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A view of Anaheim Hills from the Anaheim Hills Golf Club

Anaheim Hills is a community encompassing the eastern portions of the city of Anaheim, in Orange County, California. [1]

Government

The 92807 zip code serves the western portion while the 92808 zip code serves the eastern portion, and although residents typically identify themselves as living in the community of "Anaheim Hills" (as opposed to the city of "Anaheim"), the United States Postal Service considers only the larger incorporated city's name of "Anaheim" as acceptable.[2] Anaheim Hills is served by Anaheim Fire Department Stations 9 and 10.[3] The community is served by two of the City of Anaheim's libraries, the Canyon Hills Library and the East Anaheim Library.[4]

History

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Anaheim farmlands with Anaheim Hills in the background as it appeared in 1925

Prior to the modern era of Anaheim Hills, the region was owned by Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Juan Pablo Peralta. They worked the 210,000 acre (850 km²) Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda site in the early 1800s, which was used as a livestock ranch. It would change hands several times before it was sold to Louis Nohl in 1943 by the Bixby family.

Meanwhile in the nearby city of Anaheim, a housing boom was associated with the building of Disneyland in 1955 and other developments of that era. Anaheim began to expand its borders to encompass more land and the only direction was east, towards the location of the large Nohl Family farm.

In 1970, Nohl sold the land to the City of Anaheim in order to create the community of Anaheim Hills. In October of 1971, Texaco Industries introduced an award winning plan, which they called a "master planned community." A premium golf course, nature trails, large homes, natural settings, and ranches were added to the Texaco Development plan in order to add to the appeal of the community for potential home buyers in the early 1970s, as they were amenities uncommon to many other Southern California communities at the time. Advertisements during this period were consistent in marketing the community as "The New Land."

The first community to premiere was Westridge which showcased 325 homes in 1972. The homes sold within two years of its premiere, creating an interest in the Anaheim Hills region. By the 1980s, Anaheim Hills had grown to 15,000 residents. There is a police substation, library and community center along Santa Ana Canyon Road.

Education

Anaheim Hills is within the Orange Unified School District. All six of the elementary schools in Anaheim Hills, Anaheim Hills Elementary, Canyon Rim Elementary, Running Springs Elementary, Imperial Elementary, Nohl Canyon Elementary, and Crescent Elementary perform well, and are all blue ribbon schools, which is the most accredited award an elementary school can achieve. And four of them are California Distinguished Schools, an award only the top 5% of schools in California are rewarded. Anaheim Hills Elementary ranks third statewide among similar schools. [5]

Communities

Anaheim Hills contains a number of smaller communities including Peralta Hills, Hidden Canyon, Copa de Oro, Viewpointe, Vista del Sol, Pointe Premier, and the soon-to-be-built Village of Fiesole and Villa Palatino.

Another notable community addition coming to Anaheim Hills is the Mountain Park Development pioneered by the Irvine Company. It will be the final master planned community offered in Orange County, California, and will encompass 2,500 homes, a shopping district, and an elementary school. The Community has been in the planning phases since 1992, and was approved by the city council in 2005. It was scaled back from 8,000 homes to less than 3,000 after several petitions and complaints from residents who did not want their hills to face overdevelopment. It will push the developed portions of Anaheim Hills to the Riverside County border, and will push the population of Anaheim Hills to a total of 62,000 residents. The development is set on a location that was selected as the prison for Southern California in the 1960s, but due to the economical growth in Orange County, the project was abandoned, and this abandonment gave way for the growth in the Anaheim Hills area in the 1970s.

Disasters

Landslides and wildfires are frequent occurrences in Anaheim Hills. Santa Ana Winds are a major factor in fueling the wildfires in the area. [4] [5]. A landslide in January 1993, destroyed over 30 luxury homes and impacted over 200 others. [6]


During the winter of 2005, a massive twenty day rain event in Orange County lead to not only flooding, but a landslide that caused the unstable hillside along the street of Ramsgate Drive to give way.[6][7] Two and a half multi-million dollar homes slid down the hillside, and the private street below was destroyed. In all, the entire hillside, just over a 1/3 of a square mile in size was destroyed costing a total estimated damage of $19.5 million, the second costliest landslide ever in Orange County.[citation needed]

The Sierra Peak wildfire

Following the unusually wet winter of 2005 brought drought conditions to Southern California that hadn't been seen for nearly a decade. The normally lush hills turned to dry golden tinder.

A wildfire broke out on February 7, 2006 in the Cleveland National Forest, the National Forest that separates Anaheim Hills from the Riverside County Border. This fire grew intensely after days of fierce 20 mph winds and soaring 80 degree Fahrenheit temperatures, which fueled the relentless blaze. On the morning of February 9, 2006, conditions worsened, and out of fear for the homes that sit only half a mile away in Anaheim Hills, nearly 75% of the Community of Anaheim Hills was under evacuation, some mandatory and some voluntary. This resulted in the closing of two local elementary schools for two full days, and several other schools served as shelters for the evacuees during the day. [8][9][10]

On February 10, when Canyon Rim Elementary was the most threatened public structure, those students were moved to Canyon High School, which housed all the evacuated schools. The fire was soon put out, but it burned over 10,000 acres (40 km²) of land and caused significant natural resource damage by burning a recovering Tecate cypress grove. It was later determined that a controlled blaze set by the Cleveland National Forest started the fire, and the National Forestry Service was forced to pay the large bill from the firefighting efforts.

The Windy Ridge Fire

On Sunday, March 11th, 2007 at 07:53 AM (PST), a fire possibly started by a stolen vehicle on the southbound 241 Windy Ridge Toll Plaza, destroyed over 2,000 acres (8 km²) in Anaheim Hills and the city of Orange. [11] Due to winds moving as fast as 35 mph, an estimated 2,500 homes were evacuated, with 2 injuries reported. [12]

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ City of Anaheim General Plan - Land Use Element - See "The Hill and Canyon Area" under "Goals and Policies" for a map and description of the Anaheim Hills area.
  2. ^ U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup
  3. ^ Anaheim Fire Department - Anaheim Hills Station
  4. ^ City of Anaheim - Public Library Locations
  5. ^ California Department of Education, 2005-06 Accountability Progress Reporting for Anaheim Hills Elementary
  6. ^ http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/apr05/NN_CAlandslides.html
  7. ^ http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/02/06/sections/local/local/article_400632.php
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  11. ^ http://www.nbc4.tv/news/11225840/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news
  12. ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-031107fire,1,4111286.story?track=rss

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