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Eastvale name origin

Published on 06/16/10 at 06:32:16 PST by

I have also been asked about the origins of the name “Eastvale,” and someone pointed out that Eastvale is at the extreme west end of Riverside County, so “east” seems inappropriate as part of the name.
First of all, till quite recently the name Eastvale was rarely used for the community, much more commonly to designate the school district whose demography had two parts, divided more or less by the present I-15: sparsely populated farms to the west, and the newer but denser “Riverdale Acres” to the east. My parents moved to Riverdale Acres in 1928 just before I was born, and I attended the “original” Eastvale School (grades 1 to 8 in two classrooms, located on Sumner Ave, on the northwest corner of the present intersection with Schleisman) from 1934 till 1941. I vaguely remember seeing some essays by older Eastvale students, to which I can add a lot of my own speculation, about how Eastvale was named.
In earlier days, the most common perspective would have been eastward from Los Angeles, not westward from Riverside. From that point of view, the main “valley” lies between the San Gabriel mountains north of Ontario and the Santa Ana mountains south of Corona. The lower Chino hills subdivide this valley and from what I heard long ago, the Eastvale name indicates “the valley east of the Chino hills.”

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