Malvern Creek

Malvern Creek runs 25.8 acres along the Malvern Avenue corridor with 270 addresses standing on just three parcels, and four of its five street names describe moving water: Creek Side Drive, Millstream Drive, Sandbar Drive and White Water Drive, with Windsong Way the fifth. Just under a mile of the street inside is private. The city zones 25.74 acres R-G Garden-Type Multiple Residential, the designation Fullerton uses for garden apartments and townhouses.

The general plan gives 23.89 acres Low-Medium Density Residential and the remaining 1.85 to road. Emery Park is at 1201 Sunny Ridge Drive on 8.23 acres, open since 1980, with picnic tables and a playground. Robert C. Fisler Elementary is 0.26 miles out with 892 students in grades K through 8, D. Russell Parks Junior High 0.95 miles at 854 and Sunny Hills High 0.64 miles at 2,337. The liquefaction zone covers 9.2 of the 25.8 acres.

Malvern Creek is a west Fullerton townhome community of 267 homes built around White Water Drive, and its owners association was created in 1978, which places the construction at the end of that decade. Whoever named the streets committed to a theme and stayed with it: Creek Side, Millstream, Sandbar, White Water and Windsong. The water is not imaginary. This side of town drains into Fullerton Creek, a tributary of Coyote Creek that runs about ten and a half miles from Fullerton Dam down to the San Gabriel River system.

When these homes were new, the landmark on Malvern Avenue was not a shopping center. Hughes Aircraft ran a plant from 1957 on former orange grove northeast of Malvern Avenue and Gilbert Street, building the air defense and air traffic control systems that replaced the country's SAGE network and went to governments overseas. At its peak the Ground Systems Group employed fifteen thousand people and took in more than a billion dollars a year. Its 293 acre campus was redeveloped between 2001 and 2004 into Amerige Heights, the housing and town center where people here now run their errands.