Buena Park, California

Buena Park is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Santa Ana, the county seat, and within the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Its population was 84,034 at the 2020 census. The city is best known as a tourist district, with attractions along Beach Boulevard that include the Knott's Berry Farm theme park. The land was the site of the Tongva village of Juyubit, one of the largest villages of the region, and later lay within Rancho Los Coyotes, a Spanish land grant made to Manuel Nieto's heirs. After the railroad reached Los Angeles, the grocer James A. Whitaker bought 690 acres in 1885 and founded the City of Buena Park in 1887; the city was incorporated on January 27, 1953. The origin of the name is uncertain, with one theory pointing to a Chicago suburb of the same name and another to an artesian well and park-like grounds that settlers called Plaza Buena. Once an agricultural centre of dairy, wine and citrus production, it is now mainly a residential suburb and commercial hub.