Santa Ana, California

Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was a 63,414-acre (256.63 km2) Spanish land concession in present-day Orange County, California, given by Spanish Alta California Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1810 to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta. The grant extended eastward from the Santa Ana River to the Santa Ana Mountains, with a length of more than 22 miles (35 km).The lands encompass present-day Santa Ana, Orange, Villa Park, Anaheim Hills, El Modena, Tustin, Costa Mesa, and a part of Irvine, which was formerly known as Rancho Lomas de Santiago and was titled to one of the Yorbas.

Santa Ana High School is the oldest and largest high school in Orange County, California, United States. The school was established in 1889.

Santa Ana Stadium, also known as Eddie West Field or the Santa Ana Bowl, is a city-owned and operated 9,000-capacity American football and soccer stadium located in downtown Santa Ana. The field was named after Eddie West, a writer for the Orange County Register and tireless supporter of the Santa Ana College Dons and all Orange County sports.The city's stadium holds many events in addition to its high school and college football main draws, including children's and adult soccer games through local leagues, high school and college commencement ceremonies and more. The City of Santa Ana scheduled retrofitting of the stadium to begin on January 4, 2016 and end on April 30, 2016 but work was not completed until August 2016. Current tenants include the Santa Ana Unified School District's High School football teams, the Santa Ana College Dons football team, and the Mater Dei Monarchs football team. The upstart United Premier Soccer League, founded in Santa Ana, also holds occasional exhibition and league playoff matches at the stadium, for its various clubs.

The Superior Court of California, County of Orange, also known as the Orange County Superior Court or Orange Superior Court, is the branch of the California superior court with jurisdiction over Orange County.

The Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse at 411 West Fourth Street in Santa Ana, California, is a ten-story United States federal building and courthouse on 3.94 acres (15,900 m2) that includes courtrooms, judges chambers, offices and courtroom galleries of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Named for former President and California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1998, the building is owned by the General Services Administration and is 176 ft (54 m) tall.

The West End Theater is a historic former movie theater on 4th Street in Santa Ana, California. Developer L. A. Schlesinger commissioned the theater in 1915 and architect James Flood Walker designed the building. It was later operated by Santa Ana theater proprietor C. E. Walker and named the State Theater. It showed arthouse and foreign film in the 1960s as the Guild Theater and was operated as an adult movie theater called the State Arts Theater in the 1970s. After the venue closed in 1978, the building survived a series of demolitions downtown. It has since been repurposed as a cafe.

The Santora is a historic commercial building located in Downtown Historic District of Santa Ana, California. It now houses art galleries, retail stores, and restaurants.

Mater Dei High School is a private, Catholic, co-educational secondary school in Santa Ana, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. Mater Dei is known for its strong sports programs, especially in football, and for its multiple graduates who have won the Heisman Trophy. As of 2022, the school has had 23 Gatorade Players of the Year. The Football team plays in the Southern Section Division 1, and most recently won the CIF State Championship during the 2021 season. There is a total of 25 sports teams at the school, with 71% of the athletes being on the Honor Roll.

Lorin Griset Academy is a continuation high school in the Santa Ana Unified School District in Orange County, California. It opened in 2006. The current principal is Michael A. Parra.

Rankin's was a department store at 117 W. Fourth Street at Sycamore in downtown Santa Ana, California. The Rankin Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places on its own and also as a contributing property of the Downtown Santa Ana Historic Districts. The store had its origins as the Rankin Dry Goods company, founded in 1894. Mr. J. H. Rankin of Bloomfield, Indiana, together with T. D. Huff & Sons opened up the dry goods store on the site of Swanner's Grocery Store. The store was enlarged three times before moving into the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2), three-story space at Fourth and Sycamore in 1917.

The New Walker Theatre is a historic former movie theater on Main Street in Santa Ana, California. Opened in 1924, it came under new management as the Fox Walker Theatre in 1925 and later operated as the West Coast Theatre. Theater specialist firm Boller Brothers designed the building in the Mission Revival and Moderne styles; it was the group's 100th project. The New Walker Theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 19, 1982. Following its closure as a movie theater in the 1980s, the auditorium was later purchased and renovated by a church in 1991.

Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA), also called Downtown Orange County, is the historic city center of Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange County, California. It is the institutional center for the city of Santa Ana as well as Orange County, a retail and business hub, and has in recent years developed rapidly as a regional cultural, entertainment and culinary center for Orange County. The Downtown Santa Ana Historic Districts are listed with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and consist of numerous historic buildings across the area.