Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
135historic places
—earliest paper
1889formed
3,186,989pop. 2020
18cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 135 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Fullerton, Santa Ana, Orange.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.
County formation
Newberry AHCB
Orange was formed in 1889 (1889-06-04) from Los Angeles.
ORANGE created from LOS ANGELES. Act passed 11 March 1889; referendum for or against creation of new county held 4 June 1889. Included small, non-mappable changes.
Orange County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1890
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
13,589
19,696
61,375
130,760
216,224
703,925
1,932,709
2,846,289
3,186,989
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
18 cemeteries and 12 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Anaheim Cemetery
33.84223
-117.89894
Ascension Cemetery
33.65141
-117.69532
El Toro Memorial Park
33.64092
-117.68264
Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary
33.77266
-117.84333
Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Cypress
33.83266
-118.05553
Historic Yorba Cemetery
33.86473
-117.78365
Holy Cross Cemetery
33.82372
-117.9426
Holy Sepulcher Cemetery
33.81067
-117.76954
Loma Vista Memorial Park and Mortuary
33.90179
-117.91883
Magnolia Memorial Park and Gardens
33.78438
-117.97647
Melrose Abbey Memorial Park
33.79331
-117.8953
Memory Garden Memorial Park and Mortuary
33.93246
-117.90291
Mission Cemetery
33.5038
-117.65618
Pacific View Memorial Park
33.61196
-117.85282
Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery
33.7724
-117.83894
Santa Ana Cemetery
33.76756
-117.8399
The Good Shepherd Cemetery and Mausoleum
33.70151
-117.98419
Westminster Memorial Park
33.7489
-117.99394
Historical populated places — 12 of 12
Name
Lat
Lon
Carbondale
33.75335
-117.67727
Daum
33.89751
-117.842
El Nido Mobile Home Estates
33.63363
-117.92172
Gypsum
33.87724
-117.69283
Miraflores
33.80863
-117.8945
Northam
33.88001
-117.99812
Oleo
33.92057
-117.87839
Olinda
33.92612
-117.83756
Santa Ysabel
33.86724
-117.88617
Snug Harbor Trailer Park
33.63447
-117.92117
Sugar
33.73807
-117.99812
Wanda
33.81252
-117.82228
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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