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Hesperia is a Victor Valley city in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, about 35 miles north of downtown San Bernardino at an elevation of 3,186 feet.

Hesperia's name means “western land,” from Hesperus, the Greek personification of the evening star and the west.

The Serrano people were the area's first inhabitants, and their village of Wá'peat stood on the Mojave River.

Hesperia began as part of the 1781 Spanish land grant Rancho San Felipe, Las Flores y el Paso del Cajon.

The Hesperia townsite was laid out in 1891 by Santa Fe Railroad land developers and promoted all across America as the “Omaha of the West” — but only about 1,000 settlers came, despite projections of 100,000 people by 1900.

In 1954, developer M. Penn Phillips teamed up with boxing legend Jack Dempsey to buy 23,000 acres of Hesperia and split it into 30,000 parcels — one of the largest land sales in California history.

Hesperia finally incorporated on July 1, 1988, after more than 82% of local voters approved cityhood.

Hesperia had a population of 99,818 in the 2020 census.

Hesperia has about 29,245 households averaging 3.44 people each (Census QuickFacts, 2020–2024), reflecting its young, family-heavy population.

Hesperia Lake Park is a pay-to-fish park built around a stocked lake of about 7 acres — trout in the cold months, catfish in summer — with camping and an equestrian camp, and no state fishing license is required.