Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Chino, CA

Chino is a city in western San Bernardino County that incorporated on February 28, 1910, and its motto is "Where Everything Grows."

Chino grew out of the Spanish land grant Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, and its name is the Spanish word for "curly."

The town of Chino was laid out beginning in 1887, when rancho owner Richard Gird subdivided his land; decades earlier, the Battle of Chino had been fought at the rancho during the Mexican-American War.

Chino's Yorba-Slaughter Adobe, built in 1850 by Californio rancher Raimundo Yorba, is one of the oldest standing buildings in San Bernardino County.

Chino had a population of 91,403 at the 2020 census, up 24.5 percent from 73,406 at the 2010 census.

Chino has about 27,261 households, among the largest in California at 3.25 persons per household, and about 64 percent of its homes are owner-occupied.

Chino's fertile valley was an agricultural mecca from the 1890s through the mid-20th century, famous for sugar beets and for "Chino corn," which was marketed throughout the Pacific coast; the city's official crest features an overflowing cornucopia.

From the 1950s through the 1980s Chino's dairy industry, anchored by ethnic Dutch farm families, made it the largest milk-producing community in California, the nation's largest milk-producing state.

Two California state prisons, the California Institution for Men and the California Institution for Women, lie within Chino's city limits, along with the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility, and the men's institution is one of the city's largest employers.

The Chino Valley Unified School District is the city's largest employer, and Chino's public high schools are Chino High School and Don Lugo High School.