Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Alhambra, CA

Alhambra was incorporated on July 11, 1903, and it takes its name from Washington Irving's book Tales of the Alhambra, inspired by the famous Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain.

Alhambra's founder was Benjamin Davis Wilson, known as 'Don Benito,' a wealthy developer who acquired much of the land in the 1840s and later subdivided it.

In 1875, Wilson and his son-in-law James de Barth Shorb developed what is credited as the first subdivision in California to have water piped onto the lots through iron pipes.

Alhambra had a population of 82,868 in the 2020 census, packed into just 7.63 square miles — a density of about 10,859 people per square mile.

Alhambra has about 30,425 households, and only about 41% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Alhambra is known as the 'Gateway to the San Gabriel Valley' and sits about 8 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

Alhambra's first school was Ramona Convent Secondary School, founded in 1890 on hillside land donated by the Shorb family — thirteen years before the city was even incorporated.

Alhambra High School was established in 1898, five years before the city's incorporation, and the city's public high schools today also include Mark Keppel High School and San Gabriel High School.

The land that became Alhambra was once part of a 300,000-acre Spanish land grant to soldier Manuel Nieto, and the nearby San Gabriel Mission had been founded in 1771.

More than half of Alhambra's residents are foreign-born, after successive waves of Italian immigrants in the 1950s, Mexican immigrants in the 1960s, and Chinese immigrants in the 1980s reshaped the city.