Editing Tustin, California (section)

==History==
[[File:Tustin-1890.jpg|thumb|left|Tustin in 1890]]

Presently known as Red Hill, it was previously called the Katuktu hill by the indigenous while the Spanish also came up with the name "Cerrito de las ranas" which translates to little hill of frogs due to the quantity of frogs inhabiting the area.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-28 |title=Tustin's Red Hill - Tustin Area Historical Society |url=https://tustinhistory.com/collections/tustins-red-hill/#:~:text=Tustin%20is%20situated%20on%20the,Rancho%20Santiago%20de%20Santa%20Ana. |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=tustinhistory.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

On November 1, 1776, [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] became the area's first permanent European settlement in [[Alta California]], [[New Spain]].

In 1801, the [[Spanish Empire]] granted {{convert|62500|acre|km2}} to [[José Antonio Yorba]], which he named Rancho San Antonio. Yorba's great rancho included the lands where the cities and communities of [[Olive, California|Olive]], [[Orange, California|Orange]], [[Villa Park, California|Villa Park]], [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]], Tustin, [[Costa Mesa]] and [[Newport Beach]] stand today. Smaller ranchos evolved from this large rancho including the [[Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana]].

After the [[Mexican–American War]], [[Alta California]] became part of the United States and American settlers arrived in this area. Columbus Tustin, a carriage maker from Northern California, founded the city in 1868 on {{Convert|1,300|acre|km2}} of land from the former [[Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana]]. The city was incorporated in 1927 with a population of about 900. The townsite was bordered by Camino Real on the south, Newport Avenue on the east, 1st Street on the north, and Route 43, now known as the [[Costa Mesa Freeway]], on the west.

=== 20th century ===
During [[World War II]], a [[United States Navy|Navy]] anti-submarine [[airship]] base (later to become a [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] helicopter station) was established on unincorporated land south of the city; the two dirigible hangars are among the largest wooden structures ever built and are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and [[List of historic civil engineering landmarks|ASCE List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks]]. The north hangar burned down in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Medina |first=Eduardo |date=November 7, 2023 |title=Fire Destroys World War II-Era Blimp Hangar in California |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/us/fire-blimp-hangar-california.html}}</ref>

Suburban growth after the war resulted in increased population, annexation of nearby unincorporated land, including the former [[Marine Corps Air Station Tustin|Marine Corps Air Station]], and development of orchards and farmland into housing tracts and shopping centers. 

In 1996, two white supremacists, [[Gunner Lindberg]] and Domenic M. Christopher, stabbed a 24-year-old Vietnamese American to death on the high school tennis courts.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2010-07-29 |title=OC Hate Crime Killer Headed For Lethal Injection - Orange County News - Navel Gazing |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729111717/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/breaking-news/oc-hate-crime-killer-headed-fo/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Anton |first=Mike |date=2008-08-30 |title=Death penalty upheld in O.C. hate killing |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-30-me-death30-story.html |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2008, Lindberg became the first person in Orange County to be sentenced to death for a hate crime.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />