La Tract

La Tract covers 118.4 acres and the city's address layer records 475 addresses inside the boundary across 466 parcels, on 4.05 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.146 acres. Sixteen streets serve it and twelve begin with La: La Canada, La Carta, La Casa, La Castana, La Corona, La Costa, La Fiesta, La Habra, La Mesa, La Mirada, La Mona and La Palma, with Holder, San Marino, San Rafael and Valley View around them.

Just under ten acres of the Silverado Trail fall inside the boundary, part of the 21.8 acre pathway the city carries on its park record, and half a mile of bikeway runs with it. The city zones 84.5 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots and another 9.9 as Open Space. Mail carries the 90620 zip code, and the neighborhood feeds Raymond Temple Elementary, Walker Junior High and John F. Kennedy High.

This is the feminine drawer of Buena Park's Spanish filing system. La Casa is the house, La Corona the crown, La Costa the coast, La Mesa the table, La Fiesta the feast, La Carta the letter, La Castana the chestnut, La Canada a wooded ravine and La Palma the palm. Two of the streets are not words at all but neighbors: La Habra and La Mirada are the cities immediately north and northwest, so a driver on those blocks is pointed at the places they are named for.

About 475 homes sit on 118 acres here between Holder and Valley View, on lots near a seventh of an acre, and they went up in a single push: the county assessor dates 453 of the 455 homes it can date to the 1950s, one to the 1960s and one to the 1970s. The same hand named the surrounding grids by article, el to the west, los and san and santa around them, and via for the ways. It is a system rather than a mood, and it belongs to the decade when Buena Park went from farmland to suburb.