Tree Tract

Tree Tract covers 155.1 acres and the city's address layer records 761 addresses inside the boundary across 750 parcels, on 6.1 miles of street with lots running to a median of 0.143 acres. Thirty one street names run inside and most are trees: Cedar, Cherry, Chestnut, Dracaena, Elm, Guava, Hazelnut, Hemlock, Hickory, Holly, Hollyoak, Joshua, Larch, Lemon, Lime, Linden, Locust, Mahogany, Mango, Maple, Mulberry, Pepper, Pinyon, Tamarack and Teakwood, with Bel Air, Crescent, Dale, Greenleaf, Kendor and Stanton making up the rest.

The city zones 115.0 acres for 6,000 square foot one family residential lots and one Orange County Transportation Authority bus stop sits inside the boundary. Tree Tract straddles two elementary districts on the city's own layer, 123.8 acres in Centralia and 31.2 in Magnolia. It feeds Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary and Savanna High, with the middle grades split between Dale Junior High over most of the boundary and Brookhurst Junior High over the rest.

Tree Tract went up in two eras a generation apart. Seven maps were filed between March 1955 and May 1957, carrying 580 of the lots the city records inside this boundary, and four more filed between 1983 and October 1984 added 144 on the ground that was left. The county assessor matches the split almost exactly: 588 homes dated to the 1950s and 149 to the 1980s, so most of the neighborhood is postwar and the rest arrived three decades later.

One of the sixteen sites on the City of Buena Park's own historic register stands inside this boundary, the George Trapp House at 8352 Crescent Avenue, built by the pioneer farmer George Trapp. The city records that the house was modified in the early 1980s but that the original rock porch is still there. The streets that went in around it were named for trees, twenty five of the thirty one, running from mountain species like Joshua, Pinyon and Tamarack to an orchard of Lemon, Lime, Cherry, Guava, Mango and Mulberry.