Riverview

Riverview covers 288.3 acres and the county records 752 parcels and 739 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,050 square feet. Twenty five named streets run 7.48 miles within it, 17th through 22nd Streets crossing Alona St, Candis Ave, College Ave, Edna Dr, English St, Elm St and Forest Ave. The zoning layer gives 97.3 acres to single family residence, 67.9 acres to open space land and 44.6 acres to general commercial.

The open space layer records the River View Golf Course inside the boundary at 81.78 acres as private open space, second only to the Willowick course in Santa Anita among the open spaces inside a Santa Ana neighborhood. Riverview Park adds 8.3 acres as a community park with a ball diamond, a basketball court, a picnic area, a concession stand and a playground, and the 17th Street Triangle Park adds a pocket 0.7 acres with a trail. Two school districts share the ground, Santa Ana Unified over 83.8 percent and Garden Grove Unified over 16.2 percent, and Gonzalo Felicitas Mendez Fundamental Intermediate sits inside the boundary.

Two of the neighborhood's landmarks sit side by side on West Santa Clara Avenue. River View Golf Course, eighteen holes laid out along the river at 1800 W. Santa Clara, takes up more than eighty acres of the neighborhood's open ground. Next door at 1714 W. Santa Clara is the log cabin of the Orange Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, a hunting and fishing conservation group that received its charter in 1938 and whose walls are still covered with decades of mounted fish and game. The Riverview Neighborhood Association holds its quarterly meetings in that cabin, which is an unusual thing for a postwar tract neighborhood to be able to say.

The houses themselves are early 1950s, put up in a few quick years on former farm ground as Santa Ana more than doubled in population between 1950 and 1960. The street names read like a list of what people wanted then, Riviera, Pacific, Elm, Spruce and Poplar, and the trail along the top of the levee at 17th Street still leads down to the river the neighborhood was named for.