Diamond Bar is one of the cities that is located in the eastern part of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was recorded that the population was near sixty thousand people. The name comes from the branding iron that was registered in 1918 by Frederick E. Lewis, he was the ranch owner. The branding says the diamond over a bar. Majority of the Diamond Bar, is where the residents live and it also has some shopping malls throughout the city. Another cool thing about Diamond Bar is that it has the first hydrogen fueling station that is scheduled to be built in the Southern Part of California.
Some of the history behind this city is as follows. Jose de la Luz Linares was granted some land by the Mexican Land Grant RanchoLos Nogales. It was given to him by the governor, who was Juan Alvarado. Seven years after he had received the land, Linares died. His wife decided that she was going to sell parts of the ranch. The land grant that he received included Walnut Valley as well as Brea Canyon. The man that brought the land from Linares' widow, was named Ricardo Vejar. In return, he cleared all of her husband's debts.The main road in the city is called the Diamond Bar Boulevard. It runs on the bottom of Brea Valley. There are some housing developments that run along the top side of the boulevard. Diamond Bar is in the southeastern corner of the San Gabriel Valley. It is not that far from downtown Los Angeles. It is around twenty seven miles east of it. Diamond Bar runs along side the Inland Empire, and has the Chino Hills right to the east. Some of the cities that line the south of Diamond Bare are the cities of Brea and La Habra. Both of these cities are located in Orange County.
There are a lot of Asians that live in the Diamond Bar areas. It has continuously risen since the1980s. There are about sixty thousand people living in the Diamond Bar area. The majority of the population is made up of Asians. They account for around fifty one percent of the population. The whites make up nearly thirty three percent of the population, while African Americans make up a total of four percent of the population. Other races that are not so prominent in this area are; Native American- they make up .33 percent, and the Pacific Islanders- who make up .12 percent of the population. Mexicans are prominent to this are as well, they make up about twenty percent of the population.
Written by Lyndsey Morgan
