postgres El Monte is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was incorporated in 1912 and had a population of 109,450 at the 2020 census. /en/places/ca-el-monte/versions.html place_us_ca_el_monte place ca-el-monte

El Monte is a city in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was incorporated in 1912 and had a population of 109,450 at the 2020 census.

published category-geography tag-admin-division geonames https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/US.zip s1 Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Monte,_California accessed 2026-11-01 s2 United States Census Bureau https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/elmontecitycalifornia/PST045224 Population estimates V2025; 2020 Census; accessed 2026-11-01 s3 City of El Monte https://www.elmonteca.gov/335/Sharing-the-Heritage-PDF accessed 2026-11-01 s4 维基百科 https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/艾尔蒙地_(加利福尼亚州) accessed 2026-11-01 2026-10-29T12:32:29+08:00 2026-11-01T09:10:16+08:00 user:admin 6 **El Monte** is a city in [[place_us_ca_los_angeles_county|Los Angeles County]], [[place_us_ca|California]], United States[^geonames]. It lies in the San Gabriel Valley, east of the city of [[place_us_ca_los_angeles|Los Angeles]][^s1]. ## Geography El Monte lies between the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers on a low-lying tract about 4 miles wide and 7 miles long, with deep, rich alluvial soil[^s3]. The city has a total area of 9.65 square miles (24.99 km²), of which 9.56 square miles (24.77 km²) is land and 0.89% is water; its elevation is 299 feet (91 m)[^s1]. It has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa)[^s1]. ## History The area is part of the homeland of the Tongva people[^s1]. Between the 1770s and 1830s, Spanish missionaries and soldiers often stopped here and named the area "El Monte", which in the usage of that era meant "meadow or marsh" or "the wooded place" rather than "mountain"[^s3]. The Old Spanish Trail, established in 1829, passed through the area to Mission San Gabriel[^s1]. The first permanent residents arrived in 1849–1850, during the California Gold Rush[^s3]. In the 1850s Captain Johnson, from Lexington, Kentucky, proposed naming the village "Lexington"; when the State Legislature organised townships, it named the area El Monte Township, with the Village of Lexington as its seat, and two years later the town's name reverted to El Monte[^s3]. During the American Civil War, the community had Confederate sympathies[^s3]. In 1873 the Southern Pacific built a railroad through the town, and in 1907 Pacific Electric intercity railway service was extended to El Monte[^s3]. El Monte was incorporated as a city on 18 November 1912[^s1]. From 1925 to 1942, Gay's Lion Farm was a well-known local attraction that raised more than 200 African lions for the film industry[^s1]. During the Depression of the 1930s, some orchards and groves were subdivided into homesites[^s3], and the federal Subsistence Homestead project was carried out here[^s1]; the El Monte berry strike took place in 1933[^s3]. The population boomed in the 1940s and early 1950s[^s3]. The Asian population grew significantly between 1980 and 2008[^s1]. ## Population El Monte had a population of 109,450 at the 2020 census and 113,475 at the 2010 census; the Census Bureau estimated its population at 105,075 on 1 July 2025[^s2]. The population density in 2020 was 11,452.3 people per square mile[^s2]. In 2020, Hispanic or Latino residents made up 64.7% of the population and non-Hispanic Asian residents 30.1%[^s1]. ## Municipal government El Monte has a council–manager government; the city council consists of an elected mayor and six council members elected by district[^s1]. The city has its own police department, while fire and emergency medical services are provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department[^s1]. ## Economy and transport The early economy was agricultural, producing wool, honey, grain, fruit, castor oil, hops and cotton, among other goods; in the early 20th century, fruit orchards, walnut groves, truck farms and dairies replaced most of the earlier field crops[^s3]. According to the city's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the three largest employers were school districts, followed by the car dealership Longo Toyota-Lexus[^s1]. Cathay Bank has a corporate center in the city[^s1]. Interstate 10 and Interstate 605 intersect in El Monte[^s3]. The J Line of the [[organization_la_metro|Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] terminates at El Monte station, Foothill Transit's Silver Streak bus rapid transit passes through via the El Monte Busway, and Metrolink's San Bernardino Line stops at El Monte station; the city also operates El Monte Transit[^s1]. The general aviation airport [[place_san_gabriel_valley_airport|San Gabriel Valley Airport]] is located in the city[^s1]. /places/ca-el-monte.html en zh en city 34.06862 -118.02757 The coordinates mark a representative point in the city, not the centre of its boundary; the city lies in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, between the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers. United States · California · El Monte 1912 11 18 day 18 November 1912 (incorporated) 6 2026-11-01T09:10:16+08:00 当前版本 true /en/places/ca-el-monte/at/6.html en zh en place_kind Place kind City admin_area Admin area United States · California · El Monte coordinates Coordinates 34.06862, -118.02757 established Established 18 November 1912 (incorporated) location_note Location note The coordinates mark a representative point in the city, not the centre of its boundary; the city lies in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, between the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers. 1 50 1 1