Girl Tract

Girl Tract covers 180.4 acres and the city's address layer records 914 addresses inside the boundary across 914 parcels, one address to each lot, on 7.5 miles of street. Thirty one street names run inside and most are given names: Barbara, Beatrice, Belle, Bernadette, Bernice, Blanche, Brenda, Cecilia, Celeste, Christine, Claudia, Clementine, Constance, Corinne, Cornelia, Diane, Elizabeth, Eudora, Florence, Greta, Hester, Lorinda, Marcella, Marian, Miranda and Myra among them.

The city zones 130.9 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots, and two Orange County Transportation Authority bus stops sit inside the boundary. The neighborhood straddles two elementary districts on the city's own layer, 140.7 acres in Cypress School District and 39.7 acres in Savanna School District, and on the Cypress side it feeds Frank Vessels Elementary. Most of the boundary feeds Lexington Junior High and Cypress High, with the eastern edge in Orangeview Junior High and Western High.

Barbara, Beatrice, Belle, Bernadette, Bernice, Blanche, Brenda, Carlotta, Cecilia, Celeste, Christine, Claudia, Clementine, Constance, Corinne, Cornelia, Diane, Elizabeth, Eudora, Florence, Greta, Hester, Lorinda, Marcella, Marian, Miranda, Myra. Around thirty streets across 180 acres, and every one is a woman's given name. Look at the order and you can see the neighborhood being built: the B names sit together, the C names sit together, the M names sit together, because each letter went in as its own phase and somebody kept working down the list.

Roughly 914 homes fill the boundary on lots near a seventh of an acre, the standard postwar Orange County ranch lot. It is one of the largest single themed grids in the city and one of the easiest to date, because naming subdivision streets after wives, daughters and film actresses was a 1950s and 1960s habit that fell out of fashion quickly afterwards.