Brush Canyon

Brush Canyon covers 228.8 acres in one piece and holds 506 addresses on 518 parcels, at a median lot of 0.22 acres. The city's zoning layer gives 121.2 acres to Residential Urban and 37.2 acres to Planned Development, with 22.2 acres in Public and Semi-Public use and 21.4 acres of open space, and the assessor land use code marks 505 parcels here residential. Twenty-nine named streets run 4.9 miles inside the boundary, every centerline segment of them recorded public. Brush Canyon Park sits on 6.4 acres at 28282 Brush Canyon Drive, and the city's facility record lists a playground, restrooms, a tennis court, a basketball court, a baseball field, a pickleball court, barbecues and sheltered picnic areas, all of it lighted. Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified serves the whole polygon through Bryant Ranch Elementary, Travis Ranch and Yorba Linda High.

The street names run in two families that meet in the middle of the tract. Picasso Drive, Van Gogh Way, Delacroix Way, Carot Court and Marquet Court sit beside Bayberry, Blackberry, Candleberry, Elderberry, Hollyberry, Loganberry and Mulberry. The canyon setting is priced into the city's own hazard record: all 506 addresses are flagged high fire severity and 132 of them carry a fuel modification requirement, while the 2025 fire hazard severity layer rates 159.9 acres Very High. An Alquist-Priolo earthquake fault zone crosses 37.3 acres and the state landslide layer covers 34.6 acres. The flood layer keeps 225.2 acres in zone X and puts 3.6 acres in zone A.

The ground belonged to Bernardo Yorba, who received the 13,328 acre Rancho Canon de Santa Ana from Mexican governor Jose Figueroa in 1834 and grazed it from an adobe below these hills. The town came much later: Jacob Stern bought the land from the Yorba family in 1907 and sold it on to the Janss Investment Company, which named the subdivision Yorba Linda, joining the ranching family's name to linda, Spanish for pretty. The first lemon and orange groves were planted in 1910 and the Yorba Linda Citrus Association formed in 1912.

One corner of the map is a surprise: Delacroix Way, Picasso Drive, Van Gogh Way, Carot Court and Marquet Court, for the painters Eugene Delacroix, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Corot and Albert Marquet. Brush Canyon Park covers 6.4 acres inside the boundary, and 506 homes sit on 228 acres at a median lot a little over a fifth of an acre.