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About La Habra

The City of La Habra is a suburban community of more than seven square miles and sixty thousand citizens. La Habra's city limits with neighboring La Habra Heights form part of Orange County's northern boundary with Los Angeles County.

Founded circa 1896, the La Habra School District operateas nine elementary and middle school campuses within La Habra city limits and is responsible for more than five-thousand students over five square miles of La Habra, Fullerton and Brea. City youth here attend either "Sonora" or "La Habra" High Schools as managaed by the Fullerton Joint Union High School District. The La Habra City Hall Complex houses the Orange County Library hosting youth events and book clubs with long hours weekday hours from 10-8. In fact, nearby former President Dick Nixon's first law office was razed circa 1990 to make way for the revitalized La Habra Civic Center.

La Habra operates and maintains twenty four parks and six bike pathways. Among the city's finest are La Bonita Park which houses the areas Boys' & Girls' Club as well ten acres named Portola Park boasting among other amenities: three baseball diamonds, a community theatre outdoor pavilion, BBQ's equipped picnic facilities, twelve lighted tennis courts with pro-shop and two day care centers serving over six hundred area children. The park also includes the locally renowned La Habra Children's Museum, a U. S. West Coast first when opened in 1977. The children's museum was converted from an original 1923 Train Depot into seven galleries and fourteen dynamic interactive exhibits. In addition to at least one rotating exhibit, activities include driving a bus, petting an arctic fox, digging for fossils, and a decommissioned antique train caboose now equipped for pint size fun!

Golfers enjoy the Westridge Golf Club with eighteen holes of finely manicured greens set against the area's beautiful rolling foothills. The grounds annually regularly host events including weddings.

The La Habra Towne Center comprises over 90,000 square feet of commercial space where La Habrans enjoy Tommy's Hamburgers, TJ Maxx & Quizno's.

Discovered by the Spanish in modern times circa 1769 as a pass through the hills, the City of La Habra or "the open" was incorporated by 1925 with the motto a "Caring Community." Soon after turn of the 19th century, diversion of San Gabriel River water to irrigate semi-arid land allowed to La Habra's pioneering farmers to conquer the potential foil of drought which had bankrupted the large cattle ranches pre-dating their expansive avocado, citrus and walnut tree groves. La Habra's large tract home neighborhoods largely replaced agriculture land uses in the 1950's and 1960's. The City of La Habra contracts with the County of Los Angeles for residents' emergency medical and fire services.

Neighborhoods

• Chelsea Place
• Classic Homes
• Country Hills East
• Country Terrace
• Coyote Creek
• Crest at Westridge
• Fashion Heights
• Gables
• Hidden Lakes
• La Habra Heights Estates
• La Habra Hills Estates
• La Habra Woods Townhomes
• La Plaza
• Lakeview Townhomes
• Mira Vista
• North Hills
• Park View
• Parkside Townhomes
• Pointe at Westridge
• Smoke Tree
• Stone Harbor
• Sunny Hills Village
• The Reserve
• Woodlake Village

See a list of zip codes in La Habra

• 90631
• 90632
• 90633