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Irvine is a charter city in Orange County, California, named after James Irvine, a rancher and founder of the Irvine Ranch. It has a population of over 300,000 and is known for its master-planned development, high quality of life, and educational and cultural institutions.
Learn about the history, academics, research, and athletics of UCI, one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. UCI is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California, with 87 undergraduate and 129 graduate degrees, and 30,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students.
Learn about the history, geography, demographics, economy, culture, and government of Orange County, the third-most-populous county in California. See maps, photos, and attractions of this county in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Orange County Great Park is a public park in Irvine, California, with a focus on sports, agriculture, and the arts. It has a four-sheet ice rink facility called Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena, which hosts ice hockey and figure skating events.
Steven Choi – politician and former Irvine Mayor [60] Chuck DeVore – politician and California State Assemblyman and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010; Ross Johnson – politician and former California State Legislator [61] Sukhee Kang – former mayor of Irvine and former Irvine Council member
Learn about the Irvine family, a prominent Californian real estate developer clan that founded the city of Irvine and the University of California, Irvine. The family traces its origins to James Irvine, an Irish immigrant who became a wealthy merchant and rancher in San Francisco and Southern California.
University of California, Irvine Medical Center is the only university hospital in Orange County with more than 400 specialty and primary care physicians. The medical center offers a full scope of acute- and general-care services including cancer care, digestive diseases, heart health neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, primary care ...
James Irvine called the new town Myford, as at the time there was a City of Irvine in Calaveras County in Northern California. Myford was renamed Irvine in 1914, as the Northern California town changed its name to Carson Hill. The 125,000-acre Irvine Ranch was the largest employer in the town for years, a very busy place during harvest time.