of the Inland Empire's anchor cities, San Bernardino spans 81 square miles (210 km2) on the floor of the San Bernardino Valley and has a populace of 209,924 as of the 2010 census. San Bernardino is the 17th-largest town/city in California and the 100th-largest town/city in the United States.
San Bernardino is home to various diplomatic missions for the Inland Empire, being one of four metros/cities in California with various consulates (the other three being Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco).
California State University, San Bernardino is positioned in the northwestern part of the city.
Other attractions in San Bernardino include ASU Fox Theatre, the Mc - Donald's Museum, which is positioned on the initial site of the world's first Mc - Donald's, California Theatre, the San Bernardino Mountains, and San Manuel Amphitheater, the biggest outside amphitheater in the United States.
In addition, the town/city is home to the Inland Empire 66ers baseball team; they play their home games at San Manuel Stadium in downtown San Bernardino. In August 2012, San Bernardino became the biggest city to choose to file for protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S.
San Bernardino's case was filed on August 1. On December 2, 2015, a terrorist attack left 14 citizens dead and 22 seriously injured.
8.1.3 City of San Bernardino Economic Development Agency 8.1.4 Downtown San Bernardino revitalization accomplishments Main article: History of San Bernardino, California See also: Timeline of San Bernardino, California history The town/city of San Bernardino, California, is situated in much of the San Bernardino Valley, which indigenous tribespeople originally referred to as "The Valley of the Cupped Hand of God".
The Tongva Indians also called the San Bernardino region Wa'aach in their language. Upon seeing the immense geological arrowhead-shaped modern formation on the side of the San Bernardino Mountains, they found the hot and cold springs to which the "arrowhead" seemed to point.
Politana was the first Spanish settlement in the San Bernardino Valley, titled for Bernardino of Siena.
Serrano and Cahuilla citizens inhabited Politana until long after the 1830s decree of secularization and the 1842 inclusion into the Rancho San Bernardino territory grant of the Jose del Carmen Lugo family.:37 41 The town/city of San Bernardino one of the earliest communities in the state of California, and in its present-day location, was not largely settled until 1851, after California became a state.
Following the Mormon colonists purchase of Rancho San Bernardino, and the establishment of the town of San Bernardino in 1851, San Bernardino County was formed in 1853 from parts of Los Angeles County.
Some Mormons would stay in San Bernardino and some later returned from Utah, but a real estate consortium from El Monte and Los Angeles bought most of the lands of the old rancho and of the departing colonists.
They sold these lands to new pioneer who came to dominate the culture and politics in the county and San Bernardino became a typical American frontier town.
By the 1860s, San Bernardino had also became an meaningful trading core in Southern California.
Near San Bernardino is a naturally formed arrowhead-shaped modern formation on the side of a mountain.
Indigenous citizens of the San Bernardino Valley and Mountains were collectively identified by Spanish explorers in the 19th century as Serrano, a term meaning highlander.
In 1866, to clear the way for pioneer and gold miners, state militia conducted a 32-day campaign slaughtering men, women, and children. Yuhaviatam prestige Santos Manuel guided his citizens from their ancient homeland to a village site in the San Bernardino foothills.
In 1883, California Southern Railroad established a rail link through San Bernardino between Los Angeles and the rest of the country.
San Bernardino, California, town/city and village, 1909.
A view of "E" Street and the Stewart Hotel, San Bernardino, ca.1905 In 1905, the town/city of San Bernardino passed its first charter.
San Bernardino won the All-America City award in the early 1980s, but the town/city later went into general diminish and has only recently begun to recover from the three recessions of the late 20th/early 21st centuries.
See also: 2015 San Bernardino attack and North Park Elementary School shooting See also: Downtown San Bernardino San Bernardino horizon in 2004 with downtown on the right and I-215 on the left.
The town/city lies in the San Bernardino foothills and the easterly portion of the San Bernardino Valley, roughly 60 miles (97 km) east of Los Angeles.
Some primary geographical features of the town/city include the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Bernardino National Forest, in which the city's northernmost neighborhood, Arrowhead Springs, is located; the Cajon Pass adjoining to the northwest border; City Creek, Lytle Creek, San Timoteo Creek, Twin Creek, Warm Creek (as modified through flood control channels) feed the Santa Ana River, which forms part of the city's southern border south of San Bernardino International Airport.
San Bernardino is unique among Southern Californian metros/cities because of its richness of water, which is mostly contained in underground aquifers.
The San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District ("Muni") has plans to build two more large, multi-acre lakes north and south of historic downtown in order to reduce groundwater, mitigate the risks of liquefaction in a future earthquake, and sell the valuable water to neighboring agencies. Freeways act as momentous geographical dividers for the town/city of San Bernardino.
San Bernardino gets an average of 16 inches (406 mm) of rain, hail, or light snow showers each year.
Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino's northernmost neighborhood gets snow, heavily at times, due to its altitude of about 3,000 feet (910 m) above sea level.
The cyclic Santa Ana winds are felt especially firmly in the San Bernardino region as warm and dry air is channeled through close-by Cajon Pass at times amid the autumn months.
Climate data for San Bernardino, California The neighborhoods of San Bernardino are not generally named.
Some portions of Highland are inside the town/city of San Bernardino, generally consistent with the portions of historical "West Highlands" north of Highland Avenue.
North Loma Linda is the region west of Mountain View Acres (the border with Redlands), south of the Santa Ana River, north of the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10), and east of Tippecanoe Avenue.
San Bernardino is divided into a several districts.
In the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains lies the University District, which is a commercial region designed to support the California State University with shopping, dining, and high-density residentiary space.
On the opposite side of the town/city is the San Bernardino International Gateway, which encompasses the San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) and the Alliance California Logistics ground (air cargo hub).
The town/city of San Bernardino is in the process of developing an historic precinct around the 1918 Santa Fe Depot, which recently underwent a $15.6 million restoration. When completed, this region will connect to the downtown precinct with reconstructionstreet lights and street furniture, historic homes and other structures, a new exhibition, coffee bars and, a mercado with an architectural style in keeping with the Mission Revival station.
San Bernardino has communities known for residences of millionaires and increasingly well-to-do sections of town: Del Rosa, University Heights (Kendall Farms) and University Hills, and Verdemont. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Bernardino had a populace of 209,924.
According to the 2010 United States Census, San Bernardino had a median homehold income of $39,097, with 30.6% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Western, central, and parts of easterly San Bernardino are home to mixed-ethnic low-income populations, of which the Latino and black populations dominate in the city.
The heart of the Mexican-American improve is on the West and Southside of San Bernardino, but is slowly expanding throughout the entire city. San Bernardino's only Jewish congregation moved to Redlands in December 2009. Some Asian Americans live in and around the town/city of San Bernardino, as in a late 19th-century-era (gone) Chinatown and formerly Japanese-American region in Seccombe Park on the east end of downtown, and a large East-Asian improve in North Loma Linda.
Government, retail, and service industries dominate the economy of the town/city of San Bernardino.
As of 2007 homeholds inside one mile of the town/city core had a median income of only $20,480, less than half that of the Inland region as a whole. Over 15 percent of San Bernardino inhabitants are unemployed as of 2012, and over 40 percent are on some form of enhance assistance. According to the US Census, 34.6 percent of inhabitants live below the poverty level, making San Bernardino the poorest town/city for its populace in California, and the second poorest in the US next to Detroit. California State University, San Bernardino 2,500+ City of San Bernardino 1,000+ Community Hospital of San Bernardino 1,000+ San Bernardino City Unified School District 1,000+ San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department 1,000+ San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools 1,000+ San Bernardino County Public Works 500 999 San Bernardino Valley College 500 999 San Bernardino hosts a several major annual affairs, including: Route 66 Rendezvous, a four-day celebration of America's "Mother Road" that is held in downtown San Bernardino each September; the Berdoo Bikes & Blues Rendezvous, held in the spring; the National Orange Show Festival, a citrus exposition established in 1911 and also held in the spring; and, the Western Regional Little League Championships held each August, as well as the annual anniversary of the birth of the Mother Charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Berdoo California Chapter.
Fullerton Museum of Art, positioned on the ground of California State University, San Bernardino, contains a compilation of Egyptian antiquities, ancient pottery from present-day Italy, and funerary art from ancient China.
The Heritage House holds the compilation of the San Bernardino Historic and Pioneer Society, while the San Bernardino County Museum of county-wide history in Redlands has exhibits relating to the town/city of San Bernardino as well.
The San Bernardino Railroad and History Museum is positioned inside the historic Santa Fe Depot.
The 1928 California Theatre (San Bernardino), California Theater of the Performing Arts in downtown San Bernardino hosts an array of affairs, including concerts by the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, as well as touring Broadway theater productions presented by Theatrical Arts International, the Inland Empire's biggest theater company. Coussoulis Arena in the University District is the biggest venue of its type in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
The historic 1929 Fox Theater of San Bernardino, positioned downtown and owned by American Sports University, has recently been restored for new use.
San Bernardino is home to the historic Arrowhead Springs Hotel and Spa, positioned in the Arrowhead Springs neighborhood, which encompasses 1,916 acres (7.75 km2) directly beneath the Arrowhead geological monument that presides over the San Bernardino Valley.
The $300 million Casino San Manuel, one of the several in southern California that does not operate as a resort hotel, is positioned approximately one mile from the Arrowhead Springs Hotel and Spa. The town/city is also home to the Arrowhead Country Club and Golf Course.
In downtown, Clarion, adjoining to the San Bernardino Convention Center, is the biggest hotel while the Hilton is the biggest in the Hospitality Lane District.
Of these, San Berdoo, S.B.D., S.B., San B., Dino, San Bernas, and Berdoo are the most common but are sometimes considered derogatory or undignified.
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) Coussoulis Arena.
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) Coyotes compete at the NCAA Division II level in a range of sports.
However, only San Bernardino Valley College plays football at the collegiate level.
San Bernardino has had other experienced and semi-pro squads over the years, including the San Bernardino Jazz experienced women's volleyball team, the San Bernardino Pride Senior Baseball team, and the San Bernardino Spirit California League Single A baseball team.
San Bernardino also hosts the BSR West Super Late Model Series at Orange Show Speedway.
The 66ers play at San Manuel Stadium in downtown San Bernardino. Other notable parks include: the Glen Helen Regional Park, directed by the County of San Bernardino, is positioned in the northernmost part of the city.
San Bernardino City Hall building in downtown, was designed in 1963 by Cesar Pelli The town/city of San Bernardino is a charter city, a form of government under California that allows limited home-rule, in that it can pass its own laws not in conflict with state law, such as when state law is silent, or expressly allows municipal regulations of areas of small-town concern.
San Bernardino became a charter town/city in 1905, the most current charter was passed in 2004.
The town/city of San Bernardino has a full-time, propel mayor, a town/city manager, an propel City Attorney, City Clerk, and City Treasurer, and seven council positions propel in a ward system.
The charter also created the San Bernardino City Unified School District, a legally separate agency, and the Board of Water Commissioners, a semi-autonomous, but legally indistinct commission, and a Board of Library Trustees.
Previously, the San Bernardino Municipal Code recognized a City Administrator.
San Bernardino's legal improve has two centers: downtown and Hospitality Lane.
The government of Mexico has a consulate in downtown San Bernardino on the southeast corner of Third Street and "D" Street.
On July 10, 2012, the City Council of San Bernardino decided to seek protection under Chapter 9, Title 11, United States Code, making it the third California municipality to do so in less than two weeks (after Stockton and the town of Mammoth Lakes), and the second-largest ever.
As a charter city, San Bernardino may make and enforce its own laws as long as they are not in conflict with the laws of the State of California.
Violations of the code, punishable as a misdemeanor or infraction (or both) are prosecuted by the City Attorney's Office in the San Bernardino County Superior Court.
City of San Bernardino Economic Development Agency The Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino, also known as the "Economic Development Agency of the City of San Bernardino," is a separate legal entity, though the City Council of the town/city of San Bernardino sits as the Agency Board, and the mayor is its executive. Downtown San Bernardino revitalization accomplishments In June 2009, the city's Economic Development Agency, presented the San Bernardino City Council with the Downtown Core Vision / Action Plan a guide for revitalizing Downtown San Bernardino for the next 10 years.
San Bernardino shares certain powers with other agencies to form legally separate entities known as joint-power authorities under California law.
These include Omnitrans, which provides transit throughout the east and west valleys of San Bernardino County, SANBAG, which coordinates transit projects throughout the county, and the Inland Valley Development Agency, which is responsible for redevelopment of the areas around the San Bernardino International Airport. San Bernardino County Court House, assembled in 1926.
San Bernardino is the governmental center of county of San Bernardino County, the biggest formal county in the adjoining United States by area, but lesser than the informally organized county equivalent Yukon-Koyukuk Enumeration Area, Alaska and the formal county equivalent North Slope Borough, Alaska, as well as 4 other formal county equivalents and 5 other informally organized county equivalents in Alaska.
Various state courts, (for civil, criminal and juvenile trials) operate under the auspices of the Superior Court, San Bernardino District (formerly Central Division before to the unification of the Superior and Municipal Courts in 1998).
The California Court of Appeal Fourth District, Division Two used to be positioned in San Bernardino, but moved to Riverside in the 1990s.
San Bernardino County Government Center, 385 North Arrowhead Avenue in downtown San Bernardino The 1905 Charter created the San Bernardino Police Department and chief of police; before 1905, there was a position of town/city marshal.
The San Bernardino City Fire Department was established in 1878 and dissolved on July 1, 2016 to be taken over by the San Bernardino County Fire District. Recent police accomplishments include joint patrols with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol.
San Bernardino has long battled high crime rates.
According to statistics presented by Morgan Quitno, San Bernardino was the 16th most dangerous US town/city in 2003, 18th in 2004 and 24th in 2005.
San Bernardino's murder rate was 29 per 100,000 in 2005, the 13th highest murder rate in the nation and the third highest in the state of California after Compton and Richmond. Police accomplishments have decidedly reduced crime in 2008 and a primary drop collectively since 1993 when the city's murder rate placed ninth in the nation. Thirty two killings occurred in 2009, a number identical to 2008 and the lowest murder rate in San Bernardino since 2002, but only a third of cases led to arrests. According to findings by the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau, San Bernardino was among the most poverty-stricken metros/cities in the nation, second nationally behind Detroit. The San Bernardino Police Department has a holding area, but pre-trial arrested suspects are transported to the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
While the Central Detention Center, positioned at 630 East Rialto Avenue in San Bernardino, served as the chief jail from 1971 1992, today it mostly serves federal prisoners under contract.
In the California State Senate, San Bernardino is split between the 20th Senate District, represented by Democrat Connie Leyva, and the 23rd Senate District, represented by Republican Mike Morrell. In the California State Assembly, it is split between the 40th Assembly District, represented by Republican Marc Steinorth, and the 47th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Eloise Reyes. In the United States House of Representatives, San Bernardino is in California's 31st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D+5 and is represented by Democrat Pete Aguilar. Main entrance to CSU San Bernardino along University Parkway.
San Bernardino is primarily served by the San Bernardino City Unified School District, the eighth biggest precinct in the state, although it is also served by Rim of the World (far north, mountain peaks), Redlands (far south east) and Rialto (far west) Unified School Districts.
California State University, San Bernardino San Bernardino Valley College National University, San Bernardino Aquinas High School (San Bernardino, California) San Bernardino High School Pacific High School (San Bernardino) San Bernardino is part of the Los Angeles Nielsen area.
KVCR-DT, a PBS partner directed by the San Bernardino Community College District, is the only small-town San Bernardino tv station.
KPXN, the Los Angeles Ion Television network affiliate, is licensed to San Bernardino, but contains no small-town content.
Most of the northern section of San Bernardino cannot receive over-the-air tv broadcasts from Los Angeles because Mount Baldy, and other San Gabriel Mountain peaks, block transmissions from Mount Wilson.
Since the 1960s, most North San Bernardino inhabitants have required cable tv to obtain television.
Historically, San Bernardino has had a number of newspapers.
Today, the San Bernardino Sun, established in 1894 (but was the continuation of an earlier paper) prints in North San Bernardino, and has a circulation region roughly from Yucaipa to Fontana, including the mountain communities.
Their coverage region extends to the greater region of San Bernardino County.
They presently operate locally and online. The Inland Catholic Byte is the journal of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino.
Therefore, there are a several airways broadcasts that broadcast in San Bernardino or other Inland Empire cities.
Sb - X Civic Centre Station, Downtown San Bernardino.
San Bernardino has a fitness of mostly publicly maintained small-town streets, including primary arterials, some private streets, state highways, and interstate highways.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief, operating between Los Angeles and Chicago, has one daily train in each direction that stops at the San Bernardino station.
Lines include: the Metrolink Inland Empire-Orange County Line and the Metrolink San Bernardino Line.
The town/city of San Bernardino is a member of the joint-powers authority of Omnitrans and MARTA.
A Bus Rapid Transit corridor, called sb - X Green Line, joins the north part of the town/city near California State University, San Bernardino and the Verdemont Hills region with the Jerry L.
San Bernardino International Airport is physically positioned inside the city.
The facility, itself, is inside the jurisdiction of the Inland Valley Development Agency, a joint powers authority, and the San Bernardino Airport Authority.
Main article: List of citizens from San Bernardino, California San Bernardino has eleven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International and the Mayor's office of the City of San Bernardino: San Bernardino, Amtrak station, Santa Fe Depot City of San Bernardino.
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