Fairhaven

Fairhaven covers 138.3 acres and the county records 332 parcels and 327 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,463 square feet. Seventeen named streets run 4.68 miles within it, among them Brynwood St, Grovemont St, Hathaway St, Joana Dr and Obarr Pl. The zoning layer gives 55 acres to single family residence, 14.5 acres to planned shopping center and 14 acres to professional, and it still carries 7.7 acres as general agricultural.

The general plan splits the boundary almost evenly, 55.9 acres as urban neighborhood and 51.4 acres as low density residential, and the city draws its Grand Ave and 17th Street focus area across part of it. Two school districts share the ground: Santa Ana Unified covers 57.8 percent and Orange Unified covers 42.2 percent. Orange County Classical Academy sits inside the boundary on the city school layer.

Fairhaven takes its name from Fairhaven Memorial Park, the cemetery a short way east of the neighborhood on the same Fairhaven Avenue that runs along its northern edge. Businessman Oliver Halsell and a group of local investors opened it on August 28, 1911, and built it as a memorial park rather than a traditional cemetery, setting flat markers into open lawn instead of rows of upright headstones.

The houses around the cemetery came later and mostly at once. The tract is overwhelmingly a 1960s neighborhood, filled in as Santa Ana's population swelled from 45,533 in 1950 to 156,601 by 1970, with a scatter of older houses from the 1920s and 1930s still standing near the cemetery gates from before the postwar tract went up around them.