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San Dimas, a city of about 35,000 people, is located approximately thirty miles east of downtown Los Angeles, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and straddling the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. The community started out in the early 1800s being called Mud Springs, named for the adjacent Mud Springs marsh whose wet and swampy terrain characterized the region. Though Gabrielino Indians occupied the area as early as 1000 B.C. and other tribes as much as 7,000 years ago, it was not until 1774 that white men first ventured into the region, when Spanish frontier soldier Juan Baptista DeAnza and his partyen route from Mexico to Montereypassed through the area that later became Mud Springs.

Other explorers and early settlers and cattle
ranchers trickled into the region in the century that
followed, but the community was formally put on
the map in 1887, the year the Santa Fe Railroad
was completed and began operating a rail line
through the area. The railroad¹s arrival triggered a
land boom, the newly formed San Jose Ranch
Company laid out streets and lots, land agent E.M.
Marshall opened the first businessa hardware storeat
the corner of Bonita and Depot streets, and the name Mud Springs was changed to San Dimas.

San Dimas evolved into an agricultural community, especially noted for its orange and other citrus crops which were shipped all over the world The citrus nurseries faded and finally disappeared in the mid-1900s with increasing development in San Dimas. After adjacent communities started annexing pieces of San Dimas in the late 1950s, it incorporated as a city in 1960. Today, conscious of its heritage, San Dimas maintains an early western look in its downtown area, complete with wooden sidewalks and old-fashioned western storefront facades.

Utilities

Phone	Verizon 800-483-4000
Electric	Southern California Edison (no branch office) 800-655-4555
Gas	Southern California Gas Company (no branch office) 800-427-2200
Water	Southern California Water 800-999-4033
Trash	Waste Management 909-599-1274

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