San Gabriel, California City of San Gabriel Flag of San Gabriel, California Flag Official seal of San Gabriel, California Official logo of San Gabriel, California Location of San Gabriel in Los Angeles County, California Location of San Gabriel in Los Angeles County, California San Gabriel, California is positioned in the US San Gabriel, California - San Gabriel, California San Gabriel, California San Gabriel is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California.
It is titled after the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, established by Junipero Serra.
San Gabriel was incorporated in 1913.
The city's motto is "A town/city with a Mission" and it is often called the "Birthplace" of the Los Angeles urbane area.
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish to Alta California, the region that is now San Gabriel was inhabited by the Tongva Native Americans, whom the Spanish called the Gabrieleno.
The Tongva name for the San Gabriel region has been reconstructed as Shevaa. Today a center for culture and art, the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, established by Father Junipero Serra, is the fourth of twenty-one California Missions, and is known as the "Pride of the California Missions." The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel served a pivotal part in the colonial Spanish society, with many of the area's first Mexican pioneer being baptized at the mission, including future governor Pio Pico, who was born in 1801 at the mission and baptized there the same year.
Later in life, he was propel as a Los Angeles City councilman. The town/city of Pico Rivera was titled to honor him as the last governor of California to be born in Mexico. In the first United States census made in California in 1860, 586 citizens lived in San Gabriel.
San Gabriel is positioned at 34 5 39 N 118 5 54 W (34.094176, -118.098449). The town/city is bordered on the north by San Marino, on the east by Temple City and Rosemead, to the south by Rosemead and to the west by Alhambra.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, San Gabriel has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Gabriel had a populace of 39,718.
The ethnic makeup of San Gabriel was 24,091 (60.7%) Asian, 10,076 (25.4%) White (11.4% Non-Hispanic White), 388 (1.0%) African American, 220 (0.6%) Native American, 43 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 3,762 (9.5%) from other competitions, and 1,138 (2.9%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 7,866 citizens (19.8%) under the age of 18, 3,555 citizens (9.0%) aged 18 to 24, 11,335 citizens (28.5%) aged 25 to 44, 11,388 citizens (28.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,574 citizens (14.0%) who were 65 years of age or older.
According to the 2010 United States Census, San Gabriel had a median homehold income of $56,388, with 13.3% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. San Gabriel Square The town/city boasts a mixture of Asian, European, and North American cultures. Second- and third-generation Chinese Americans patronize its diverse array of stores and eateries. There is the 12-acre "San Gabriel Square" mall, sometimes referred to as the "Chinese Disneyland". It was also nicknamed by the Los Angeles Times as "the great mall of China." This stretch of exotic Chinese shops and bold architecture, with roofs of Spanish-style tile, is the model for the new ethnoburbs recently recognized in places like Las Vegas and Houston. The conglomeration of restaurants and cafes, shops, markets, hair and nail salons, Asian video stores, community services, department stores, plus an extensive jewelry mart, provides 'something for everyone', from purchasing an expensive diamond and shopping for designer suits, to buying soy milk or a travel package to Las Vegas or China. San Gabriel, 48.9% In the state council San Gabriel is positioned in the 21st Senate District, represented by Democrat Carol Liu, and in the 49th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mike Eng.
In the United States House of Representatives, San Gabriel is in California's 27th congressional district, represented by Democrat Judy Chu. He symbolized San Gabriel's rise as the new center of the region's Chinese community.
Artist Rexford Newcomb's rendition of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel's initial campanile, or "bell tower." San Gabriel won a record $4.6 million park grant that will fund San Gabriel's first new park in this century, for the proposed Marshall Community Park project.
Parks Office, The Parks and Recreation Department offers an after school sports program and a summer playground program for San Gabriel youth.
San Gabriel Historical Association San Gabriel Mission Playhouse In 2013, Council member-elect Chin Ho Liao threatened to file a lawsuit with the City Council alleging that Liao was not a residing citizen of San Gabriel, thus being ineligible to serve on the council.
Paine alleged that Liao's tax returns, community records and other paperwork did not show that Liao had lived inside San Gabriel's town/city limits before to the election.
Liao in response provided evidence that he was living in an apartment inside town/city limits since November 2012 and was then searching for a permanent home in San Gabriel at the time of his campaign.
San Gabriel improve news are veiled by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune a paid daily newspaper, as well as by Mid-Valley News and San Gabriel Sun, which are improve weeklies.
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In 2008, voters allowed the measure, proposition 1 - A for the California High Speed Rail Project from San Diego to San Francisco. The universal will be constructed in two segments.
The San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaheim universal is scheduled to be assembled first, at a cost of $43 billion, with a culmination date in 2029. The second phase of the proposed stockyards , from Los Angeles to stations in San Diego will not begin assembly until after phase one is completed.
When the California High-Speed Rail Authority recently met with the town/city councils and inhabitants of San Gabriel, El Monte, Rosemead and Alhambra, to discuss the four proposed routes for phase two, the members of the three town/city councils expressed that inhabitants were very concerned that the stockyards could possibly end up in their backyards. Mayor David Gutierrez said "We made a promise to the improve that the town/city of San Gabriel will never allow anything like this to happen if there is any consideration that citizens might lose their home." No decisions will be made until surroundingal impact and evaluation of the various proposed routes are instead of in 2014. Alhambra town/city councilwoman, Jessica Keating, maintained that town/city representatives, who had initially appeared to agree with the proposal, admitted they were "caught asleep at the wheel." The town/city of San Gabriel is served by the San Gabriel Unified School District.
They state: "It is the mission of the San Gabriel School District, in partnership with the Community, to prepare its students for their future as productive people and lifelong learners..." The 2009 API school reports has recognized the San Gabriel Unified school precinct as one of the top school districts in California.
Gabrielino High School persistently rates as one of the highest achieving schools, as it rates with some of the highest scores possible among enhance high schools in California. There are five enhance elementary schools in San Gabriel, all of which are titled after former Presidents: Each of its enhance schools have been honoured as a California Distinguished School. Two other elementary schools exist inside the town/city limits, Dewey Elementary, and Marshall Elementary, are directed by the Garvey School District, in the southern portion of San Gabriel.
Jefferson Middle School is positioned in the San Gabriel Unified School District.
In 1968 the school was converted to the only intermediate school in the elementary school precinct with sixth, seventh and eighth undertaking students.
Jefferson became part of the San Gabriel Unified School District in 1993-94.
San Gabriel High School is positioned in the Alhambra Unified School District, which serves inhabitants from easterly Alhambra, southern Rosemead, and a portion of San Gabriel.
San Gabriel Mission High School, a Catholic, private, all girls high school, grades 9-12.
It was titled after and is positioned in the same block as the historical Mission San Gabriel Arcangel.
There are [Claiborne]several private schools in the City of San Gabriel including: San Gabriel Mission Elementary School San Gabriel Academy is a coeducational Seventh-day Adventist college preliminary school, grades K-12. San Gabriel Christian School-- Is an accredited member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
Rick Aguilera, Major League Baseball pitcher, was born in San Gabriel San Gabriel, CA.
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