Presidents Tract

Presidents Tract covers 138.7 acres and the city's address layer records 646 addresses inside the boundary across 639 parcels, on 5.2 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.149 acres. Twenty of the twenty two street names are presidents: Adams, Buchanan, Fillmore, Garfield, Grant, Harding, Harrison, Hayes, Hoover, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Madison, McKinley, Monroe, Pierce, Roosevelt, Van Buren and Wilson, with Knott Avenue and Western Avenue as the edges. The city's own street layer carries Fillmore twice, once spelled Fillmroe.

Zoning runs to 87.7 acres of 6,000 square foot one family residential lots, 13.8 acres of medium density multifamily and a 0.6 acre corner of Community Shopping. Mail carries the 90620 zip code, and the neighborhood feeds Centralia Elementary, Orangeview Junior High and Western High.

Adams, Buchanan, Fillmore, Garfield, Grant, Harding, Harrison, Hayes, Hoover, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Madison, McKinley, Monroe, Pierce, Roosevelt, Van Buren and Wilson. Nineteen presidents on 139 acres, and the list stops where it stops for a reason. There is no Truman, no Eisenhower and no Kennedy, so whoever drew this grid was working from the history books rather than from the newspaper, and the neighborhood carries a nineteenth century flavor even though the houses are all postwar.

About 646 homes fill the boundary on lots near a seventh of an acre, bounded by Knott Avenue on one side and Western Avenue on the other. Knott Avenue is named for Walter Knott, who leased ten acres in Buena Park in December 1920, took over six crossbred berry plants from Rudolph Boysen in 1932 and gave the boysenberry its name, then built Ghost Town in 1940 and turned the family farm into Knott's Berry Farm in 1947.