A city of southern California in the San Bernardino Valley. It is primarily residential with varied light industries. Population: 70,400.
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| City of Redlands | |
|---|---|
| — City — | |
| Nickname(s): Jewel of the Inland Empire | |
| Location of Redlands in California | |
| Coordinates: 34°3′17″N 117°10′57″W / 34.05472°N 117.1825°WCoordinates: 34°3′17″N 117°10′57″W / 34.05472°N 117.1825°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Bernardino |
| Incorporated (city) | 1888 |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | Jon Harrison[1] |
| Area | |
| - Total | 37.46 sq mi (97.01 km2) |
| - Land | 37.45 sq mi (96.98 km2) |
| - Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) 0.03% |
| Elevation | 1,358 ft (414 m) |
| Population (2007)[2] | |
| - Total | 69,941 |
| - Density | 1,793.1/sq mi (692.3/km2) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
| - Summer (DST) | PST (UTC-8) |
| ZIP Code | 92373, 92374 [3] |
| Area code(s) | 909 [4] |
| FIPS code | 06-59962 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0252966 |
| Website | http://www.ci.redlands.ca.us/ |
Redlands (pronounced /ˈrɛdlɨndz/) is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 63,591. The city is located 10 miles east of downtown San Bernardino.
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The area now occupied by Redlands was originally part of the territory of the Morongo and Aguas Calientes tribes. After the arrival of Spanish settlers in the 1770s, it became part of the massive Rancho San Bernardino, remaining a dusty patch of grazing land after Mexican independence in 1821. Franciscan friars from San Gabriel came to the San Bernardino valley in 1820, establishing their Asistencia and embarking on the usual program of training the native tribes to raise crops and encouraging permanent settlements. A ditch, known as a zanja, was dug by the natives for the friars from Mill Creek for what is now known as the San Bernardino Asistencia. In 1842, the Lugo family received a grant to a large tract in the area and this became the first fixed civilization. The area northwest of current Redlands, astride the Santa Ana River, would become known as Lugonia. In 1851, the area received its first Anglo inhabitants in the form of several hundred Mormon pioneers, who purchased the entire Rancho San Bernardino, founded nearby San Bernardino, and established a prosperous farming community watered by the many lakes and streams of the San Bernardino Mountains. The Mormon community left wholesale in 1857, recalled to Utah by Brigham Young during the tensions with the federal government that ultimately led to the brief Utah War. Benjamin Barton purchased 1,000 acres (4 km2) from the Latter-day Saints and planted extensive vineyards and built a winery.[5]
"The first settler on the site of the present Redlands is recorded to have erected a hut at the corner of what is now Cajon St. and Cypress Ave.; he was a sheep herder, and the year, 1865," reported Ira L. Swett in "Tractions of the Orange Empire." Lugonia attracted settlers; in 1869, Barry Roberts, followed a year later by the Craw and Glover families. "The first school teacher in Lugonia, George W. Beattie, arrived in 1874—shortly followed by the town's first negro settler, Israel Beal." [6]
In the 1880s, the arrival of the Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads, connecting Southern California to San Francisco and Salt Lake touched off a land boom, with land speculators such as John W. North flooding into the area now known as the Inland Empire. North and others saw the area, with its hot, dry climate and ready access to water supplies, as an ideal center for citrus production. The city of Redlands was soon established by Frank E. Brown, a civil engineer, and E. G. Judson, a New York stock broker, to provide a center (along with North's nearby settlement at Riverside) for the burgeoning citrus industry. They named their city “Redlands” after the color of the adobe soil.[7] So large had the area grown by 1888 that it was decided to incorporate. "A red-letter day in the Annals of Redlands," pronounced Scipio Craig, editor of the The Citrograph newspaper, of the November 26 incorporation.[8][9] The original community of Lugonia was absorbed at this time.
The Redlands Street Railway Company was incorporated on March 22, 1888, acquiring on June 5 a franchise from the San Bernardino County Supervisors dating to December 1887, conveying the right to construct, operate and maintain for a term of 50 years a line of street railways in Redlands, Terracina and vicinity. [10] The initial operations began in June 1889 with a single-track line operating two-mule-team cars, the first street railway company of several to provide service to the growing community. Electrification and new rails replaced the mules in 1899. [11] Most Redlands street railways would pass to the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company in a consolidation on June 3, 1903 [12], and thence to the Pacific Electric on February 8, 1911. [13] Collis P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific gained control of the four-mile-long streetcar line of the Redlands Central Railway Company in 1908. [14]
The arrival of the Pacific Electric Railroad interurban railway of Los Angeles, in the early 20th century, provided a convenient, speedy connection to the fast-growing city and its new port at San Pedro, bringing even greater prosperity to the town and a new role as a vacation destination for wealthy Angelenos. Redlands, was, in fact, the eastern-most point of the "Big Red Car" system. At its peak, the PE operated five individual local routes in Redlands, with trolleys running up to Smiley Heights, and on Orange, Olive, and Citrus Avenues. [15] Pacific Electric interurban service to Redlands was finally abandoned on July 20, 1936, although PE, and later Southern Pacific, which absorbed the Big Red Car system, provided freight service as far as the Sunkist packing plant on San Bernardino Avenue[16] into at least the 1970s. The abandoned Pacific Electric La Quinta trestle over the Santa Ana River still stands today, immediately south of San Bernardino International Airport.
At the turn of the 1900s, Redlands was the "Palm Springs" of the next century, with roses being planted along many city thoroughfares. Some of these plantings would survive as wild thickets into the 1970s, especially adjacent to orange groves where property management was lax. Washingtonian palms were planted along many main avenues. In fact, Redlands was the first city to have center medians with trees or gardens in between roads. So beautifully kept was the area, with the dramatic mountain backdrops, that for several years the Santa Fe Railroad operated excursion trains along the loop that passed through the orange groves of Redlands and Mentone, across the Santa Ana River, and back into San Bernardino via East Highlands, Highlands and Patton, and advertised as the "Kite Route" due to its multi-sided alignment. The trestle over "the Wash" north of Mentone was carried away during a flood in 1938 and never replaced, the line being truncated there. The Southern Pacific branch line from the San Timoteo Canyon to Crafton was abandoned after the packing house business died. A thru-truss bridge over the Zanja (locally pronounced "Zank-ee") exists today, abandoned in place. Burlington Northern Santa Fe, result of the AT&SF-Burlington Northern merger, applied to abandon its San Bernardino-connected branch line east of downtown Redlands in 2007. A move was made by transit activists to have this branch revitalized as part of the Southern California transit districts, but it came to nothing.
The city has been visited by three Presidents, President McKinley was the first in 1901, followed by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1903 and President William H. Taft. Local landmarks include the A.K. Smiley Public Library, a Moorish-style library built in 1898, and the Redlands Bowl, built in 1930 and home of the oldest continuously free outdoor concert series in the United States. Located behind the Smiley Library is the Lincoln Shrine, the only memorial honoring the "Great Emancipator", the sixteenth president, west of the Mississippi River. Other famous homes include “America’s Favorite Victorian,” the Morey Mansion,[17] on Terracina Boulevard, and the Kimberly Crest House and Gardens, a home museum featured on the PBS series “America’s Castles.” Named after the family that purchased the house, the owners of Kimberly-Clark (makers of paper goods and Kleenex), it is a beautiful mansion set high on a hill overlooking the whole valley. Redlands is still regarded as the "Jewel of the Inland Empire."[18]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 92.5 km² (35.7 mi²). 91.9 km² (35.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it (0.76%) is water.
As of the census[19] of 2000, there were 63,591 people, 23,593 households, and 16,019 families residing in the city. The population density was 692.2/km² (1,793.1/mi²). There were 24,790 housing units at an average density of 269.8/km² (699.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 73.69% White, 4.31% African American, 0.94% Native American, 5.12% Asian, 0.23% Pacific Islander, 11.33% from other races, and 4.39% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 24.1% of the population. The approximate population is 72,008 (as of March 2008).
There were 23,593 households out of which 33.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.6% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.1% were non-families. 26.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.18.
In the city the population was spread out with 26.2% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $58,155, and the median income for a family was $76,254. Males had a median income of $64,408 versus $52,122 for females. The per capita income for the city was $24,237. About 2.7% of families and 1.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over.
The 2008 population estimated by the California Department of Finance was 71,807.[20]
Redlands is located in California's 41st congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R +9[21] and is represented by Republican Jerry Lewis.
In the state legislature Redlands is located in the 31st Senate District, represented by Republican Robert Dutton, and in the 59th, 63rd and 65th Assembly Districts, represented by Republicans Anthony Adams, Bill Emmerson, and Paul Cook respectively.
The city uses a Mayor and City-Council system, each serving a four year term.
Redlands Unified School District
Coming west from Los Angeles and heading east toward Palm Springs, Interstate 10 bisects Redlands in two, right through the middle. A tempestuous political battle occurred in the 1950s when three routes for the new freeway were considered, one north of town through the Lugonia district, the center route through the city, and a southern alignment through San Timoteo Canyon, parallelling the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. The central route was finalized in 1957 and Redlands Mayor Charles Parker cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the new interstate on August 28, 1962. [23] The new State Route 210 or Foothill Freeway ends at Interstate 10 in Redlands, then heads west toward Pasadena and Los Angeles. The San Bernardino line of the Greater Los Angeles regional transportation system called Metrolink has a stop in nearby San Bernardino. The San Bernardino based Omnitrans bus system which handles the bus service for the area serves Redlands.[24]
The city of Redlands owns and operates 14 public parks totaling more than 143 acres (0.58 km2):
A variety of religions have a presence in Redlands, including a number of Christian faiths, Judaism, and the Bahá'í Faith, and there is a Redlands Area Interfaith Council.[34]
The Redlands California Temple is the 116th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and one of four LDS temples in Southern California. It was dedicated on September 14, 2003.
Redlands has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
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