Rancho La Siesta Mobile Estates

Rancho La Siesta Mobile Estates covers 18.59 acres, the second largest of the 28 Fountain Valley communities on this site, and the city's address layer records 181 homes across nine streets. Magpie carries 41 of the addresses and Albatross 37, alongside Hawk, Gold Finch and Myna, with Catalpa, Eucalyptus, Ironwood and Balsa filling out a scheme of birds and trees. The county assesses the whole property as a single land parcel.

The city zones the site A1 while the general plan designates 83 percent of it Medium Density Residential, 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 the address range to Gisler Elementary and Talbert Middle, and Huntington Beach Union High School District's boundary map puts it inside Fountain Valley High.

The name means the rest ranch, and the streets keep the countryside going: birds on Albatross, Gold Finch, Hawk, Magpie and Myna, trees on Balsa, Catalpa, Eucalyptus and Ironwood. There are 181 homes across more than eighteen acres, and the buildings date to 1965.

In 1965 that was an accurate description of the surroundings. Fountain Valley had incorporated only eight years earlier, in 1957, when 160 of its 189 registered voters cast a ballot and 91 said yes. The council would not let a tract break ground until every element of the master plan was adopted, the first one did so in 1962, and this was still farm country with houses appearing at its edges.