About the District

Information on the 43rd District of California

For many years the gateway to the Los Angeles Basin was San Bernardino, situated on flat land where the route through the twisting, windy Cajon Pass took passengers on the Santa Fe Railroad and motorists on U.S. 66 from the hot and dusty high desert to the greener, tree-lined basin. There were orange groves around the little railroad towns and vineyards to the west; this was an agricultural zone until World War II, when Henry J. Kaiser built the West Coast's first major steel mill between the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific lines in Fontana, just west of San Bernardino. Today these lands have largely filled up.  

The Inland Empire is ideally situated between the beautiful Pacific Ocean beaches and the ski resorts of the San Bernardino Mountains. It also has some of the lowest real estate prices in the Los Angeles Basin and in the 1980's, a thriving small business economy developed. In this Inland Empire, San Bernardino County grew from 895,000 to 1,418,000 in the 1980's.

The Forty-third Congressional District of California consists of San Bernardino and the towns running west--Colton, Rialto, Fontana, Bloomington, and Ontario. View a map of the 43rd District.

Click on a city below:

• Bloomington
• Colton
• Fontana
• Inland Empire
• Ontario
• Rialto
• San Bernardino