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Chino Hills Park's 14,102 acres (57.07 km 2; 22.03 sq mi) encompass stands of oaks, sycamores and rolling, grassy hills that stretch nearly 31 miles (50 km), from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Whittier Hills encompassing the Puente Hills. Chino Hills is vitally important as a refuge to many species of California native plants, and as a link ...
Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce 34°45′35″N 112°25′02″W / 34.7597°N 112.4172°W / 34.7597; -112 This San Bernardino County, California –related article is a stub .
Chino Hills – chino (Spanish for 'curly') [5] – is a city located in the southwestern corner of San Bernardino County, California, United States. The city borders Los Angeles County on its northwest side, Orange County to its south and southwest, and Riverside County to its southeast.
On July 29, 2008, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake was located 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Chino Hills that was felt throughout Southern California and felt as far east as the Las Vegas Valley and as far south as San Diego.
The Williams claim to the Chino Rancho was patented in 1869. Beet sugar factory in the Chino Valley, with Mount San Antonio visible to the left, c. 1906. Richard Gird was the next owner of the Rancho. Beginning in 1887, his land was subdivided and laid out. It became the "Town of Chino", and incorporated into a city in 1910. [12]
It is named after the Los Serranos Golf Course within the east-central portion of the Chino Hills city limits, near the Chino Valley Freeway (SR 71). The U.S. Census reported Los Serranos as a separate place in the 1990 Census until the low income region was incorporated by the city of Chino Hills on December 1, 1991. Los Serranos Golf Course ...
Rancho Santa Ana del Chino was a 22,193-acre (89.81 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Chino Hills and southwestern Pomona Valley, in present-day San Bernardino County, California. It was granted to Antonio Maria Lugo in 1841 by Mexican Alta California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado . [ 1 ]
Chino Creek rises from underground in a storm water channel flowing southwards from a subdivision in southern Pomona, eastern Los Angeles County.. The concrete channelized stream soon enters southwestern San Bernardino County and runs generally southeast across the Chino Valley between the Chino Hills to the south, and the city of Chino to the northeast.