Mount Tract

Mount Tract covers 43.3 acres and the city's address layer records 182 addresses inside the boundary across 182 parcels, one address to each lot, on 1.44 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.145 acres. Nine of the eleven street names are peaks: Mount Baldy, Mount Barnard, Mount Dana, Mount Lowe, Mount Palomar, Mount Ripley, Mount Shasta, Mount Waterman and Mount Whitney, with Holder Street and Shasta on the edges.

John Beat Park sits wholly inside the boundary, 2.9 acres at 6660 Mount Shasta Circle, and the city zones 30.8 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots with 2.6 acres of Open Space. Mount Tract is the only neighborhood in this guide that sits entirely inside Savanna School District for the elementary grades, and it feeds Orangeview Junior High and Western High in Anaheim Union for the upper grades.

Every street here is a mountain, and almost all of them are Californian. Mount Whitney is the highest peak in the lower forty eight states. Mount Shasta stands over the far north of the state. Mount Baldy is what everybody in Southern California calls San Antonio, the peak visible from the freeway on a clear winter morning. Mount Palomar carries the observatory, Mount Waterman sits in the San Gabriels above Los Angeles, Mount Lowe carries the memory of the railway that once climbed it, and Mount Dana and Mount Barnard are Sierra summits.

It is an unusually coherent scheme for a postwar neighborhood, and it points the imagination in a specific direction. On a clear day after rain the San Gabriels are visible from these blocks, which is presumably the whole idea. Around 182 homes sit on 43 acres between Holder and Shasta, on lots near a seventh of an acre.