Olinda
Olinda is a neighborhood in Brea, California, located on Carbon Canyon Road east of the rest of the city. The original village was founded in the 1890s and grew when petroleum was discovered at the adjacent Brea-Olinda Oil Field.- Type: Suburb
- Description: Orange County, California
- Also known as: “Olinda, Brea, California” and “Olinda, Orange County, California”
- Address: Brea
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carbon Canyon Regional Park and Yorba Linda High School.
Carbon Canyon Regional Park
Park
Photo: MorbidEntree, CC0.
Carbon Canyon Regional Park is a regional park in Brea, California, that was created after the Carbon Canyon Creek was dammed. It links up with Chino Hills State Park on the east side. Carbon Canyon Regional Park is situated 2 miles west of Olinda.
Yorba Linda High School
School
Yorba Linda High School is a public high school located in Yorba Linda, California and is part of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. The school's colors are navy blue, crimson, and silver. Yorba Linda High School is situated 2 miles southeast of Olinda.
Carbon Canyon Dam
Dam
Photo: Sergei Gussev, CC BY 2.0.
Carbon Canyon Dam is a dam at the northern edge of Orange County, California. The dam is approximately 4 miles east of the city of Brea and approximately 12 miles north of the city of Santa Ana. Carbon Canyon Dam is situated 2 miles southwest of Olinda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yorba Linda and Atwood.
Yorba Linda
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yorba Linda is a city in Orange County and a suburb of Los Angeles in Southern California. Its most famous resident was Richard Nixon. His birthplace is a National Historic Landmark, at his presidential library and museum located there.
Atwood
Hamlet
Atwood is a small predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Placentia, California, United States. Atwood's unofficial boundaries are defined roughly as the area of Placentia in the square formed by Orangethorpe Avenue, Van Buren Street, Lakeview Road, and Miraloma Avenue. Atwood is situated 4½ miles south of Olinda.
Brea
Photo: Jonnyboyca, Public domain.
Brea is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 47,325. It is 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Olinda
- Categories: human settlement, historic site, and locality
- Location: Orange County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.92641° or 33° 55′ 35″ northLongitude
-117.80445° or 117° 48′ 16″ westOpen location code
8554W5GW+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2268025940OpenStreetMap feature
historic=townOpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7086921
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