Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Lemon Grove, CA

Lemon Grove is a small city in San Diego County that incorporated on July 1, 1977, becoming California's 414th city - but only after incorporation had failed in four earlier elections from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Lemon Grove's official motto is "Best Climate on Earth," and the city covers just 3.88 square miles.

Lemon Grove had a population of 27,627 at the 2020 census, up from 25,320 at the 2010 census.

Lemon Grove has about 9,051 households, and only about 52.5 percent of its homes are owner-occupied, a notably low rate for a suburban San Diego County city.

Lemon Grove's land was once part of Mission San Diego de Alcalá and was later granted to Santiago Argüello in a grant of more than 59,000 acres; the community was first settled in 1869 by sheep rancher Robert Allison, who bought thousands of acres from the Argüello heirs.

The Lemon Grove Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1893, and in 1894 the San Diego Union described Lemon Grove as "a sea of lemon trees."

Downtown Lemon Grove is marked by a giant lemon sculpture, 10 feet long and 6 feet wide, that has been cited as the largest lemon in the world.

In 1931 Lemon Grove was the site of the Lemon Grove Incident, the first successful lawsuit against school segregation in the United States, in which Mexican American parents defeated the school board's plan to force their children into a separate school.

By World War II most of Lemon Grove's citrus groves had disappeared and suburban development had begun.

Lemon Grove is served by the Orange Line of the San Diego Trolley light rail system.