Cameron Park

Cameron Park covers 11.6 acres, the smallest of the twenty eight Buena Park neighborhoods in this guide. The city's address layer records 107 addresses inside the boundary across 118 parcels, on 0.63 miles of street, and lots run to a median of 0.046 acres, which is the third smallest lot size of the neighborhoods in this guide.

All 11.6 acres are zoned Low Density Multifamily Residential, and four streets serve the neighborhood: Cameron, Humboldt, Mead and Muir. Mail carries the 90621 zip code and the neighborhood feeds Charles G. Emery Elementary, Gordon H. Beatty Middle and Sunny Hills High.

Cameron Park went up in 1975 as a townhome community of about 110 homes on roughly 11 acres, which makes it one of the denser addresses in a city built mostly of single story ranch houses. It sits off Humboldt Drive next to Smith-Murphy Park, with a pool, a spa and attached two car garages, and the homes are arranged so that most of them look onto green rather than onto asphalt. Four street names serve the whole community: Cameron, Humboldt, Mead and Muir.

Three of those four read as a nod to naturalists and explorers rather than to anyone local. Alexander von Humboldt and John Muir are the obvious pair, and Mead sits comfortably alongside them. It is a quieter scheme than the surrounding neighborhoods, where whole grids are given over to birds, flowers, presidents or generals, and it fits a project of the mid seventies rather than the mid fifties.