Fountain Valley, California

Fountain Valley is a city located in Orange County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 54,978. It was incorporated in 1957, before which it was known as Talbert (also as Gospel Swamps). It is located southwest and northeast of the San Diego Freeway (405), which diagonally bisects the city, and is surrounded by Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa. Its eastern border is the Santa Ana River. A classic bedroom community, Fountain Valley is a safe, middle-class, residential area with blooming commercial innovations but with little agricultural and industrial production of its own. It is home to Mile Square Regional Park, a 640 acre (2.6 km²) park containing two lakes, three golf courses, playing fields, picnic shelters, and a twenty acre urban nature area planted with California native plants.

External links

• City of Fountain Valley official site