Country Road

Country Road holds 345 addresses on 31.7 acres in central Brea, spread across twenty-three streets almost all of them short courts. East Mountain Court carries 77 homes and the rest run between four and twenty-six each: Wagon Wheel, Meadow, Shady, Panorama, Butte, Buckboard, Timberline, Dale, Cascade, Scenic, Cactus, Prairie, Rustic, Clover, Spring, Glen, Surry, Glade, Sage, Calico, Vista and Knoll. The parcel layer counts 387 parcels, 386 of them residential, on lots running to a median of 0.035 acres with structures to a median of 1,401 square feet and three bedrooms.

Those lots are the smallest in Brea alongside Corsican Villas, and the density they carry is what the general plan designates Medium Density Residential across 27.6 acres. The city's tree inventory records 153 street trees along the community's 1.97 miles of road, and none of the boundary falls in an elevated fire class. Country Road is in Brea Olinda Unified with three campuses within a mile: Brea Junior High is 0.22 miles away with 921 students, Falcon Academy of Science and Technology 0.33 miles with 544, and Brea Olinda High 0.96 miles with 1,676.

Ponderosa Homes built Country Road between 1972 and 1976, and the city records 386 homes on thirty-two acres, most of them going up between 1972 and 1977. The typical home measures about 1,401 square feet on a lot of roughly a thirtieth of an acre. The association runs a clubhouse with a kitchen and fireplace, two pools including one kept for adults, a spa and a wading pool.

The streets sell a ranch that was never here. Buckboard Court and Wagon Wheel Circle are wagon parts, Calico is a horse's coat, and Prairie, Sage, Cactus, Butte, Rustic, Timberline, Panorama and Scenic Way fill out a western catalog on a piece of ground whose actual history is sheep, walnuts, oranges and crude oil. The city's tree inventory counts 153 trees inside the boundary, most of them Italian cypress, which is the one thing here that does not pretend to be from Wyoming.