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Santa Ana defeated Anaheim in the referendum. With the referendum having passed, the County of Orange was officially incorporated on August 1, 1889. [31]
The story begins in 1869, in Anaheim. The 12-year-old community began a dual drive to incorporate as a city, and to form its own county—Anaheim County. Both measures required the approval of the State Legislature. Incorporation came easy.
When the new State of California was first divided into counties in 1850, what is now Orange County was simply the southern end of Los Angeles County.
In 1888, the City of Orange was incorporated, with a population of about 1,500. A year later, Orange County was formed out of the southern end of Los Angeles County. But by then, the real estate boom was winding down, and to make matters worse, a blight destroyed many of the local vineyards.
By the 1930s, Orange County was producing a sixth of the nation’s Valencia orange crop. The oil industry also played a key role in the development of Orange County. The first successful wells were drilled locally in the 1890s along the northern edge of the county.
But the Boom collapsed as quickly as it had begun, and only Fullerton, Buena Park, and El Toro survived to become incorporated cities. The Boom also led to the creation of Orange County in 1889. It had been almost two decades since the first proposal to split off the southern end of Los Angeles County had been sent to Sacramento.
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