'''COVINA'''
is a small city in
Los Angeles County,
California about Interwiki: convert » 22|mi|km east of downtown
Los Angeles, in the
San Gabriel Valley region. The population was 47,796 at the 2010 census, up from 46,837 at the 2000 census. The city's slogan, "One Mile Square and All There" was coined when the incorporated area of the city was only (some say slightly less than) one square mile, making it the smallest city in area in the country.
Covina is often confused with
West Covina which is actually larger in both area and population, located to its south and westside.
Irwindale lies to the west, as well as the
unincorporated area of Vincent, and the city of Baldwin Park.
Azusa and
Glendora are to the north, the unincorporated community of
Charter Oak to the northeast,
San Dimas to the east, the unincorporated areas of Ramona and Via Verde, and the city of
Pomona to the southeast.
HISTORY
The city was founded in 1882 by Joseph Swift Phillips, on a Interwiki: convert » 2,000|acre|km2 tract that was purchased from the
John Edward Hollenbeck holdings. The City of Covina was named by a young engineer, Frederick Eaton, who was hired by Phillips to survey the area. Impressed by the way in which the valleys of the adjacent San Gabriel Mountains formed a natural cove around the vineyards that had been planted by the region's earlier pioneers, Eaton merged the words "cove" and "vine", and in 1885, created the name Covina for the new township.
[http://www.covina.com/about.htm]
The city's slogan, "One Mile Square and All There" was coined by Mrs F. E. Wolfarth, the winner of a 1922 slogan contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, when the incorporated area of the city was only (some say slightly less than) one square mile, making it the smallest city in area in the country.
The city was incorporated in 1901. It would be
orange and
grapefruit trees, not vineyards, that would soon blanket the area and make it famous. By 1909, the city was the third largest orange producer in the world, and it still claimed to have "the best oranges in the world" as late as the 1950s. Since
World War II, however, the orange groves have been largely replaced by single family and multiple family dwellings.
[Pitt, Leonard, and Dale Pitt. Los Angeles A to Z : an encyclopedia of the city and county. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 0-520-20274-0]
The Covina Valley Historical Society maintains an extensive archive illustrating the city's history in the 1911-built Firehouse Jail Museum, Covina's first municipal building, located immediately behind City Hall in Covina's Old Town.
GEOGRAPHY
Covina is located at Interwiki: coord » 34|5|30|N|117|52|45|W|type:city (34.091609, -117.879193).Interwiki: GR » 1
No freeways pass through the city limits, although it is centered in the midst of
Interstate 210 (
Foothill Freeway) to the north,
Interstate 10 (
San Bernardino Freeway) to the south,
Interstate 605 (
San Gabriel River Freeway) to the west, and the
State Route 57 (
Orange Freeway) to the east.
The
Southern Pacific Railroad, which reached Covina in 1884, and the
Metrolink San Bernardino Line pass through the city just north of the downtown area. The town is located at the foot of the
San Gabriel Mountains in the
San Gabriel Valley.
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of Interwiki: convert » 7.0|sqmi|km2. Interwiki: convert » 7.0|sqmi|km2 of it is land and 0.22% of it is water.
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