Editing Stanton, California (section)

==History==
During the Spanish colonial period, northern Orange County along with much of the [[Los Angeles Basin|LA Basin]] had been granted to Manuel Nieto in 1784 under the [[Rancho Los Nietos]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1988 |title=Milestones in California History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25177242?searchText=ranchos+los+nietos&searchUri=/action/doBasicSearch?Query=ranchos+los+nietos&so=rel&ab_segments=0/basic_search_gsv2/control&refreqid=fastly-default:98b788250783a265bc984020ea528fd5&seq=1 |journal=California History |volume=67 |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/25177242 |issn=0162-2897}}</ref> After Nietos' death, his heirs partitioned the land into five smaller ranchos under Mexican governance.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County |url=http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/Spanish_and_Mexican_Ranchos.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726003947/http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/Spanish_and_Mexican_Ranchos.pdf#expand |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |access-date=May 14, 2025 |website=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The current boundaries of the city roughly lies over two of five descending ranchos of [[Rancho Los Alamitos]] and [[Rancho Los Coyotes]].<ref name=":0" /> 

On November 4, 1905, the Los Angeles Interurban Railway<ref>http://www.erha.org/pessa.htm</ref> started service on the ''[[Santa Ana Line]]''. It ran along an almost perfectly straight line between [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts]] and [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]. Access to transportation allowed the population of the rural area to grow. This area is now Stanton and West Anaheim.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

The original name recorded by the Railway was Benedict.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Brigandi |first=Phil |title=Orange County Place Names A to Z |date=June 1, 2006 |publisher=Sunbelt Publications |year=2006 |isbn=978-0932653796 |edition=1st |location=San Diego, California}}</ref> In 1911, the name was changed to Stanton after Philip A. Stanton, a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] assemblyman for [[Los Angeles]] from 1903 to 1909, who was recorded to have assisted the formation of the territory.<ref>Capace, Nancy (1999). ''Encyclopedia of California''. North American Book Dist LLC. Page 443. {{ISBN|9780403093182}}.</ref>

In 1908, the privately owned [[Pacific Electric Railway]] leased the Santa Ana Line and took over the service, extending its regional light-rail system. Passenger service to Santa Ana was discontinued in 1950, shortly after the railway was taken over by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency. Today, the easement still is owned by the [[Orange County Transportation Authority|Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)]]. It crosses the intersections of [[California State Route 39|Beach Boulevard]]/Pacific Street and Cerritos Avenue/Western Avenue.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

The first City of Stanton was incorporated in 1911 and was then the largest city in Orange County by area.<ref>See https://www.ocregister.com/2010/05/20/stanton-the-city-that-was-born-twice/</ref> The main motivation for incorporation was the City of Anaheim's plan to build a "sewage farm" to the west of their city. Former Speaker of the California State Assembly Phillip Ackley Stanton assisted in the incorporation and the city was named Stanton in his honor. In 1924, the residents voted to dis-incorporate to avoid the cost of building roads in the city.<ref name=":1" />

In the early 1950s, the area had experienced a post-war population boom and the neighboring cities rapidly annexed land. In May 1956, the citizens responded by re-incorporating into today's City of Stanton.{{cn|date=May 2025}}