Fountain Valley, California

Fountain Valley is a suburban city in Orange County, California, in the United States. The Tongva people lived in the area, and the nearest village to the present site was Pasbenga, on the Santa Ana River. European settlement began with the Rancho Los Nietos land grant, later Rancho Las Bolsas, and the land passed from Spain to Mexico and then to the United States. A settlement called Talbert grew up around a general store opened by the Talbert family in the 1890s, and the area was long farmland, notably sugar beets, before large housing tracts arrived in the 1960s. The city was incorporated in 1957, and its name refers to the high water table and the many artesian wells that once marked the district. Its first mayor, James Kanno, was one of the first Japanese-American mayors of a mainland United States city. After 1975 many Vietnamese refugees settled here. The 2020 census counted 57,047 residents.