ANAHEIM, a city of Orange county, California, U.S.A., 25 m. S.E. of Los Angeles. It is served by the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific, and the Union Pacific railways, and by a net work of highways. The population was 5,526 in 1920; and was in 1930.
It lies in a fertile plain, irrigated from the Santa Ana river, which produces lemons and deciduous fruits, walnuts, berries, sugar beets, grain, and vegetables. The chief industrial products are dried and canned fruits, beet sugar, farm machinery, oil-well drilling supplies and denatured alcohol. Natural gas and crude oil are used for fuel.
Anaheim was the first of the settlements due to co-operative enterprise in Southern California. In 1857, 5o Germans organized an association in San Francisco, bought 1,165 acres of arid land, and prepared it for occupancy. The tract was then divided into 20-acre shares, which were distributed among the members by lot, with bonuses and rebates to equalize differences in value. This ended the co-operative aspect of the venture, except that the irrigating canal remained common property. The town was incor porated in 1870, and received a city charter in 1888. It has a city-manager form of government.