Editing Yorba Linda, California (section)

== History ==
===Etymology===
The name Yorba Linda is made up of two parts: Yorba, after Don [[Bernardo Yorba]], a [[Californio]] ranchero who historically owned the area, and ''linda'', Spanish for beautiful. The name was created in 1908 by the [[Janss Investment Company]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://yorbalindahistory.org/timeline.html|title=Timeline|access-date=July 24, 2020|website=yorba linda history|quote=1908 The Janss Investment Company bought from Jacob Stern part of the land that made up the Rancho Cañon de Santa Ana. They named the area “Yorba Linda” and began selling it by the acre in 1909.}}</ref>

=== Indigenous ===
The area is the home of the [[Tongva people|Tongva]], [[Luiseño]], and [[Juaneño]] tribal nations, who were there "as early as 4,000 years ago."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ylpl.org/history/|title=Yorba Linda History|website=Yorba Linda Public Library|access-date=June 19, 2019}}</ref> The Tongva defined their world as [[Tovaangar]], a nation which "extended from Palos Verdes to San Bernardino, from Saddleback Mountain to the San Fernando Valley" and included the entire territory of present-day Yorba Linda. Spanish colonization between 1769 and 1840 brought "disease, invasive species, and livestock" into the area, which "upended the ecological balance of the region and forced the Tongva to resettle around three missions."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/|title=Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past|last1=Greene|first1=Sean|last2=Curwen|first2=Thomas|date=May 9, 2019|newspaper=LA Times|access-date=June 19, 2019}}</ref> The village of [[Hutuknga]] was located in the area of Yorba Linda.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Koerper |first1=Henry |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745176510 |title=Catalysts to complexity : late Holocene societies of the California coast |last2=Mason |first2=Roger |last3=Peterson |first3=Mark |date=2002 |publisher=Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |others=Jon Erlandson, Terry L. Jones, Jeanne E. Arnold, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA |isbn=978-1-938770-67-8 |location=Los Angeles |pages=64–66, 79 |oclc=745176510}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Akins |first=Damon B. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1176314767 |title=We are the land : a history of Native California |date=2021 |others=William J., Jr. Bauer |isbn=978-0-520-28049-6 |location=Oakland, California |pages=263 |oclc=1176314767}}</ref>

=== Early years ===
In 1810, the Spanish crown granted [[José Antonio Yorba]] 63,414 acres of land, which "spread across much of modern-day Orange County." In 1834, following Mexico's independence from Spain, Yorba's most successful son, [[Bernardo Yorba]] (after whom the city would later be named), was granted the {{convert|13328|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana]] by Mexican governor [[José Figueroa]]. Most of this original land was retained after the [[Mexican–American War]] in 1848 by descendants of the Yorba family. A portion of the city's land is still owned and developed by descendants of [[Samuel Kraemer]], who acquired it through his marriage to Angelina Yorba, the great-granddaughter of Bernardo Yorba. The site of the [[Yorba Hacienda|Bernardo Yorba Hacienda]], referred to as the Don Bernardo Yorba Ranch House Site, is listed as a [[California Historical Landmark]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21445 |title=Orange |work=Parks.ca.gov |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref>

Near that same site sits the second oldest private cemetery in the county, the historic [[Yorba Cemetery]].<ref name="ocparks.com">{{cite web |author=County of Orange |url=http://www.ocparks.com/yorbacemetery/ |title=Orange County California |publisher=OC Parks |access-date=August 3, 2010 |archive-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726024757/http://www.ocparks.com/yorbacemetery/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The land was given to the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles]] by Bernardo Yorba<ref name="ocparks.com" /> in 1858<ref name="timeline">{{cite web| title = Timeline |website=Yorba Linda History | publisher = Yorba Linda Public Library |url=http://www.yorbalindahistory.org/timeline| access-date = April 4, 2010}}</ref> since Orange County was not established out of [[Los Angeles County]] as a separate county until 1889.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/AR-Few-Important-Dates.pdf |title=Important Dates |access-date=August 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004044/http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Clerk-Recorder/Docs/Archives/AR-Few-Important-Dates.pdf |archive-date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref> The cemetery closed in 1939 and was subsequently vandalized; however, in the 1960s, the Orange County Board of Supervisors took possession of the property to repair the damage, and tours are now available one day per month.<ref name="ocparks.com" />

=== Agricultural era ===
[[File:Yorba Linda School, circa 1918.jpg|thumb|Yorba Linda School, built 1913. Photo circa 1918.]]
[[File:Nixonhouse.jpg|thumb|The [[birthplace of Richard Nixon]]]]

A section of the land was sold in 1907 by the Yorba family to Fullerton businessman Jacob Stern, who used the land for barley fields and sheep grazing. Stern subsequently sold the tract to the [[Janss Investment Company]], which first called the area Yorba Linda,<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.yorba-linda.ca.us/~ci26/about-us/city-facts/127 |title=History of Yorba Linda |website=City of Yorba Linda |access-date=August 3, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322232350/http://ci.yorba-linda.ca.us/~ci26/about-us/city-facts/127 |archive-date=March 22, 2010 }}</ref> and proceeded to subdivide the land and sell it for agriculture and manufacturing. In 1910, the agricultural aspect of that endeavor materialized, and the first of many [[lemon]] and [[orange (fruit)|orange]] [[grove (nature)|groves]] were planted: at the time, the population was still less than 50.<ref name="timeline" /> A year later, [[The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company]] began serving Yorba Linda, and the first [[school]] was constructed.<ref name="timeline" />

In 1912, several things happened in Yorba Linda: it received its first [[post office]]; the Yorba Linda Citrus Association was founded; the [[Southern California Edison Company]] began providing [[electricity]]; and the first [[church (building)|church]] was constructed.<ref name="timeline" /> The area that would later become downtown was also connected to Los Angeles by the [[Pacific Electric Railway]] in 1912, primarily for citrus transport.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

In 1913, [[Richard Nixon]] was born in Yorba Linda, the [[chamber of commerce]] was set up, a library opened as part of the school, and [[avocado]] trees were first planted.<ref name="timeline" /> A year later, a separate district was established for the library system.<ref name="timeline" />

In 1915, the [[Susanna Bixby Bryant]] Ranch house was constructed.<ref name="timeline" /> It is a museum that is open to the public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/sbb.php |title=Susanna Bixby Bryant Ranch House and Museum |website=Yorba Linda Public Library |access-date=August 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100718060133/http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/sbb.php |archive-date=July 18, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1917, the first street was paved, Yorba Linda Boulevard.<ref name="timeline" /> The ''Yorba Linda Star'' began publication also.<ref name="ylstar">{{cite web|url=http://yorbalindahistory.org/star/ |title=Yorba Linda Star Index |website=Yorba Linda History |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref> It has since become an online section of the [[OC Register]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ocregister.com/sections/city-pages/anaheimhills-placentia-yorbalinda/yorbalinda/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112101538/http://www.ocregister.com/sections/city-pages/anaheimhills-placentia-yorbalinda/yorbalinda/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 12, 2009|title=Anaheim Hills, Placentia, Yorba Linda – The Orange County Register|access-date=February 3, 2016}}</ref> A printed version of the Star is available at various city buildings free of charge and is delivered to every household in Yorba Linda each Thursday. Past articles are on [[microfilm]] at the Yorba Linda Public Library.<ref name="ylstar" />

The population exceeded 300 for the first time prior to 1920.<ref name="timeline" /> In 1929, the citrus association's [[packing house]] burned down, as it was made of wood.<ref name="timeline" /> It reopened the next year.<ref name="timeline" /> During this period, the eastern two-thirds of Yorba Linda (east of the Yorba Linda Country Club) remained part of cattle and agricultural ranches controlled by pioneer families such as the Yorba, de los Reyes, Kraemer, Travis, Dominguez, Friend, and Bryant ranches.

From 1943 to 1958, "approximately seventy thousand [[Bracero program|braceros]] were transported to Orange County," used by employers to service citrus crops. Braceros lived in temporary housing projects referred to as "camps," which were policed by local deputies throughout the county.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900–1950|last=Gonzalez|first=Gilbert|publisher=University of Illinois Press|year=1994|isbn=978-0-252-06388-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/laborcommunityme0000gonz/page/165 165–166]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/laborcommunityme0000gonz/page/165}}</ref> The townspeople of Yorba Linda "refused to allow the housing of braceros in their city, forcing the nearby town of [[Placentia, California|Placentia]] to board them within the segregated Mexican ''colonia''."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?|last=Gonzalez|first=Gilbert|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59451-151-6}}</ref>

=== Population growth ===
[[File:Packing house, Yorba Linda, Nov. 1961.jpg|thumb|Sunkist citrus packing house, 1961]]
[[File:Development, Yorba Linda area, Oct. 1966.jpg|thumb|This housing development in 1966 was the result of a population increase in the 1960s, from 1,198 people in 1960 to 11,856 in 1970.]]

The small town had grown significantly by the 1960s, with more than 1,000 residents by the [[1960 United States census|1960 census]]. Three annexation attempts were made by adjoining cities: [[Brea, California|Brea]] in 1958 and [[Anaheim]] and [[Placentia, California|Placentia]] in 1963.<ref name="timeline" /> These experiences culminated in incorporation, which occurred in 1967.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

The new city implemented a municipal [[general plan]] in 1972.<ref name="timeline" /> By the [[1980 United States census|1980 census]], the population was nearing 30,000.<ref name="timeline" /> Within ten years it exceeded 50,000.<ref name="timeline" />

In 1990, the [[Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum]] opened as a privately owned, public museum and research library with ceremonies that included a joint appearance by Presidents Richard Nixon, [[Gerald Ford]], [[Ronald Reagan]] and [[George H.W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite news|title=4 Presidents Open Nixon's Library|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-19-mn-566-story.html|access-date=July 10, 2023|first=Jim|last=Newton|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 19, 1990}}</ref> The campus included the [[Birthplace of Richard Nixon]].<ref name="timeline" /> The facility would later join the [[Presidential library system|presidential library]] system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nixon.archives.gov/ |title=Nixon Presidential Library & Museum |work=Nixon.archives.gov |date=May 15, 2008 |access-date=August 3, 2010}}</ref> In 1994, the [[community center]] opened.<ref name="timeline" />

With over 20,000 housing units in the city as of 2016,<ref>{{cite web|title=City of Yorba Linda – General Information|url=http://www.ci.yorba-linda.ca.us/index.php/information/general-information|access-date=August 6, 2016|archive-date=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815092907/http://www.ci.yorba-linda.ca.us/index.php/information/general-information|url-status=dead}}</ref> many residents now oppose further [[urban development]] and have organized to reduce [[traffic congestion]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Apartments proposed near lakebed getting further study|url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-667126-linda-yorba.html|access-date=August 6, 2016|date=June 19, 2015}}</ref> The [https://web.archive.org/web/20150405104635/http://ylpf.org/about.htm Yorba Linda Preservation Foundation] seeks to protect historical buildings in the city.

=== Post 2008 ===
In November 2008, eastern Yorba Linda [[Freeway Complex Fire|suffered from fires]] that destroyed 113 homes and damaged 50 others. The destruction was due largely to erratic winds causing embers to fly up to half a mile away.

On February 3, 2019, at approximately 1:45 pm, a twin engine 1981 Cessna (N414RS) on route from [[Fullerton Municipal Airport]] to Nevada crashed from roughly 7,500&nbsp;ft into a single family residence in the 19700 block of Crestknoll Drive near Glenknoll Elementary School. The pilot (75-year-old Antonio Pastini) and four individuals in the residence were killed.<ref>{{cite news |first=Eileen |last=Frere |url=https://abc7.com/yorba-linda-plane-crash/5120749/ |title=Yorba Linda plane crash: NTSB welcoming more witness video, testimony for investigation |publisher=ABC 7 News |date=February 4, 2019 }}</ref>

In October of the heightened [[2020 California wildfires]], fires destroyed one home and damaged ten others in the Yorba Linda area. Initially a brush fire, the Blue Ridge Fire quickly spread to 13,964 acres before being doused on November 11, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cota-Robles |first1=Marc |last2=McMillan |first2=Rob |date=October 28, 2020 |title=Blue Ridge Fire grows to 14,334 acres as flames threaten Yorba Linda homes |url=https://abc7.com/blue-ridge-fire-blueridge-green-corona/7386165/#:~:text=The%20Blue%20Ridge%20Fire%20has,more%20remain%20under%20evacuation%20orders.&text=The%20Blue%20Ridge%20Fire%20has%20burned%20at%20least%2015%2C200%20acres,YORBA%20LINDA%2C%20Calif. |publisher=ABC 7 News |access-date=July 29, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 21, 2020 |title=Blue Ridge Fire |url=https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/10/26/blue-ridge-fire/ |website=[[Cal Fire]] |access-date=July 29, 2023}}</ref>