Heil Park Condominiums

Heil Park Condominiums holds 23 separately assessed homes on 0.96 acres fronting Heil Avenue, the smallest boundary and the fewest homes of the 28 Fountain Valley communities on this site. The assessor records two bedrooms on 19 of the homes and three on the other four, with a median building area of 976 square feet.

The general plan designates the whole site High Density Residential, which allows 15 to 30 homes to the acre, and 23 homes on 0.96 acres sits inside that range. FEMA places all of it in Zone X as an area with reduced flood risk due to levee. Garden Grove Unified files this land in study area 104A of its own school locator, which feeds Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate and Los Amigos High.

Twenty three homes on a single acre fronting Heil Avenue, built in 1993, mostly two bedrooms. This is about as small as a mapped community gets in Fountain Valley, and the date explains why: by 1993 the city had been built out for more than a decade, and what was left to build on was a lot at a time.

Heil Avenue itself carries the name of one of the farming families who held this flat before the tracts. So do most of the roads a resident here drives every day, and so do the schools. Roch Courreges came from Basque landowners, left for California alone at sixteen in 1867, tried the gold country and failed, then started a sheep ranch in 1878 on eighty acres known as The Bluffs, marrying Magdalena Mogart in 1880 and turning the sheep run into a farm. The tank house his family built in 1898 is the oldest structure in the city and was moved from Talbert Avenue to Heritage Park in one piece.