Overview
About Centennial Park
Centennial Park covers 169.7 acres and the county records 779 parcels and 774 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,166 square feet. Twenty six named streets run 7.15 miles within it, among them Everglade St, Glenarbor St, Greenville St, Harvard St, Castor St and Golden West Ave.
The zoning layer gives 107.6 acres to single family residence, 7.1 acres to community commercial and 4.1 acres to two family residence, and the general plan carries 113.9 acres as low density residential. The city park and open space layers place no facility inside the boundary. Santa Ana Unified covers all of it, with Diamond Elementary 0.05 miles away, Valley High 0.1 miles away and Hector G. Godinez High 0.12 miles away.
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How Centennial Park was built
The neighborhood is named for the park at Edinger Avenue and Fairview Street, 69.5 acres of city ground with a lake, ball fields, a skate park and the Dan Young Soccer Complex. What lies under the picnic tables is stranger than the park suggests. On June 6, 1941 the federal government bought the land at the southwest corner of Edinger and Fairview from William F. Croddy, a rancher who chaired the Santa Ana Planning Commission, and his wife Marine. What went up there was built to look like a farm and was not one. Twenty five antennas stood over roughly 110 acres, and the site worked as a monitoring station, listening to Japanese and German signals during the war and Soviet ones after it. When the government finally released the property, the ground was divided among Centennial Park, a Santa Ana College annex and the Heritage Museum of Orange County.
Most of the houses went up in the 1950s, with a second run in the early 1960s, on the flat ground between Edinger, Fairview and Harvard, while Santa Ana's population doubled from about 45,500 in 1950 to just over 100,000 in 1960.
By the Numbers
Centennial Park by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Centennial Park lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Centennial Park
Santa Ana Unified covers the whole boundary and assigns campuses through its own address locator rather than a published boundary map. No campus sits inside the boundary, though three are within a quarter mile of it. Enrollment below is the 2024-25 federal count.
KG-05 · 367 students
09-12 · 1,908 students
09-12 · 1,687 students
06-08 · 886 students
KG-05 · 268 students
KG-05 · 493 students
KG-05 · 320 students
KG-08 · 1,074 students
09-12 · 283 students
FAQs
Common questions about Centennial Park
How big is Centennial Park?
The City of Santa Ana draws it at 169.7 acres, with 779 parcels and 774 site addresses on the county record. Twenty six named streets run 7.15 miles inside the boundary.
When were the homes in Centennial Park built?
The county carries a year built on 767 parcels here. The middle of them is 1958, with 499 dated to the 1950s and 132 to the 1960s, and the range runs from 1906 to 1991.
Who laid out Centennial Park?
W. W. Hoy surveyed the first three maps, Tract 506 in 1923, Tract 507 or Santa Ana Gardens in 1924 and Tract 1024 in 1938. The postwar maps were surveyed by John M. Hoy, Clayton P. Staples, Herbert W. Phillips and R. L. Stuckey between 1955 and 1961.
Are there parks inside the boundary?
No. Despite the name, the city park and open space layers place no facility inside the Centennial Park neighborhood boundary. Centennial Park itself lies outside it.
Which schools are closest?
Diamond Elementary at 0.05 miles, Valley High at 0.1 miles, Hector G. Godinez High at 0.12 miles and Gerald P. Carr Intermediate at 0.19 miles. Santa Ana Unified assigns campuses through its own address locator.