Chino

History

The Tongva had a settlement called Wapijangna in the Santa Ana River watershed. Some residents of Wapijanga were baptized at Mission San Gabriel, which was established in 1771. The Spanish crown claimed the land until Mexican independence was finalized and possession fell to the Mexican government. Some twenty years later, Mexican governor of Alta California Juan Bautista Alvarado granted Rancho Santa Ana del Chino to Antonio Maria Lugo of the Lugo family. Two years later, his successor, Governor Micheltorena, granted an additional three leagues to Lugo's son-in-law Isaac Williams, who took charge of the rancho. Williams kept large quantities of horses and cattle, which attracted the envy of raiding Native Americans as well as unscrupulous whites. One of the latter was James Beckwourth, who, in 1840, posed as an otter hunter and stayed at Rancho Chino to determine the location of the area's animals, which he then reported to Walkara, the Ute mastermind of the raids. Early in the Mexican–American War, the Battle of Chino took place at Williams' rancho. The battle ended prior to the arrival of the Mormon Battalion, dispatched on behalf of the United States, who instead labored in the rancho's agricultural harvest and constructed a grist mill. During the California Gold Rush, the rancho was a popular stopover for travelers, and in the mining fury, coal was discovered there. In 1850, California was admitted to the union, and the process of separating privately held lands from the public domain began. The Williams claim to the Chino Rancho was patented in 1869. 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. Sugar beets, corn, and alfalfa were…

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of . of it is land and 0.04% is water. * Chino is a suburb in San Bernardino County, located from the county seat, San Bernardino. * Los Angeles, * Riverside, * Santa Ana, * Anaheim, According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chino has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps. Chino has long, hot summers with cool to mild mornings and short, mild, and wet winters with chilly mornings usually in the 40s. Precipitation peaks during the month of February.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  25,367
• Black Phoebe

  Sayornis nigricans (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  21,256
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  19,763
• Lesser Goldfinch

  Spinus psaltria (Say, 1822) · Aves
  19,113
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  18,130
• Anna's Hummingbird

  Calypte anna (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  18,080
• California Towhee

  Melozone crissalis (Vigors, 1839) · Aves
  17,188
• Northern Mockingbird

  Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  15,783

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