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San Jacinto's name means "St. Hyacinth" in Spanish, and according to local history the valley was named by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, who passed through the area in 1774.

The city grew out of Rancho San Jacinto Viejo, a 35,500-acre land grant made in 1842 to Don José Antonio Estudillo, whose family controlled some 110,000 acres in the valley and is credited with founding San Jacinto.

San Jacinto was founded in 1870 and incorporated in April 1888, the same year the Santa Fe railroad arrived, making it one of the oldest cities in Riverside County.

Two major earthquakes, in 1899 and 1918, destroyed all of San Jacinto's brick buildings, which were never rebuilt in brick again.

San Jacinto residents helped start the Ramona Pageant in 1923, an outdoor production that is designated California's official State Outdoor Play and is still performed at the Ramona Bowl near the city.

San Jacinto had a population of 53,898 at the 2020 census, up from 44,199 in 2010, and its roughly 14,600 households are large, averaging about 3.8 people each.

The city is home to the original campus of Mt. San Jacinto College, a community college whose district was formed by voters in 1962 and whose San Jacinto campus opened in 1965 on donated land.

San Jacinto is home to the Soboba Casino, owned and operated by the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians, whose reservation lies just east of the city and whose ancestors lived in villages throughout the San Jacinto Valley.

For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, San Jacinto's economy centered on dairies and agriculture, boosted by tourists visiting the area's nearby hot springs.

One of the city's oldest surviving landmarks is the Francisco Estudillo home, built in 1885 at Main and Seventh Streets; Estudillo was San Jacinto's first postmaster in 1870 and its second mayor in 1890.