Valley View Circle

Valley View Circle covers 512.6 acres and holds 1,714 addresses on 1,181 parcels, at a median lot of 0.167 acres. It carries the widest mix of housing in the city: 1,127 parcels marked a single family residence by the assessor code, 289 addresses flagged manufactured, 35.3 acres zoned Mobile Home Park, 13 parcels zoned Residential Multiple-Family 20, and 36.4 acres of Commercial General with 17 acres of light manufacturing beside it. Seventy-seven named streets carry 14.72 miles of centerline, 96 segments of it private. The city flags 623 addresses as being in a homeowners association, and 4.34 miles of earthen trail run inside the boundary.

Oil is under all of it. The state field boundary layer places 234.5 acres of this polygon inside the abandoned Yorba Linda field, 198.4 acres inside Brea-Olinda and 79.7 acres inside East Coyote, and the city flags every one of the 1,714 addresses as sitting over an oil and gas field administrative boundary. Thirty-two plugged wells remain on the state record inside the boundary. The 2025 fire hazard severity layer rates 239.6 acres Very High, and the city flags 90 addresses as carrying a fuel modification requirement. Heritage Oak Elementary, a private school, stands inside the boundary on 3.8 acres at 16971 Imperial Highway.

The explorers got the best streets. Camino Cabrillo, Camino Ayala, Camino Cermenon and Camino Galvez take Spanish navigators and officials, Vista Vizcaino, Vista Moraga and Vista Mendoza carry on the list, and Drake Street, Fremont Lane, Carson Way and Bidwell Drive bring in the English and American men who followed them. It is an unusually deliberate set for a neighborhood laid out across old grove land at the western edge of Yorba Linda.

Two oil fields meet under this community. The state's Brea-Olinda field covers 198 acres of it and the Yorba Linda field another 234, with 32 plugged wells inside the boundary and Olinda Fee Four the largest lease among them. That first name is the older story: Edward Doheny moved onto the property in February 1897 and drilled the first well in the Olinda field about 700 feet down, and it came in at about fifty barrels a day. By October 1898 he and the Santa Fe had drilled ten wells there, none of them deeper than 900 feet, and the boom town of Olinda grew up over the surrounding hills.