Alameda County

Anaheim is a city outside Los Angeles, in Southern California. It's home to the Disneyland Resort, a massive complex of family-friendly, Disney-themed rides, restaurants, hotels and shops. The city's also home to pro sports teams. The Honda Center is the indoor arena where the Anaheim Ducks hockey team plays, and Angel Stadium is the home field of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.
Anaheim was founded by fifty&nbsp;German families&nbsp;in 1857 and&nbsp;incorporated&nbsp;as the second city in&nbsp;Los Angeles County&nbsp;on March 18, 1876;&nbsp;Orange County was split off from Los Angeles County in 1889. Anaheim remained largely an agricultural community until&nbsp;Disneyland&nbsp;opened in 1955. This led to the construction of several hotels and motels around the area, and residential districts in Anaheim soon followed. The city also developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts and canned fruit. Anaheim is a&nbsp;charter city.
Anaheim's city limits extend almost the full width of Orange County, from&nbsp;Cypress&nbsp;in the west, twenty miles east to the&nbsp;Riverside County&nbsp;line, encompassing a diverse range of neighborhoods. In the west, mid-20th-century&nbsp;tract houses&nbsp;predominate.&nbsp;Downtown Anaheim&nbsp;has three mixed-use historic districts, the largest of which is the Anaheim Colony. South of downtown, a center of commercial activity of regional importance begins, the&nbsp;Anaheim&ndash;Santa Ana edge city, which stretches east and south into the cities of Orange, Santa Ana and Garden Grove. This&nbsp;edge city&nbsp;includes the&nbsp;Disneyland Resort, with two theme parks, multiple hotels, and&nbsp;its retail district; Disney is part of the larger&nbsp;Anaheim Resort&nbsp;district with numerous other hotels and retail complexes. The&nbsp;Platinum Triangle, a neo-urban&nbsp;redevelopment&nbsp;district surrounding&nbsp;Angel Stadium, which is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets and high-rises. Further east, Anaheim Canyon is an industrial district north of the&nbsp;Riverside Freeway&nbsp;and east of the&nbsp;Orange Freeway. The city's eastern third consists of&nbsp;Anaheim Hills, a community built to a master plan, and open land east of the&nbsp;Route 241&nbsp;tollway.

Anaheim

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Contra Costa County

Huntington Beach is a California city southeast of Los Angeles. It's known for surf beaches, such as Huntington City Beach, with its long Huntington Beach Pier. The International Surfing Museum displays longboards and other memorabilia. Sprawling Huntington Central Park features fields, gardens and lakes, plus an equestrian center. Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve's wetlands and dunes shelter hundreds of bird species.

Huntington Beach

The&nbsp;Gabriele&ntilde;o&nbsp;indigenous group inhabited Irvine about 2,000 years ago.&nbsp;Gaspar de Portol&agrave;, a Spanish explorer, came to the area in 1769, which led to the establishment of forts,&nbsp;missions&nbsp;and cattle herds. The&nbsp;King of Spain&nbsp;parceled out land for missions and private use.
After Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican government secularized the missions and assumed control of the lands. It began distributing the land to Mexican citizens who applied for grants. Three large&nbsp;Spanish/Mexican grants&nbsp;made up the land that later became the Irvine Ranch:&nbsp;Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana,&nbsp;Rancho San Joaquin&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rancho Lomas de Santiago.
&nbsp; Camp Bonita at Irvine Ranch in 1937 In 1864,&nbsp;Jose Andres Sepulveda, owner of Rancho San Joaquin sold 50,000 acres (200&nbsp;km2) to Benjamin and Thomas Flint,&nbsp;Llewellyn Bixby&nbsp;and&nbsp;James Irvine&nbsp;for $18,000 to resolve debts due to the Great Drought. In 1866, Irvine, Flint and Bixby acquired 47,000-acre (190&nbsp;km2) Rancho Lomas de Santiago for $7,000. After the&nbsp;Mexican-American war&nbsp;the land of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana fell prey to tangled titles. In 1868, the ranch was divided among four claimants as part of a lawsuit: Flint, Bixby and Irvine. The ranches were devoted to sheep grazing. However, in 1870,&nbsp;tenant farming&nbsp;was permitted.
In 1878,&nbsp;James Irvine&nbsp;acquired his partners' interests for $150,000. His 110,000 acres (450&nbsp;km2) stretched 23 miles (37&nbsp;km) from the Pacific Ocean to the&nbsp;Santa Ana River. James Irvine died in 1886. The ranch was inherited by his son,&nbsp;James Irvine II, who incorporated it into&nbsp;The Irvine Company. James Irvine II shifted the ranch operations to field crops, olive and citrus crops.
In 1888, the Santa Fe Railroad extended its line to Fallbrook Junction, north of San Diego, and named a station along the way after James Irvine. The town that formed around this station was named Myford, after Irvine's son, because a post office in Calaveras County already bore the family name. The town was renamed Irvine in 1914.
&nbsp; Suburban development in Irvine Ranch in 1975 &nbsp; The developing urban core in the city of Irvine in 2010 By 1918, 60,000 acres (240&nbsp;km2) of&nbsp;lima beans&nbsp;were grown on the Irvine Ranch. Two&nbsp;Marine Corps&nbsp;facilities,&nbsp;MCAS El Toro&nbsp;and&nbsp;MCAS Tustin, were built during World War II on ranch land sold to the government.
James Irvine II, died in 1947 at the age of 80. His son, Myford, assumed the presidency of The Irvine Company. He began opening small sections of the Irvine Ranch to urban development.
The Irvine Ranch played host to the&nbsp;Boy Scouts of America's&nbsp;1953 National Scout Jamboree.&nbsp;Jamboree Road, a major street which now stretches from Newport Beach to the city of Orange, was named in honor of this event.&nbsp;David Sills, then a young Boy Scout from&nbsp;Peoria, Illinois, was among the attendees at the 1953 Jamboree. Sills came back to Irvine as an adult and went on to serve four terms as the city's mayor.
Myford Irvine died in 1959. The same year, the University of California asked The Irvine Company for 1,000 acres (4 km2) for a new university campus. The Irvine Company sold the requested land for $1 and later the state purchased an additional 500 acres (2.0 km2).
William Pereira, the university's consulting architect, and The Irvine Company planners drew up master plans for a city of 50,000 people surrounding the new university. The plan called for industrial, residential and recreational areas, commercial centers and greenbelts. The new community was to be named Irvine; the old agricultural town of Irvine, where the railroad station and post office were located, was renamed East Irvine. The first phases of the villages of Turtle Rock, University Park, Westpark (then called Culverdale), El Camino Real, and Walnut were completed by 1970.
On December 28, 1971, the residents of these communities voted to incorporate a substantially larger city than the one envisioned by the Pereira plan. By January 1999, Irvine had a population of 134,000 and a total area of 43 square miles (111 km2).
In the 1970s, the mayor was&nbsp;Bill Vardoulis.
After the&nbsp;Fall of Saigon&nbsp;in 1975, a large influx of&nbsp;Vietnamese&nbsp;refugees&nbsp;settled in nearby&nbsp;Fountain Valley, especially in the late 1970s and throughout the 80s, forming a large percentage of&nbsp;Asian Americans&nbsp;in the city.
In late 2003, after a ten-year-long legal battle, Irvine annexed the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. This added 7.3 square miles (19 km2) of land to the city and blocked an initiative championed by Newport Beach residents to replace John Wayne Airport with a new airport at El Toro. Most of this land has become part of the Orange County Great Park.

Irvine

Long Beach is a coastal city and port in Southern California. Moored in its Queensway Bay, RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner and museum ship. The waterfront Aquarium of the Pacific features touch tanks and a shark lagoon. Modern and contemporary works are on display at the Museum of Latin American Art. Rancho Los Cerritos is a 19th-century adobe home and museum set in expansive gardens.

Long Beach

Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the U.S. state of California. With an estimated population of nearly four million people, it is the country's second most populous city (after New York City) and the third most populous city in North America (after Mexico City and New York City). Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolis.
Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, with mountains as high as 10,000 feet (3,000 m), and deserts. The city, which covers about 469 square miles (1,210 km2), is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States. The Los Angeles metropolitan area (MSA) is home to 13.1 million people, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in the nation after New York. Greater Los Angeles includes metro Los Angeles as well as the Inland Empire and Ventura County. It is the second most populous U.S. combined statistical area, also after New York, with a 2015 estimate of 18.7 million people.
Home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodr&iacute;guez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542. The city was founded on September 4, 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican&ndash;American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and thus became part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850, five months before California achieved statehood. The discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California.
Los Angeles has a diverse economy and hosts businesses in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. It also has the busiest container port in the entire Americas. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index and 9th in the Global Economic Power Index. The Los Angeles metropolitan area also has a gross metropolitan product of $1.0 trillion (as of 2017), making it the third-largest city by GDP in the world, after the Tokyo and New York City metropolitan areas. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics.

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