Eagle Hills

Eagle Hills runs 107.4 acres in the hills of northeast Brea, holding 325 addresses across 4.26 miles of street. Nearly every one of its twenty-two street names is a wildflower or a meadow plant: Morning Glory, Thistle, Shamrock, Primrose, Goldenrod, Sunflower, Larkspur, Starflower, Bluegrass, Foxglove, Bluebell, Sorrel, Wintergreen, Hawthorne and Flower Hill among them. The parcel layer counts 340 parcels, 330 of them residential, on lots running to a median of 0.186 acres with structures to a median of 2,748 square feet and four bedrooms.

Two sculptures stand inside the boundary, Daniel Gluck's The Eagle and Harold Pastorius's The Windmill, and the community takes its name from the first of them. The tree inventory records 185 street trees. The fire hazard picture is graded rather than uniform, with 25.5 acres in the Very High class, 21.3 in High, 16.5 in Moderate and 13.5 outside the wildland classification. Eagle Hills is in Brea Olinda Unified, with Olinda Elementary 0.31 miles away holding 649 students, Brea Country Hills Elementary 0.65 miles with 498, and Brea Olinda High 1.23 miles with 1,676.

Walter Gayner built Eagle Hills between 1978 and 1983. The city records 325 homes on 107 acres, most of them going up between 1978 and 1981, with a typical size around 2,748 square feet on lots of about a fifth of an acre, which made them large houses for their moment. The neighborhood is known now for a Christmas light display that residents run across the whole tract each December.

The streets are a wildflower list. Bluebell, Larkspur, Primrose, Goldenrod, Morning Glory, Starflower, Sunflower, Foxglove, Wintergreen, Thistle, Sorrel, Shamrock and Bluegrass run through the tract, with Flower Hill Street as the spine, and Hawthorne and Snowfield filling in the corners. Walden Road is the outlier and the best of them, since Walden is Thoreau's pond, which is a literary joke to plant in a hill tract built on an oil lease.