History
Founded in 1869, Santa Ana is the largest city and the county seat of Orange County, California, with over 340,000 people residing in it. Santa Ana is a part of the Los Angeles – Long Beach – Santa Ana metropolitan area. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles – Long Beach – Santa Ana metropolitan area is the second largest metropolitan area in the United States with almost thirteen million people. The city of Santa Ana lies about 10 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. It is located in Southern California on the Santa Ana River, ten miles away from the California coast and only forty minutes southeast of Los Angeles. The city of Santa Ana is accessible by the Santa Ana Freeway, Costa Mesa Freeway and the Garden Grove Freeway.

Today, the city of Santa Ana is also known for its enormously huge Mexican American population. Before, the city is considered one of the all-white cities, but now there is about 75% of the city that is Mexican-American and it has the highest percentage of Latin Americans compared to the other largest cities in the United States of America.

The city of Santa Ana provides to all sports enthusiasts an easy access to all of the professional sports offerings of nearby Anaheim, and Los Angeles. The sporting teams in the community of Santa Ana area are the National Basketball Association or NBA's Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers, the Women’s National Basketball Association or WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, the National Hockey League or NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks and LA Kings, the Arena Football League or AFL’s Los Angeles Avengers, the Major League Baseball or MLB's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Major League Soccer's Club Deportivo Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy.

The Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, California is the present metropolitan designation given to the Orange County Area and the city of Santa Ana by the White House Office of Management and Budget or OMB.

Santa Ana is the home of some top companies, including Ingram Micro, First American Corporation, and the original Glenn L. Martin aviation company, which later merged with the Lockheed Corporation. They form the Lockheed Martin to create the largest aircraft and weapons manufacturing corporation. Santa Ana is also home to the famous guitar manufacturer, Rickenbacker International Corporation. Many of these musical instruments like the bass guitars and electric guitars earned thier reputation in the hands of many rock and roll legends.

In 1869, the city of Santa Ana was founded by Kentuckian William H. Spurgeon. He bought 74 acres from the Yorba estate and began to lay out a 24-block village. Spurgeon set aside an entire city block for construction of an impressive stone courthouse with a tower that rose higher than any building in town. The courthouse still stands and has been restored. After the Southern Pacific Railroad was built in 1877, the city of Santa Ana began to boom. In 1886, nine years later, the Santa Ana became a city. Santa Ana grew industrially after the World War II. There was diverse manufacturing in the city, which was part of the large Anaheim–Santa Ana–Garden Grove metropolitan area.

In the 1980s, the civic leaders have been working to revitalize the city of Santa Ana and restore its image. Santa Ana has aggressively pursued redevelopment, luring major hotels, retailers and industry. One of the more visible results is the MainPlace shopping center downtown. The mall, which opened in 1987, has created 2,000 jobs and added considerably to the city's revenue. In 1889, it became the seat of the newly formed Orange County. Insurance companies are also major employers. In the late 20th century, Santa Ana was one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States of America. The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and the Mexican American Museum of Art are both found in the city of Santa Ana.

Today, many residents of the city of Santa Ana perceive their city as making a comeback. They take pride in stating that the city of Santa Ana is the only genuinely veritable urban area in Orange County, and they all enjoy Santa Ana’s cultural diversity.

There is a variety of famous cultural arts and entertainment venues that the city of Santa Ana can offer. It includes the following:

• The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park
• The Galaxy Theater
• The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art and Bowers Kidseum
• The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
• The Laguna Art Museum in nearby Laguna Beach
• The Newport Harbor Nautical Museum in nearby Newport Beach
• The Orange County Performing Arts Center in nearby Costa Mesa
• The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in nearby Yorba Linda

The community of Santa Ana also provides easy access to all of the arts and entertainment offerings of nearby Los Angeles. For fans of theme parks, nearby Anaheim is home to Disneyland, Disney's California, and Knott's Berry Farm.

Some of the hospitals or other medical centers presently in the city are:

• Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center Inc.
• Coastal Communities Hospital
• Western Medical Center

Colleges and Universities in Santa Ana:

• Southern California University for Prof Students
• Santa Ana College
• California Coast University
• Newbridge College
• Intercoast College
• Trinity Law and Graduate School

Libraries in Santa Ana and their addresses:
Orange County Public Library
1501 E. St. Andrew Place
Santa Ana, California 92705

Santa Ana Public Library
26, Civic Center Plaza
Santa Ana, CA 92701

You can experience Santa Ana’s warm southern California weather. It is what the city is famous for. Santa Ana’s climate is mild and this makes it an ideal location for any outdoor activities. Beach and water sports are one of the popular pastimes here, other activities like golfing and camping are popular as well. For those people near the mountains, it is best for skiing as well as snowboarding.

The winter season in here has an average low temperature of sixty degrees, and an average high temperature of seventy degrees Fahrenheit. The summer daytime in this community has an average temperature in the low eighty degrees Fahrenheit. Below fifteen inches per year is the average rainfall in the city of Santa Anna.

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