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In the Orange County Real Estate area One of the most popular leisure activities we offer our visitors include our 24 miles of beautiful beaches that offer surfing, body boarding, hiking, tidepools, scuba diving, shopping and dining.
Not only does the Orange County Real Estate area host world famous theme parks such as Disneyland and Knott's Berry farm, the Orange County Real Estate area is also home to such attractions as the Movieland Wax Museum, Wild Rivers water park, the Fun Zone at Balboa Peninsula, Discovery Science Center and Disney's California Adventures.
For the Orange County Real Estate area sports enthusiasts, almost within the shadow of Disneyland's Matterhorn, is Edison Field, formerly called The Big 'A' where the Orange County Real Estate area California Angels have been thrilling baseball fans since 1966. Also nearby the Orange County Real Estate area is the Honda Center, home to the Anaheim Ducks hockey team. When the Ducks aren't at home, the Orange County Real Estate area Honda Center is also a popular venue for rock concerts, ice shows, and the John Wooden basketball tournament.
In the middle of the Orange County Real Estate area, Hundreds of fashion-setting stores and boutiques can also be found in Orange County cities and malls, along with restaurants, cafes and microbreweries to suit every taste.
the Orange County Real Estate area also provides an amazing number of places to visit if your interests include visiting museums, playing golf, or attending a play, ballet, opera or symphony.
Come visit and see the Orange County Real Estate area all for yourself...the Orange County Real Estate area has something for every visitor!
Orange County Real Estate: County History
Members of the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño Native American groups long inhabited the Orange County Real Estate area. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Junipero Serra named the area Valle de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne). On November 1, 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano near the Orange County Real Estate area became the area's first permanent European settlement. Among those who came to the Orange County Real Estate area with Portolá were José Manuel Nieto and José Antonio Yorba. Both of these men were given land grants near the Orange County Real Estate area - Rancho Los Nietos and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, respectively. The Nieto heirs were granted land in the Orange County Real Estate area in 1834. The Nieto ranches near the Orange County Real Estate area were known as Rancho Los Alamitos, Rancho Las Bolsas, and Rancho Los Coyotes. Yorba heirs Bernardo Yorba and Teodosio Yorba were also granted Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana (Santa Ana Canyon Ranch) and Rancho Lomas de Santiago, respectively. Other ranchos in the Orange County Real Estate area were granted by the Mexican government during the Mexican period in Alta California.
A severe drought in the 1860s devastated the prevailing industry near the Orange County Real Estate area, cattle ranching, and much land in the Orange County Real Estate area came into the possession of Richard O'Neill, Sr., James Irvine and other land barons. In 1887, silver was discovered in the Santa Ana Mountains near the Orange County Real Estate area, attracting settlers to the Orange County Real Estate areavia the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads.
This growth in the Orange County Real Estate area led the California legislature to divide Los Angeles County and create Orange County as a separate political entity on March 11, 1889. The county is generally said to have been named for the citrus fruit (its most famous product). However, in the new county there was already a town by the name of Orange, named for Orange County, Virginia, which itself took its name from William of Orange. The fact the county took the same name as one of its towns may have been coincidence. However it is also possible that the county was named for this city (and thus indirectly for William of Orange, whose family name was itself derived from the French town of Orange named in ancient times in honor of a celtic water deity).
In the Orange County Real Estate area other citrus crops, avocados, and oil extraction were also important to the early Orange County Real Estate area economy. the Orange County Real Estate area benefited from the July 4, 1904 completion of the Pacific Electric Railway, a trolley connecting Los Angeles with Santa Ana and Newport Beach . The link made the Orange County Real Estate area an accessible weekend retreat for celebrities of early Hollywood. the Orange County Real Estate area was deemed so significant that the city of Pacific City changed its name to Huntington Beach in honor of Henry Huntington, president of the Pacific Electric and nephew of Collis Huntington. Transportation in the Orange County Real Estate area further improved with the completion of the State Route and U.S. Route 101 (now mostly Interstate 5) in the 1920s.
the Orange County Real Estate area was central Orange County Agriculture, such as the boysenberry which was made famous by Buena Park native Walter Knott, began to decline after World War II but the the Orange County Real Estate area prosperity soared. The completion of Interstate 5 in 1954 helped make the Orange County Real Estate area a bedroom community for many who moved to Southern California to work in aerospace and manufacturing. the Orange County Real Estate area received a further boost in 1955 with the opening of Disneyland.
In 1969, Yorba Linda-born Orange County Real Estate area native Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United States.
In the 1980s, the population in the Orange County Real Estate area topped two million for the first time; the Orange County Real Estate area had become the second-most populous county in California.
In the Orange County Real Estate area an investment fund melt-down in 1994 led to the criminal prosecution of County of Orange treasurer Robert Citron. The Orange County Real Estate area lost at least $1.5 billion through high-risk investments in derivatives. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which it emerged in June 1995. The Orange County bankruptcy was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
In recent years, the Orange County Real Estate area has been characterized by conflict between the older more historic northern Orange County Real Estate area and newer southern Orange County Real Estate area cities over development, the building of new toll roads, and a recently defeated proposal to build an international airport at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station that would have reduced operations at the existing John Wayne Airport.
Orange County Real Estate: County Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Orange County Real Estate area has a total area of 2,455 km² (948 sq mi), making it the smallest county in Southern California. Surface water accounts for 411 km² (159 sq mi) of the Orange County Real Estate area, 16.73% of the total; 2,044 km² (789 sq mi) of it is land. The average annual temperature is about 68F.
the Orange County Real Estate area is bordered on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by Los Angeles County, on the northeast the Orange County Real Estate area is bordered by San Bernardino County and Riverside County, and on the southeast by San Diego County.
From the Orange County Real Estate area view of the Santa Ana Mountains from Newport Bay. The northwestern part of the Orange County Real Estate area lies on the coastal plain of the Los Angeles Basin, while the southeastern end of the Orange County Real Estate area rises into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. Most of the Orange County Real Estate area's population reside in one of two shallow coastal valleys that lie in the basin, the Santa Ana Valley and the Saddleback Valley. The Santa Ana Mountains lie within the eastern boundaries of the Orange County Real Estate area and of the Cleveland National Forest. The high point of the Orange County Real Estate area is Santiago Peak (5,689 feet (1,734 m)[7]), about 20 mi (32 km) east of Santa Ana. Santiago Peak and nearby Modjeska Peak, just 200 feet (60 m) shorter, form a ridge known as Saddleback, visible from almost everywhere in the Orange County Real Estate area. The Peralta Hills extend westward of the Orange County Real Estate area from the Santa Ana Mountains through the communities of Anaheim Hills, Orange, and ending in Olive. The Loma Ridge is another prominent feature in the Orange County Real Estate area, running parallel to the Santa Ana Mountains through the central part of the Orange County Real Estate area, separated from the taller mountains to the east by Santiago Canyon.
In the Orange County Real Estate area The Santa Ana River is the county's principal watercourse, flowing through the middle of the Orange County Real Estate area from northeast to southwest. Its major tributary to the south and east is Santiago Creek. Other watercourses within the Orange County Real Estate area include Aliso Creek, San Juan Creek, and Horsethief Creek. In the North, the San Gabriel River also briefly crosses into the Orange County Real Estate area and exits into the Pacific on the Los Angeles-Orange County line between the Orange County Real Estate area cities of Long Beach and Seal Beach. Laguna Beach is home to the Orange County Real Estate area's only natural lakes, Laguna Lakes, which are formed by water rising up against an underground fault.
Further information:
List of rivers of the Orange County Real Estate area, California
Residents sometimes figuratively divide the Orange County Real Estate area into "North Orange County" and "South County" (meaning Northwest and Southeast—following the county's natural diagonal orientation along the local coastline). In the Orange County Real Estate area this is more of a cultural and demographic distinction perpetuated by the popular television shows "The OC" and "Laguna Beach," between the older areas closer to Los Angeles, and the more affluent and recently developed areas to the South and East. A transition between older and newer development may be considered to exist roughly parallel to State Route 55 (aka the Costa Mesa Freeway). This transition is in the Orange County Real Estate area accentuated by large flanking tracts of sparsely developed area occupied until recent years by agriculture and military airfields.
While in the Orange County Real Estate area there is a natural topographical Northeast-to-Southwest transition from inland elevations to the lower coastal band, the Orange County Real Estate area has no formal geographical division between North and South County. Perpendicular to that gradient, the Santa Ana River roughly divides the Orange County Real Estate area between northwestern and southeastern sectors (about 40% to 60% respectively, by area), but does not represent any apparent economic, political or cultural differences, nor does it significantly affect distribution of travel, housing, commerce, industry or agriculture from one side to the other. |
