Overview
About Fountain Crest Condominiums
Fountain Crest Condominiums holds 57 addresses on 2.06 acres fronting Brookhurst Street, all of them on that one street. The county assesses 56 separate parcels here, close to one for each home, and records a median building area of 752 square feet with two bedrooms on 27 of the homes, one on 19 and three on 10. Only Shadow Lane and Heil Park cover less ground among the 28 Fountain Valley communities on this site.
The general plan designates the whole boundary High Density Residential, which allows 15 to 30 homes to the acre, and FEMA places all of it in Zone X as an area with reduced flood risk due to levee. Fountain Valley School District's school locator assigns this address range to Plavan Elementary and Masuda Middle, and Huntington Beach Union High School District's boundary map puts it inside Fountain Valley High.
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How Fountain Crest Condominiums was built
Fifty seven small homes on two acres fronting Brookhurst Street, built in 1985 and 1986, most of them two bedrooms and around 750 square feet. That size and that date tell the same story: by the mid 1980s Fountain Valley had run out of farmland and was building on its leftover street frontage instead, at a scale the tract builders of the 1960s would not have bothered with.
The land was farmed until it was not. This flat between the Santa Ana River and Bolsa Chica was part of Rancho Las Bolsas, a 33,460 acre grant confirmed in 1834 to Maria Catarina Ruiz, and it passed to sugar beet and vegetable growers after the American takeover. Around 1896 Thomas B. Talbert's family bought more than 300 acres of peat and swampland here and opened a general store, and the settlement that grew around it took the family name. The post office opened in 1899 and the Pacific Electric ran its Santa Ana to Huntington Beach cars through Talbert from 5 July 1909.
By the Numbers
Fountain Crest Condominiums by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Fountain Crest Condominiums lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Fountain Crest Condominiums
The Fountain Valley School District school locator returns Plavan Elementary and Masuda Middle at every one of 30 interior points tested inside this boundary, and the boundary map Huntington Beach Union High School District publishes places the whole of it inside Fountain Valley High. Enrollment below is the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 3,171 students
9-12 · 263 students
6-8 · 768 students
6-8 · 753 students
K-5 · 631 students
K-5 · 607 students
K-5 · 530 students
K-5 · 526 students
K-5 · 470 students
FAQs
Common questions about Fountain Crest Condominiums
How big is Fountain Crest Condominiums?
It covers 2.06 acres with 57 addresses on the city's record, and the county assesses 56 separate parcels. Of the 28 Fountain Valley communities on this site, only Shadow Lane at 1.91 acres and Heil Park at 0.96 acres are smaller.
When was Fountain Crest built?
The county assessor dates the buildings to 1985 and 1986. The subdivision was recorded as Tract 12393 in 1986 by Hall and Foreman, Inc., with George D. Shambeck as surveyor, at Miscellaneous Maps book 552, pages 14 and 15.
Which schools serve Fountain Crest?
Fountain Valley School District's school locator returns Plavan Elementary, K to 5 with 530 students, and Masuda Middle, 6 to 8 with 768 students, at all 30 interior points tested. The site is inside the Fountain Valley High boundary published by Huntington Beach Union High School District, which enrolls 3,171.
How large are the homes at Fountain Crest?
The county assessor records a median building area of 752 square feet across the 56 assessed parcels, with two bedrooms on 27 homes, one bedroom on 19 and three on 10.
Who developed the land at Fountain Crest?
The 1973 parcel map that first divided this land was prepared at the request of Classic Development Corp., and it is signed by Ronald W. Martin, R.C.E. 14456. The condominium tract recorded thirteen years later names Hall and Foreman, Inc. as engineer.