A city about 30 miles East of downtown Los Angeles in California. Its nearby neighbors are Montclair (oddly enough), Pomona, Upland, and La Verne.
Basic information:
POPULATION: 33,998 (2000 census)
SIZE: 14.14 square miles
FOUNDED: April 1887
INCORPORATED: October 3, 1907
- from the Claremont City Website, http://www.ci.claremont.ca.us/
Summary:
Considering how many colleges are found in Claremont, you would expect it to be a decent sort of "college town". Instead, it's more like a retirement community. Few of the "little family owned shops" are interested in selling to a student budget.
Colleges:
The Claremont Colleges, found here, are the undergraduate Harvey Mudd (HMC), Pomona College, Scripps, Pitzer, and Claremont McKenna (CMC). Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a recently-established (and controversial) biotechnology institute, make up the graduate options. The non-affiliated Claremont School of Theology is to the north.
Random Fact: Claremont was also the endpoint of the 2,300-Mile American Solar Challenge car race in 2001.