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1660373, 2409897. Website. www.cityofbrea.net. Brea (/ ˈbreɪə /; [7] Spanish for 'tar') is a city in northern Orange County, California. The population as of the 2010 census was 39,282. It is 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Los Angeles. Brea is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Carbon Canyon Regional Park. The lake that is found in the center of the park. Location of the park on a map of Southern California. Carbon Canyon Regional Park (or simply Carbon Canyon 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.
State Route 142 SR 142 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 11.467 mi (18.454 km) Major junctions West end SR 90 in Brea East end SR 71 in Chino Hills Location Country United States State California Counties Orange, San Bernardino Highway system State highways in California Interstate US State Scenic History Pre‑1964 Unconstructed Deleted Freeways ← SR 140 → ...
The Brea-Olinda Oil Field is a large oil field in northern Orange County and Los Angeles County, California, along the southern edge of the Puente Hills, about four miles (6 km) northeast of Fullerton, and adjacent to the city of Brea. Discovered in 1880, the field is the sixteenth largest in California by cumulative production, and was the ...
La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
This mammoth building will be the first new housing unit in the city to move forward under state law AB 2011, which was designed to combat California's housing crisis. ... just east of La Brea Avenue.
State Route 60 (SR 60) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California.It serves the cities and communities on the eastern side of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and runs along the south side of the San Gabriel Valley.
Olinda is a neighborhood in Brea, California, located on Carbon Canyon Road east of the rest of the city. [2] The original village was founded in the 1890s and grew when petroleum was discovered at the adjacent Brea-Olinda Oil Field. In February 1917, Olinda Village and the nearby town of Randolph were incorporated as the city of Brea.