X-Nico

unusual facts about Orange County, CA



Akerman LLP

Some early clients of the firm included Orange County, Florida, the Gentile Brothers Company, A. Duda & Sons, and the Dr. P. Phillips Company.

Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area

The Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area consists of over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of wetlands and uplands in Orange County and Sullivan County in New York State, U.S.

Brea Olinda Unified School District

Brea Olinda Unified School District is the school district serving the City of Brea in Orange County, California, United States.

Brooke Harman

Born in Orange County, California and moving to Brisbane, Queensland as a young child, her first television role was at age eleven on the children's television series The Wayne Manifesto.

Cristobal Aguilar

The Yorbas possessed vast land holdings including most of the Santa Ana Valley (in present-day Orange County, California).

Downstate New York

The northern boundary is extended by some definitions to include all or some of Putnam County, Orange County, and Dutchess County.

El Toro Y

The El Toro "Y" is a freeway interchange in southern Orange County, California where the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), and the San Diego Freeway, the I-405 merge.

Located in south Orange County where the cities of Lake Forest, Laguna Hills, and Irvine converge, the interchange was named after the city (El Toro - now Lake Forest) and the now closed Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, located northeast of the interchange.

Florida State Road 407

Within the SR 528/SR 407/I-95 triangle is a swampland containing the southern unit of St. Johns National Wildlife Refuge, a popular resting area for migrating birds (the northern unit is two miles (3 km) to the north, adjacent to I-95 and SR 50), and just to the west of the triangle is Tosohatchee Wildlife Management Area, which extends from SR 50 southward to just south of SR 520 in nearby Orange County.

Frederick Monhoff

He served as a design architect for the Los Angeles County Architectural Divisions and designed numerous public buildings and private residences in Southern California in the Los Angeles area, Malibu, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Orange County, and in Northern California in the Napa Valley.

Garrison Melmoth

The Melmoth was destroyed in the summer of 1982 at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, when the pilot of a Cessna landing with engine problems lost control of the aircraft and it impacted the Melmoth waiting for take-off clearance.

Germanna

The site of the first settlement is located in present-day Orange County along the banks of the Rapidan River, with subsequent settlements of Germans being established on sites in present-day Culpeper and Spotsylvania counties.

Hambletonian 10

Hambletonian 10 was bred by Jonas Seely, Jr. on his farm at Sugar Loaf in Orange County, New York.

Headnoise

Originally based in Orange County, California, they eventually moved to Illinois in the year 2000 to join Jesus People USA (aka "JPUSA"), an intentional Christian community and urban ministry serving inner-city Chicago with national and international branches of ministry.

Heidi Ganahl

Heidi was born in Orange County, California and raised in Monument, Colorado, where she attended Lewis-Palmer High School.

History of the Middle Eastern people in Metro Detroit

By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.

Hurricane Wilma

In other areas of Central Florida, schools were closed in Flagler, Lake, Orange, and Volusia counties.

Isola in the Rain

The single got no airplay on mainstream level, however it helped the band get their name out to audiences in other parts of America, as they were then only known around Orange County.

John Naka

In Orange County, Naka and four friends founded a bonsai club in November, 1950, which is known today as the California Bonsai Society.

Ju Jun

All 143 units were sold within a month of going on sale, in a phenomenon the Beijing media called "The Orange Storm." Designed by architect Aram Bassenian, who hails from Newport Beach, California in Orange County, California, the Orange County development is an example of wealthy Chinese adopting the suburban American built form.

LA84 Foundation

The Foundation makes grants in the eight southernmost counties of California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura).

Laguna Hills Mall

Laguna Hills Mall is an average sized, enclosed shopping mall located in Laguna Hills, California, in southern Orange County.

Lance Robertson

During this time, he met Scott Schultz of the Orange County indie pop band Majestic, and they eventually played a couple of shows together.

Loan Chau

In 1995, four years after arriving in California, Loan Châu won top honors at a karaoke contest at Ritz night club in Orange County.

Localizer type directional aid

# KSNA, LDA RWY 19R, John Wayne Airport-Orange County, Santa Ana, CA

Metroplan Orlando

Metroplan Orlando is the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Orlando, Florida Urban Area, which consists of Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties.

New York State Chess Association

Its president is Bill Goichberg of Salisbury Mills in Orange County, who is also U.S. Chess Federation president.

Nuckle Brothers

The Nuckle Brothers were a third wave ska band from Huntington Beach that was part of the early 1990s Orange County, California music scene, inspiring such bands as Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris and The Aquabats.

Orange County Employees Association

The Orange County Employees Association (OCEA), located in Santa Ana, California, is the largest independent public employee labor union in Orange County, representing about 18,000 employees.

Orangeville, Pennsylvania

Several names were originally considered for the community, including Knobtown, Rickettsville, and The Trap, but Orangeville was chosen after Orange County, New York and Orange, New Jersey.

Partners Federal Credit Union

Originally, membership in Partners FCU was limited to Walt Disney Company employees working in Orange County, California.

Pepe Mantilla

During the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Mantilla was a commentator for English-language radio station KLAC while also serving as a commentator in various sports programs in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.

Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District

The Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) is a public school district that serves Placentia, Yorba Linda and parts of Anaheim, Brea, and Fullerton located in Orange County, California.

Ramakrishna's influence

It premiered on September 16, 2006 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California, performed by Orange County’s Pacific Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carl St. Clair with the Pacific Chorale directed by John Alexander.

Ridgebury Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

The first settlers to Ridgebury Township were two families from Orange County New York, who arrived in 1805.

Robert Darr

Robert Darr (born 1951 in Orange County, California), also known as Robert Abdul Hayy Darr, is the author of several books on Sufism.

Santa Ana Civic Center

The County of Orange was formed in 1889 by William Spurgeon and James McFadden and Santa Ana was chosen as the county seat of government because of its larger growth as a town over surrounding towns namely Orange.

Santa Ana Unified School District

Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is a school district in Orange County, California that serves the city of Santa Ana.

Southern California Condors

The Southern California Condors are an International Fight League team based in Orange County, California.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Sherwood Ring

She journeys to her family's ancestral estate, "Rest-and-be-thankful," in Orange County, New York, and soon finds her uncle to be an eccentric and rather crochety man who is obsessed with his family's history.

U.S. Route 9W

The Orange County line is crossed just before Bear Mountain Circle.

Wagon Wheel, Rancho Santa Margarita, California

Wagon Wheel is a residential master planned community located adjacent to the city of Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, California.

William Wilson Hudson

He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Alabama before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1838.

Yen Ngoc Do

Inspired partly by this stewardship of common interests and goals, but mainly due to his love for writing and news, Do founded Nguoi Viet Daily News in 1978 in Orange County, California.

Ziyad Khaleel

In 1998 and 1999, Khaleel lived in an apartment in the eastern part of Florida's Orange County, near Orlando.


see also

Aaron Bertram

Aaron Bertram (born April 3, 1981 in Lubbock, Texas) is a trumpet player for third wave ska band Suburban Legends, and member of the children's group Kids Imagine Nation and is currently teaching music and movement to preschool students in Orange County, CA.