Eastvale

Eastvale is a city located in northwestern Riverside County, California, the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Its boundaries extend from Hellman Avenue to the west (the San Bernardino County line), Bellegrave Avenue to the north (also the San Bernardino County line), the Santa Ana River and Norco to the south, and Interstate 15 to the east. The population was 53,668 at the 2010 census.HistoryBefore 1954The Eastvale region was part of the homeland of the indigenous Tongva people for ~8,000 yearsRecorded history of land in the far western side of present-day Riverside County and north of the Santa Ana River begins in 1838, when Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado, of the Alta California territory, granted Rancho Jurupa (some 48 square miles) to Juan Bandini. The city of Eastvale now occupies approximately the westernmost one-quarter of former Rancho Jurupa land grant. The Mexican-American War between the United States and Mexico ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which Mexico ceded Alta California and much other Southwestern land to the US. Two years later, on 9 September 1850, California became a U.S. state.