![]() ![]() Colonial period ĭon Antonio María Lugo was granted the right to settle the San Bernardino Valley in 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado. By the late 1700s, villages in the area were being increasingly encroached upon by Spanish soldiers and missionaries, who were coming into the region from Mission San Gabriel. It was part of a series of villages located along the Mojave River. Wá'peat was a Desert Serrano village located near what is now the city of Hesperia. The village was part of an extensive trade network along the Mohave Trail that connected villages in San Bernardino County from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles Basin. Wa'aachnga was a major Tongva village site, also occupied by the Serrano and Cahuilla, located near what is now the city of San Bernardino. These groups established various villages and settlements throughout the region that were interconnected by a series of extensive trails. The indigenous peoples that resided in what is now San Bernardino County were primarily the Taaqtam (Serrano) and ʔívil̃uqaletem (Cahuilla) peoples who lived in the San Bernardino Valley and the San Bernardino Mountains the Chemehuevi and the Kawaiisu peoples who lived in the Mojave Desert region and the 'Aha Makhav (Mohave) and the Piipaash (Maricopa) peoples who lived along the Colorado River. Captain of the Agua Caliente Band (1900). Many different Indigenous groups, including the Cahuilla, long inhabited what is now San Berardino County. With a population that is 53.7% Hispanic as of 2020, it is California's most populous majority-Hispanic county and the second-largest nationwide. It spans an area from south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorado River. This vast county stretches from where the bulk of the county population resides in three Census County Divisions (Fontana, San Bernardino, and Victorville-Hesperia), counting 1,793,186 people as of the 2010 Census, covering 1,730 square miles (4,480 km 2), across the thinly populated deserts and mountains. The county is close to the size of West Virginia. With an area of 20,105 square miles (52,070 km 2), San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous United States by area, although some of Alaska's boroughs and census areas are larger. While included within the Greater Los Angeles area, San Bernardino County is included in the Riverside– San Bernardino– Ontario metropolitan statistical area, as well as the Los Angeles– Long Beach combined statistical area. Census, the population was 2,181,654, making it the fifth-most populous county in California and the 14th-most populous in the United States. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area. San Bernardino County ( / s æ n ˌ b ɜːr n ə ˈ d iː n oʊ/ ( listen)), officially the County of San Bernardino, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. ![]()
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