Santa Anita

Santa Anita covers 508.7 acres and the county records 1,237 parcels and 1,186 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,255 square feet. Forty eight named streets run 13.8 miles within it, and the naming is unusually varied: Calle Del Norte, Calle Del Sur and Calle Soledad sit beside Bali Hi Ln, Amy Common, Charlaine Ave, Bewley St and Corwin Ct.

The zoning layer gives 157.2 acres to open space land, 132.6 acres to two family residence and 84 acres to the Harbor Mixed Use Transit Corridor Specific Plan. The Willowick Golf Course accounts for most of that open space, recorded at 102.11 acres on the city open space layer. Three city parks sit inside the boundary as well: Cesar Chavez Campesino Park at 6.5 acres, Santa Anita Park at 5 acres with a municipal pool and a recreation center, and McFadden Triangle Park at 0.8 acres. Garden Grove Unified covers 97.3 percent of the boundary.

Out on the west side, between Harbor Boulevard and roughly Jackson Street and running from Campesino Park south to Santa Anita Park, is Barrio Santa Anita. This was farm and river bottom country long after the rest of the city had filled in.

The houses came in waves, most of them between the 1940s and the 1960s, and the typical house across the neighborhood dates to 1958. Children on the western streets are zoned to Russell Elementary, which belongs to the Garden Grove Unified School District rather than to Santa Ana's own.