Alhambra
Alhambra is a city of charming, well-manicured residential neighborhoods and growing number of businesses. It is situated within a "Sixty Mile Circle" centered on Los Angeles-- a dynamic concentration of population, employment, business, industry and finance with two- thirds of the State's 100 largest corporations headquartered within this circle. (read more)

Altadena Information & Links   Altadena Charts & Graphs
With the abruptly rising San Gabriel Mountains as backdrop, Altadena’s tree-lined neighborhoods and commercial zones comprise one of oldest and most beautiful communities in the San Gabriel Valley. (read more)

Arcadia
Arcadia was incorporated in 1903 and became a Charter City in 1951. It is an upper-middle class community of approximately 54,000 people in an 11.2 square mile area located 20 miles east of Los Angeles. The City government is "full-service" with its own Police Department, Fire Department and Library, and a City Council-City Manager form of government. (read more)

Burbank
The real history of the city, though, began when a New Hampshire dentist headed west with the thousands of Americans seeking new opportunities. This was at a time when men like Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys were changing the face of the San Fernando Valley. (read more)

Duarte
The City of Duarte is a small progressive community located at the base of the picturesque San Gabriel Mountains, approximately 21 miles northeast of Los Angeles. At 6.8 square miles and a population of 21,486, Duarte isn’t the biggest city in the valley. But it just may be the best. (read more)

Glendale   Glendale Charts & Graphs
In 1906 the City was incorporated. It consisted of 1,486 acres. By 1920, the City had grown through nine annexations to over 7,000 acres. From 1920 to 1930, ten annexations brought the total area to 12,294 acres. (read more)

La Cañada Flintridge   La Cañada Flintridge Charts & Graphs
With the San Gabriel Mountains providing a dramatic backdrop, La Cañada Flintridge represents the very best of California living. Although our city is only twenty minutes from downtown Los Angeles, LCF maintains a small-town atmosphere with a sense of shared family values that touches every resident. Tree-lined streets and the rolling lawns of spacious estates and colorful flowers surrounding beautiful homes set a standard of gracious living in this "glen between the hills." (read more)

La Crescenta   La Crescenta Charts & Graphs
Set high in the foothills and separated from Los Angeles by the Verdugo Mountains. La Crescenta has 18,532 inhabitants (year 2000) and proudly calls itself "The Balcony of Southern California". (read more)

Los Angeles
In 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered the "Bay of Smokes." Little did he know that the desolate tidal flats would be transformed into one of the largest, busiest and most successful manmade harbors in the world... (read more)

Monrovia
William N. Monroe first brought his family to California in 1875, after a successful ten year period of building railroads in the Midwest. Monroe, a former school teacher and army officer during the Civil War, had met Charles Crocker of "Big Four" fame, and Crocker had persuaded Monroe to relocate. The family set up headquarters in Los Angeles while Monroe was building railroads throughout the state for the Southern Pacific Railroad. (read more)

Pasadena   Pasadena Charts & Graphs
The San Gabriel Mission, the fourth in California, grew to be prosperous, with abundant orchards, vineyards and herds. The vast lands which it administered for the Spanish Crown were divided into ranchos. After the rule of California passed from Spain to Mexico, the Mexican government in 1833 secularized the mission lands and awarded them to individuals. The northeast corner of San Gabriel Mission, consisting of the 14,000 acres known as Rancho el Rincon de San Pascual, had previously been gifted in 1826 by the padres to Doña Eulalia Pérez de Guillen, noted for her advanced age as well as her devoted service to the mission. On February 18, 1835, it was formally granted by the Mexican government to her husband, Don Juan Mariné. (read more)

San Gabriel
The rich history of the City of San Gabriel dates back to 1771 with the founding of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, a California State historical landmark, and establishes San Gabriel as the birthplace of the Los Angeles region. (read more)

San Marino   San Marino Charts & Graphs
Incorporated in 1913, the City founders designed our community to be uniquely residential, with expansive properties, surrounded by beautiful gardens with wide streets, and well maintained parkways. This forethought best exemplifies the charm and character that make San Marino an enjoyable place to live... (read more)

Sierra Madre   Sierra MadreCharts & Graphs
Sierra Madre is a small city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 10,578 at the 2000 census. It is in the Foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains below the Angeles National Forest with the city of Pasadena to the west, and Arcadia to the south and east.

South Pasadena   South Pasadena Charts & Graphs
Established in 1835, Rancho San Pasqual enveloped most of Altadena, Pasadena, some of South Pasadena and San Marino. When Jose Perez and Enrique Sepulveda took over the mission in 1930, they built the first adobe houses in South Pasadena since the Gabrielinos. (read more)