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LOCATED ON THE PACIFIC between Los Angeles and San Diego counties, Orange is a bedroom-business county of nearly 3 million residents, famous for its beaches, its weather and its amusements, foremost Disneyland. Roughly rectangular in shape, Orange County covers 798 square miles, about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island. The northeast side of the county rises into the Santa Ana Mountains. In the winter, Santiago, the county’s highest peak, 5,687 feet, occasionally dons a mantle of snow. The southwest side descends to the Pacific and to about 42 miles of beaches used year-round but the water is often chilly. Wetsuits are favored attire.
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In population, Orange County ranks among the top ten counties in the nation and within California, second, way behind Los Angeles and just slightly ahead of San Diego.
There are two “Oranges” — the county and the City of Orange, one of 34 cities in the county. Before the freeways and suburbia, Orange County was famous for growing oranges. Orange and lemon trees are still plentiful but the days of the great groves and the giant harvests are gone. Nonetheless, farming pops up in the oddest places. In some towns, tall and sleek office buildings sit side by side with strawberry fields.
What nourished the orange now delights the residents and the visitors — the beautiful weather. |
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