Fisher Park

Fisher Park covers 72.1 acres and the county records 225 parcels and 222 site addresses inside the boundary. The median distinct legal lot measures 9,600 square feet, or 0.22 acres, which is among the deepest of the Santa Ana neighborhoods. Eleven named streets run 2.24 miles within it, among them Memory Ln, River Ln, Jonquil Rd, Acacia Pl, Greenbrier St and Farmers Dr.

The zoning layer gives 52.8 acres to single family residence and 3.9 acres to open space land, and the general plan carries the whole residential part as low density residential. Fisher Park itself sits inside the boundary at 2.6 acres, and the city records a log cabin, a formal garden, a picnic area, a playground and permanent restrooms on it. Thirteen properties inside the boundary sit on the city historic register, among them the Dr. Sammy Lee House and the Harold T. Segerstrom House.

The park and the neighborhood are named for Jack Fisher, a Santa Ana man who came home from the First World War a local hero and then spent his working life as the staff cartoonist for the Santa Ana Register, drawing the cartoons that campaigned for the Newport Harbor bonds in 1926.

The neighborhood that grew up around the park came later. Most of it was built in the 1950s, when the California ranch house was at its height, on lots noticeably larger than the Santa Ana norm, and the county records a median year built of 1953 here. The log cabin in Jack Fisher Park has been the neighborhood's front room for decades, and the neighborhood association still holds its quarterly meetings in it.