Midway City

History

Two miles directly to the east of Midway City was the now-defunct Town of Bolsa, which was established in 1870. Midway City's northernmost boundary, Hazard Avenue, is named after the great-grandparents of Clyde Hazard: early American pioneers Robert Samuel and Betsy Ann (née White) Hazard, who moved from Hitchcock County, Nebraska with their children to the Westminster district in August 1881 and subsequently purchased forty acres northwest of the Town of Bolsa on February 6, 1882. Ann was a direct descendant of the White family, who, in 1620, sailed from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Mayflower. In 1915, one of the top United States poultry judges, W. M. Wise, moved from Michigan to perform breeding and service work for Pacific Southwest Poultry Farm in Midway City. Seven years later, Midway City began to take shape in 1922 when John H. Harper purchased of land based on the location of a local stagecoach stop and needs of the workers in the Huntington Beach Oil Field located west of the stagecoach stop. The area, which currently includes four unincorporated, "anemic" sections as a result of annexation for the Westminster business district, is known as Midway City; the largest section looks like a crooked letter "P". Midway City is six miles from Santa Ana, six miles from Huntington Beach, and seven miles from Long Beach, giving rise to the Midway City name. Harper Street, which vertically bisects the largest of the four Midway City sections, is named after John Harper. After learning of American aviator Charles Lindbergh's famed May 20–21, 1927 first solo transatlantic flight via non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight between America and mainland Europe, Three months later, by August 1927, Zenith Aircraft Corporation built a huge, lightweight tri-motor…

Geography

Midway City is located at (33.7447, −117.987). Under the United States Census Bureau's most recent survey, the area had a total area of (404 acres), all land. According to the June 2012 land records published by the Orange County Public Works, Midway City occupies about 391 acres within an 832-acre rectangular boundary, where the four islands measure approximately: the northeast island: 296.6 acres, the southwest island: 40.5 acres, the southeast island: 33 acres, and the northwest island: 21.1 acres.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  90,349
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  86,043
• Black Phoebe

  Sayornis nigricans (Swainson, 1827) · Aves
  83,352
• Allen's Hummingbird

  Selasphorus sasin (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  69,806
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  67,702
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  64,518
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  59,286
• Anna's Hummingbird

  Calypte anna (R.Lesson, 1829) · Aves
  55,642

Largest nearby schools

• Fountain Valley High
  High · Fountain Valley · 3,180 students · 26.3:1 ratio
• Santa Ana High
  High · Santa Ana · 3,135 students · 23.2:1 ratio
• Los Alamitos High
  High · Los Alamitos · 3,055 students · 25.5:1 ratio
• Cypress High
  High · Cypress · 2,820 students · 24.5:1 ratio
• Huntington Beach High
  High · Huntington Beach · 2,807 students · 26.2:1 ratio
• Anaheim High
  High · Anaheim · 2,750 students · 21:1 ratio
• Westminster High
  High · Westminster · 2,637 students · 24.2:1 ratio
• Katella High
  High · Anaheim · 2,587 students · 23.5:1 ratio

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