Victorville is the hub of the High Desert — the city the rest of the Victor Valley shops in, works in, and drives through. It sits where Interstate 15 meets Highway 18 and old Route 66, and it is the largest city in the region by a wide margin.
The town began in 1885 as a station on the Santa Fe Railway line, named "Victor" for Jacob N. Victor, a railway official; the name became Victorville in 1901 to end the confusion with Victor, Colorado. Route 66 arrived in 1926 and made the town a stop for everyone driving into California — it still runs through Old Town as Seventh Street, where the California Route 66 Museum tells the story. During World War II the Victorville Army Air Field was completed (1943) north of town; it became George Air Force Base, closed in 1992, was annexed into the city in 1993, and is now the Southern California Logistics Airport. Victorville itself incorporated on September 21, 1962.
Victorville offers the widest range of housing in the High Desert, from the historic streets near Old Town and the golf-course homes of Spring Valley Lake to the newer master-planned tracts along Bear Valley Road and out toward the airport. It is the region's retail and medical center — the Mall of Victor Valley, the big-box corridors along Bear Valley Road and Roy Rogers Drive, and the hospitals are all here — and its position on I-15 makes it the most direct High Desert commute down the Cajon Pass. The Mojave River cuts a green ribbon of cottonwoods through the Mojave Narrows Regional Park on the city's east edge.
City Hall on Civic Drive anchors the civic center. Schools are split between the Victor Elementary School District and the Victor Valley Union High School District, with Victor Valley College serving the whole region from its campus on Bear Valley Road.
Victor Elementary & Victor Valley Union High School Districts
Victorville City Hall
14343 Civic Dr, Victorville, CA 92392
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