Vesuvius

Vesuvius is 15.1 acres holding 77 addresses on six streets, three of which name volcanoes: South Vesuvius Drive carries 23, East Mauna Loa Street 17 and South Etna Circle five, with South Tolbert Street, East Spurr Circle and East Mujica Place completing the set. The parcel layer counts 77 parcels, one for every address and every one a single family residence, on lots running to a median of 0.17 acres with structures to a median of 2,136 square feet and four bedrooms.

The zoning is R-1 across all 15.1 acres and the general plan carries 15 of them as Low Density Residential. The fire hazard map splits the community, with 11.1 acres outside the wildland classification, 2.1 in the High class and 1.8 in Moderate. Vesuvius is the only Brea community the Census school district boundary splits, with 84 percent of it in Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified and 16 percent in Brea Olinda. Golden Elementary is 0.55 miles away with 834 students and Colonel J. K. Tuffree Middle 1.28 miles with 566.

The city records seventy-seven homes across fifteen acres, built between 1964 and 1975 at a typical size near 2,136 square feet on lots of about a sixth of an acre, all of them detached, none carrying a unit number. The whole of the boundary lies inside the liquefaction zone the city maps on the valley floor, which is a soils question rather than a hillside one and one to put to an inspector.

The name is the volcano above the Bay of Naples, and it is the only classical name in a city whose streets otherwise commemorate oil men, orange varieties and Basque shepherds. Brea has been renaming its streets since the beginning, with Pomona Avenue becoming Brea Boulevard, Brea-Olinda Road becoming Birch Street, Cedar becoming Imperial Highway and Deodora becoming Lambert Road, so an Italian volcano landing here in the 1960s is well within the local tradition.