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  Name: Coyote Hills
  Location: Fullerton, California
  
  510-acre West Coyote Hills is currently owned by Chevron, which is proposing adding a 760-unit housing project for an area that has already seen the rapid growth of several thousand new homes in the last few years. This land is the last significant open space in a ten-city, highly urbanized area of North Orange County, California. It contains rich coastal sagebrush habitat, supporting 60 pairs of California gnatcatchers and other rare species.
  
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  Official Link: Coyote Hills

  By  etavatom, at November 09, 2007 7:26 PM  

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• there is a housing tract near malvern and beach bl. in buena park called los coyotes and also a country club with the same name. is this the same area? i believe it is. my dad was a buena park mailman for yrs. and for awhile use to deliver mail in this area. one of the houses he use to deliver to was lived in by a member(s) of the christian rock group,"stryper".

  By  ex-knott's employee, at November 09, 2007 9:20 PM  

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• It seems to me one of the County "Dumps" was called Coyote Hills I think it closed down and a new one was established in the hills outside of Irvine. It's been so many years, my memory is not what it was.
  
  Oil in Orange County - Huntington Beach was FULL of the bobbing oil rigs (one arm bandits?), all along the the coast and into the wetlands. There used to be oil storage up on the bluffs above Newport Shores, you could see them on the canal side on 62nd Street.

  By  avelyn, at November 10, 2007 1:28 PM  

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• Coyote Hills Oil was in the hills just above Malvern in Fullerton, near Gilbert. During WWII there was an oil sump and drain that was a major environmental mess. They would dump old aircraft fuel from the Fullerton airport there. Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton was also using the dump for used oil from there test trucks. The hills were filled with oil derricks in the '40s, but all the wells were sealed when the housing boom came.

  By  Anonymous, at November 15, 2007 7:53 PM  

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• Yes, Coyote Hills was a place to ride bikes. lots of trails. It was located on adams. Heading north, from say brokherst, when adams goes up a couple hills before reaching Harbor. From where those hills are the riding area was vacant fields out to the left or west. Even my Dad that grew up in Hunting knew of this place.
  Stan Chamness

  By  Anonymous, at November 17, 2007 4:32 PM  

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• At the risk of drifting into "history cop" mode, I'd like to clear up a few things...
  
  First of all, Coyote Hills is still called Coyote Hills. The name comes from the fact that it was part of the Rancho Los Coyotes.
  
  Also, El Modena and Olive are two very different locations, although both communities are now incorporated into the City of Orange (with some parts of Olive still unincorporated). Olive is on the Orange side of the bend in the river. El Modena is on the other side of Orange, around East Chapman, almost to the hills.
  
  There were, however, a lot of name changes for El Modena over the years. First it was Modena, then it was changed to Earlham, then El Modena, then El Modeno, then back to El Modena, and now most of it is part of the City of Orange.
  
  Only the tiny portion of Irvine we now know as "Old Irvine" was known as Myford. It's unclear how much the name Myford was used other than by the post office. The railroad always used the name Irvine for the station there.
  
  And finally, Fountain Valley was not known as Gospel Swamp, as is commonly believed. The Gospel Swamp area was mostly in what's now South Santa Ana. It's on the other side of the river from Fountain Valley. The name has somehow been drifting steadily west since about 1900. Today, you'll sometimes even hear that Huntington Beach was called Gospel Swamp. Go figure.
  
  For a good case of name-swap-itis, check out Capistrano Beach. It began as San Juan-By-The-Sea, then became Serra, followed by Capistrano Beach, then Doheny Park, then back to Capistrano Beach, finally becoming part of Dana Point when that City incorporated.
  
  CJ

  By  Chris Jepsen, at November 19, 2007 1:51 PM  

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• Back in the 60's, I lived near Beach & Malvern in Buena Park. The development I lived in was called Bellehurst and included the Los Coyote country club and bordered the Hughes Aircraft and oil companies' toxic dump.I and my friends rode mini-bikes in that area (unwisely it would seem) all the time. There were no homes on the north side of Malvern back then and an open space clear to Gilbert. I remember the oil rigs in the Coyote Hills and when I saw the trailer for "there will be blood" mentioning the Coyote Hills ad knowing that the area was open spaces back in that time frame, I also thought this might be the area in the story.
  My family ran a gas station on the corner of Beach and Malvern and there was a tastee freez and Johnny's speed and chrome in the strip mall behind it. It was a pretty good place for a young boy to live back then.

  By  jimmy22, at March 16, 2008 8:31 PM  

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