Summit

Summit covers 488.3 acres in the far east of Anaheim, the largest community in this section, with 12.4 miles of street and 68 named roads. The city records 1,797 addresses on 1,485 parcels, 1,468 of them detached single family, with a median lot of 6,380 square feet. Almost the whole boundary, 411.7 acres, is zoned under the Summit of Anaheim Hills Specific Plan, a single planning document written for this ground.

One hundred and forty-six of the 488 acres carry the Open Space designation and a further 9.6 are designated School, so nearly a third of the community is not built on. Four hundred and thirty-six of the 1,485 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 2,350 square feet of ground floor and reads 838 of them as two-story. The boundary lies wholly in ZIP 92808 and in flood zone X, and Summit sits in Orange Unified School District, feeding Canyon High.

The Summit is the biggest single community boundary in Anaheim Hills, close to 490 acres and about 1,800 homes, and it sits on ground with a longer story than the houses suggest. The Butterfield Stage route ran through Weir Canyon beside it, and a monument in the canyon marks the Mexican ox cart drivers who hauled over the same trail. In 1857 the outlaw Juan Flores and what was left of his gang hid in Weir Canyon after the manhunt that followed the killing of a sheriff.

The canyon kept its cattle for another century. Louis E. Nohl took a deed to the Bixby land in the Santa Ana Canyon on 6 October 1943 and grazed 1,100 head across roughly 5,800 acres. The Anaheim Hills planned community began on 4,200 of those acres in 1970, but this eastern end came much later. Anaheim adopted the Summit of Anaheim Hills Specific Plan for this ground in 1988, and the houses went up through the 1990s with 1994 the median year.