Welcome to Anaheim!
Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California, located 28 miles southeast of Los Angeles. As of 2006, the city population was
342,410, making it the tenth-largest city in California and 56th-largest in the United States. Anaheim is the second most populous city in Orange
County (behind Santa Ana) and second largest in terms of land area, and it is known for its theme parks, sports teams, and convention center.
Founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing
electronics, aircraft parts, and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland Resort, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which
opened in 1955, Angel Stadium, Honda Center, and Anaheim Convention Center, the largest convention center on the American West Coast and the
Anaheim Visitor Center is adjacent to the Convention Center. Its name is a blend of "Ana", after the nearby Santa Ana River, and "heim", a common
Upper German place name compound originally meaning "home".
Anaheim's city limits stretch from Los Alamitos in the West to the San Bernardino County and Riverside County lines in the East, and encompass a
diverse collection of neighborhoods and communities. Anaheim Hills is a master-planned community that resembles South Orange County more than the
county's northern cities. West Anaheim is notable for its more mature neighborhoods dating from the 1950s, which comprise part of the continuous
suburban sprawl extending from Los Angeles. The Anaheim Resort, a commercial district, includes Disneyland and the neighboring hotel and retail
complexes. The Platinum Triangle, a neo-urban redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium, will soon be populated with mixed-use streets and
high-rises. Finally, the Canyon is an industrial district north of the Riverside Freeway and east of the Orange Freeway.
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