Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Apple Valley, CA

Apple Valley is an incorporated town in the Victor Valley of San Bernardino County, at the southern edge of the Mojave Desert - it is one of only twenty-two incorporated municipalities in California that use the name 'town' instead of 'city.'

Apple Valley was incorporated on November 14, 1988, by which time more than 41,000 people already lived there.

Apple Valley had a population of 75,791 at the 2020 census, up from 69,135 in 2010, with about 25,184 households averaging 2.98 persons each and a 69.9% owner-occupied housing rate.

The town spreads across about 73 square miles of high desert at an elevation of roughly 2,947 feet, bordered by Victorville to the west and Hesperia to the southwest.

Developer Newton T. Bass and Bernard 'Bud' Westlund launched the Apple Valley Ranchos development in 1946, marketing the sunny desert valley as a relaxed alternative to city life.

The Apple Valley Inn opened on Thanksgiving Day 1948 as a showcase hotel built to impress prospective land buyers and draw celebrities to the new development.

Western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans moved to Apple Valley in 1965 after Rogers leased the Apple Valley Inn and put his name on it, making the town their permanent home.

The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum opened in Apple Valley in 1967 before relocating to Victorville in 1976, and both Rogers and Evans are buried in town at Sunset Hills Memorial Park.

State Route 18 through Apple Valley carries the name 'Happy Trails Highway,' after the theme song of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

In 1926, Nolie and Lela Murray opened Murray's Dude Ranch in Apple Valley, one of the few vacation spots in the West that welcomed Black guests during the segregation era.