Amberwood

Amberwood is a 16.9 acre block off Gilbert Street in northwest Fullerton, and the city's address record places 230 addresses inside it across only three parcels. The whole neighborhood is covered by three street names, Avenida Selva, Conejo Lane and Gilbert Street, and 0.75 miles of the street inside the boundary is private. The city zones the 16.7 acres it maps here R-3 Limited Density Multiple Family Residential under a Medium Density Residential general plan designation.

Mail goes to ZIP 92833 and the boundary sits in Fullerton council district 1. The state liquefaction zone the city publishes covers 2.2 of those acres. Amberwood falls inside both Fullerton Elementary and Fullerton Joint Union High, with Sunset Lane Elementary 0.4 miles out at 700 students, Robert C. Fisler Elementary at 0.41 miles carrying 892 students across grades K through 8, D. Russell Parks Junior High at 0.71 miles and Sunny Hills High at 0.79 miles with 2,337 students.

Amberwood was built in 1973 and added to through the rest of the decade, finishing around 1979 with roughly 230 attached homes on 16.9 acres. It went up on the west side of Fullerton at a moment when the city was converting the last of its working groves into housing, and the homes were designed around private front patios rather than back yards, which is what the land budget allowed.

The city took its name from George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. What followed was sixty years of Valencia oranges and other citrus, and later oil, and the street name Avenida Selva, the forest avenue, belongs to the housing that replaced the groves rather than to anything that grew here.