Is Claremont the IE? The Sanamluang gets crowded but its on par with the Hollywood locale.
I think so. Someone told me the western border of IE is the 57/71 freeways. Others say it’s like east of Upland/Ontario. What is the Inland Empire? - InlandEmpire.us
does it really matter? if it’s at least 30 miles east of Downtown…it’s IE to me lol
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OK this is extremely nerdy even for you Bob
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not to spoil where I live but I am technically right outside the gray. So is most of the IE, so the Asian restaurants over there would still be OK, in some sense.
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so inside the fireball radius and immediately getting vaporized would be the best case in this scenario?
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The food will be more 
in that zone…
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Bruins are ok…Trojans, not so much.
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Brief off topic:
I actually used a similar concept to have my jury duty location moved (showing that the distance the way the crow flies was NOT the same as the commuting distance).
Uh, do you often use a nuke map???
Having been a Trojan, I’m fine w/ that vile campus being gone…
Okay, back to the topic. 
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Lol I am ambivalent about that statement. #DegreesFromBothPlaces
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@matthewkang Let’s not get into another Eastside/Westside here 
When I lived there as a very small child, the IE was just the Riverside/San Bernardino area and the then small and then rural towns around (Redlands, Highland, Bloomington, Rubidoux, Fontana, Rialto). Pomona was always called “the Pomona Valley.” Where the exact boundary began and ended, I have no idea, especially now that it’s almost all paved over.
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IE is the Riverside and San Bernardino county. Technically Palm Spings is excluded because it’s it’s own Metro area. My friend who works for the Press Enterprise doesn’t cover a lot of the stuff that goes there because they have their own local coverage including from the TV stations there (which is a whole other ball of wax)
I used to get into with folks about Diamond Bar being in the SGV vs. IE. Especially when we lost our 714 status and went to 909. But it has long been considered the furthest of the SGV. Including way back when the LAT would include regional sections. SGV was our regional insert.
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There’s no canonical definition of the Inland Empire. The closest thing to an official definition would be the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area (which includes Palm Springs) but that’s definitely too big.
When Jim speaks, everyone should listen 
I’ve literally never heard of the phrase “Pomona Valley”
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Pomona Valley is supposedly between the San Gabriel and the San Bernardino valleys, but looking at topographic maps there’s no obvious dividing line between the Pomona and San Bernardino valleys. I guess it’s roughly the 15 or Cherry Avenue?
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Wikipedia. As someone once wrote: “Might as well just ask your cat” 
(and that’s acknowledging some very good entries there by conscientious people)
I do like, and agree with: “the boundaries of the Inland Empire are nebulous.”
That San Bernardino and Ontario and Pomona aren’t separated by any hills make a separate “Pomona Valley” likely not geographically accurate, but historically accurate. At least there are some low, rolling hills separating Riverside from those cities.