El Monte lies in Los Angeles County in California, USA. It is located east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. It is a residential, commercial and industrial city with a population that, in 2000, totalled 115, 965. In 2002, it was ranked the 44th largest city in California and the 191st largest city in the United States. Historically, it is known as “The End of the Santa Fe Trail.”

Originally, El Monte was just an island in the middle of the San Gabriel Valley. The island itself is approximately 7 miles long and 4 miles wide. El Monte was not named after a mountain as many people might assume. In archaic Spanish, the name El Monte means ‘meadow or marsh’ or ‘the wooded place’. The city was named by Spanish soldiers and missionaries that stopped here in between 1770 and 1830. The island was located between two rivers and was richly abundant in wispy willows, cattails, and alders, as well as wild grapefruit and watercress. In the 1850’s, when the state was organized into more organized townships, the State Legislature named it the El Monte Township. The name didn’t stick and quickly reverted to simply El Monte.

The top employers in the city, as of the 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, are:

A) Wells Fargo, which employees 1,800 people

B) El Monte Union High School District, which employs 1,742 people

C) Mountain View Elementary School District, which employs 1,007 people

D) Vons, which employs 736 people

E) Longo Toyota-Lexus, which employs 600 people

F) City of El Monte, which hires 526 people

G) M.C. Gill Corporation, Driftwood Dairy, and the Cathay Bank, all of who each hires 250 people.



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