Baldwin Park is a city located in the central San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Baldwin Park began as part of cattle grazing land belonging to the San Gabriel Mission.

As of September 1882, the first school house was built on the southeast corner of North Maine and Los Angeles Avenues in 1884.

It contained two rows of double seats, a central aisle leading to the teacher's desk, and a heating stove at the north end.

The first Board of Trustees took office on July 1, 1888, and elected Miss Jessie Washburn to teach the district school that fall.

It later became a private Japanese school and stood as a landmark until it caught fire on September 5, 1936, and burned to the ground.

Today, the Baldwin Park Unified School District lies contiguously with the city's borders.

The district is adopting data driven strategies to help students achieve better scores in the API tests.

In the 1950s, Vias Turkey Ranch was about one mile (1.6 km) from the now 10 Freeway just off of Frazier Avenue.

Popular pastimes in the 1950s included riding at the horse stables across the bridge of the San Gabriel River, which was an open sand and rock river bed, and ride one hour for the sum of $1.00, a hefty price at that time considering that the minimum wage was fifty cents an hour.

Baldwin Park is home to the first In-N-Out burger stand, opened on October 22, 1948.

In summer 2005, Save Our State, an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura, launched a series of protests against the Danzas Indigenas, art at the Baldwin Park train station designed for the MTA in 1993 by artist Judy Baca.

At issue was one particular inscription--It was better before they came—that Save Our State claimed was directed against Anglo whites.

According to Baca, that sentence was uttered by an Anglo white Baldwin Park resident in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into the San Gabriel Valley following World War II.

Baldwin Park experiences a mild winter and warm to hot summer.

[23] Prior to 1960, the area was included in the unincorporated portion of the now defunct El Monte Township (1950 pop.

[21] The 2020 United States Census reported that Baldwin Park had a population of 72,176 people.

According to the 2010 United States Census, Baldwin Park had a median household income of $51,153, with 17.5% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

[44] According to the city's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[45] the top employers in the city are: In the California State Legislature, Baldwin Park is in the 22nd Senate District, represented by Democrat Susan Rubio, and in the 48th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Blanca Rubio.