Garden Grove, California
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| City of Garden Grove | |||||
The Crystal Cathedral in May 2007
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| Motto: Absit Invidia (Latin) | |||||
 Location in Orange County and the U.S. state of California |
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 Vicinity of Garden Grove |
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 Garden Grove
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| Coordinates: 33°46′44″N 117°57′37″W / 33.77889°N 117.96028°WCoordinates: 33°46′44″N 117°57′37″W / 33.77889°N 117.96028°W | |||||
| Country |  United States of America |
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 California
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 Orange
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| Founded | 1874 | ||||
| Incorporated | June 18, 1956 | ||||
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| • Type | Council-manager | ||||
| • Mayor | Steven R. Jones | ||||
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| • Total | 17.959 sq mi (46.513 km2) | ||||
| • Land | 17.941 sq mi (46.467 km2) | ||||
| • Water | 0.018 sq mi (0.046 km2) 0.10% | ||||
| Elevation | 89 ft (27 m) | ||||
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |||||
| • Total | 170,883 | ||||
| • Estimate (2013) | 175,140 | ||||
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5th in Orange County 25th in California |
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| • Density | 9,500/sq mi (3,700/km2) | ||||
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) | ||||
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) | ||||
| ZIP codes | 92840–92846 | ||||
| Area codes | 657/714 | ||||
| FIPS code | 06-29000 | ||||
| GNIS feature IDs | 1660662, 2410568 | ||||
| Website | www |
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Garden Grove is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, located 34 miles (55 km) south of the city of Los Angeles. The population was 170,883 at the 2010 United States Census. State Route 22, also known as the Garden Grove Freeway, passes through the city in an east-west direction. The western portion of the city is known as West Garden Grove.
Garden Grove was founded by Alonzo Cook in 1874. A school district and Methodist church were organized that year. It remained a small rural crossroads until the arrival of the railroad in 1905. The rail connection helped the town prosper with crops of orange, walnuts, chili peppers and later strawberries.
In 1933, much of the town's central business district was destroyed by the Long Beach earthquake, and one person was killed at the high school. The post-World War II boom led to rapid development, and Garden Grove was incorporated as a city in 1956 with about 44,000 residents.
An annual event held over Memorial Day weekend, the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is one of the largest community festivals in the western United States, attracting an estimated 250,000 visitors. It began in 1958 and celebrates the city's agricultural past, which includes cultivating crops such as chili peppers, oranges, walnuts and strawberries. Part of the festivities include the cutting of the world's largest strawberry shortcake, carnival rides and vendors and a celebrity-filled parade. Numerous Garden Grove organizations, including the Miss Garden Grove Scholarship Program, are part of the Memorial Day weekend festivities every year. In commemoration of Garden Grove's 50th anniversary, the city painted some of its fire hydrants with a design that featured a strawberry, recognizing the festival as a big part of Garden Grove's history.
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