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Eastvale in US Census 1900 to 1930

Published on 06/16/10 at 06:30:38 PST by

I posted a condensed (but still pretty long) version of some of my earlier writings, as an on-line comment to John Hunneman’s column in North County Times 9 Jun 2010.
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I saw your note on Eastvale election results Jun 8:
“The 13.1-square-mile community was made up mostly of dairy farms until the early 1990s, when developers started buying up land and building homes and shopping centers.”
This is of course true as stated, but only for a historical horizon that doesn’t extend back beyond about 1960. Before that time there were indeed a few dairies, but the main emphasis was on diversified farming.
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I have recently been studying census records for Temescal Township from 1900 to 1930, in connection with a proposed history project. I note that an early population explosion occurred north of the Santa Ana River, between 1920 and 1930. In 1900 the entire Township excluding the City of Corona consisted of 55 households, spread thinly along two routes, one from Corona to San Diego and the other toward Chino and Pomona. The only major establishment north of the river was Fuller Ranch. In 1910 there were 68 households in “Rincon Precinct,” which I think lay along the Pomona road, and includes a much larger area than Eastvale. The 1920 census for the Eastvale area lists 21 households. Roads such as Archibald, Harrison, Sumner, Cleveland, and Adams (now Hamner) are now shown, and I think the “original” Eastvale schoolhouse has recently been built. The 1930 census shows 50 or 60 households in the area now to be incorporated as the city of Eastvale, including the family that now owns Galleano Winery (outside the future city limits, on Wineville Ave).
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Dairies were not a major industry in the Eastvale area till about 1960 I think, and in this immediate area it didn’t last long. The “small” Eastvale ranches of the 1920 – 1960 era all had some milk cows, but that wasn’t their main emphasis – they also had fruit (peach and apricot) and walnut trees and other cash crops; by 1940 the Fuller Ranch had become a poultry farm. (Eastvale winters are a few degrees too cold to really support citrus.) Before WW2 the Los Angeles area milk producing region was mainly around Artesia, south of Whittier and Fullerton. Later the dairies moved east, but not as far as Eastvale till after 1960. Then a few years ago most all farming (including citrus south of Corona) moved entirely out of the “inland empire.”

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