Overview
About Shadow Run
Shadow Run covers 92.1 acres and the county records 257 parcels and 244 site addresses inside the boundary, at a median distinct legal lot of 6,293 square feet. Sixteen named streets run 2.5 miles within it, among them Salvation Ln, Santiago Springs Dr, Rene Dr, Joane Way, Doreen Way, Occidental St and Pomona St.
The zoning layer gives 30.9 acres to single family residence and 10 acres to planned shopping center, and still carries 8.6 acres as general agricultural with 7.9 acres of open space land. The city park and open space layers place no facility inside the boundary and nothing here sits on the city historic register. Santa Ana Unified covers all of the ground, with Gerald P. Carr Intermediate and Carl Harvey Elementary both 0.14 miles away.
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How Shadow Run was built
The Santa Ana Freeway, built up out of the old Firestone Boulevard route to Los Angeles, opened in 1953 and put the west side within an easy commute of downtown, and Shadow Run itself went up in the wave that followed. The typical house here dates to 1963, and most of the neighborhood's ninety two acres were built out through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Whoever laid out the tract had college on the mind. Berkeley, Occidental, Pomona and Stanford all run through the neighborhood, with Saint Andrew Place running alongside them.
A slice of the neighborhood's zoning still reads general agricultural and open space, a holdover from the farm and flood ground that framed the tract even after the houses went in, and a shopping center went up along Bristol Street to serve the families who filled the new streets. The middle school a couple of minutes from the tract carries a name worth knowing. Gerald P. Carr grew up in Santa Ana and graduated from Santa Ana High School in 1950, then commanded Skylab 4, the third and last crewed mission to the orbital workshop, from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974, a flight of 84 days. In 1974 the school then called Ralph C. Smedley Junior High was renamed Gerald P. Carr Intermediate for him, and its teams have been the Astros ever since.
By the Numbers
Shadow Run by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Shadow Run lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Shadow Run
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; the campuses below are the nearest in the district, with enrollment from the 2024-25 federal count. Gerald P. Carr Intermediate is the nearest of them at 0.14 miles.
06-08 · 886 students
KG-05 · 268 students
KG-05 · 367 students
09-12 · 1,908 students
KG-05 · 320 students
KG-05 · 443 students
09-12 · 283 students
KG-05 · 457 students
KG-05 · 348 students
FAQs
Common questions about Shadow Run
How big is Shadow Run?
The City of Santa Ana draws it at 92.1 acres, with 257 parcels and 244 site addresses on the county record. Sixteen named streets run 2.5 miles inside the boundary.
When was Shadow Run built?
In three waves. The county carries a year built on 235 parcels here: 110 in the 1960s, 87 in the 1970s and 29 in the 1950s. The middle year is 1963 and the range runs from 1901 to 1987.
Which is the largest recorded map inside the boundary?
Tract 9046, recorded on 18 August 1976, engineered by Hall and Foreman and surveyed by George D. Shambeck. It covers 18.4 percent of the boundary.
Are there parks inside the boundary?
No. The city park and open space layers place no facility inside Shadow Run, and a park outside the boundary is not counted as belonging to it.
What are the unusual street names here?
Salvation Lane and Santiago Springs Drive are both inside the boundary on the city centerline layer, alongside Rene Drive, Joane Way and Doreen Way.