![]() East of Plano Trabuco Road is designated with a Trabuco Canyon (92679) zip code even though the area falls within the City of Rancho Santa Margarita boundary. SAMLARC, Dove Canyon, Trabuco Highlands, Robinson Ranch, and Rancho Cielo were all established before Rancho Santa Margarita was an incorporated community. The majority of the neighborhoods in RSM are maintained by larger homeowners associations including SAMLARC, Melinda Heights, town center, Dove Canyon, Rancho Cielo, Robinson Ranch, and Trabuco Highlands. Major homeowners associations and communities Rancho Santa Margarita is bordered by the city of Mission Viejo on the west, the census-designated Coto de Caza and Las Flores on the south, Trabuco Canyon on the north, and the Cleveland National Forest on the east. 13.0 square miles (34 km 2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) of it (0.27%) is water. It occupies much of a high plateau known as Plano Trabuco.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.0 square miles (34 km 2). Since its incorporation in 2000, Rancho Santa Margarita has repeatedly been rated as one of the safest cities in California and the nation. Fire Protection services are provided through the Orange County Fire Authority. Police services are provided through contract with the Orange County Sheriff. ![]() Rancho Santa Margarita is a contract city. The City is a general law city and operates under the council-manager form of government. The newly formed City of Rancho Santa Margarita incorporated on January 1, 2000, and became the 33rd city in the County of Orange. In November 1999, area voters opted to incorporate the Rancho Santa Margarita Planned Community and the neighboring Robinson Ranch, Dove Canyon, Rancho Cielo, Trabuco Highlands and Walden Communities. Rancho Santa Margarita was planned to be an “Urban Village”, offering the best of two worlds: all of the elements and advantages of a small city plus the quality of life of a small village. The CCA, later known as the Rancho Margarita Civic Association (and still later as the Civic Council), briefly explored self-governance, but it was in 1995 that the RSM Cityhood Committee, a separate community organization, began the official drive for cityhood. In 1989, the people of the community of Rancho Santa Margarita established a Community Civic Association (CCA) for the purpose of providing a political voice for the community. The area became better linked to the rest of the county in 1992, when extensions of Oso, Antonio and Alicia Parkways were completed. The economic boom of the 1980s also fueled home construction in nearby Dove Canyon, Robinson Ranch, Wagon Wheel and a handful of smaller developments. The area remained fairly remote until 1986, when the first homes in the new master planned community of Rancho Santa Margarita were sold. The area's first tract developed homes didn't arrive until late in the decade in what would become Coto de Caza, which started out as a hunting and fishing resort. The O'Neill family donated an additional 120 acres of parkland in 1963, the same year they founded the Mission Viejo Company and drew up plans for a master-planned community of the same name.īy the 1960s, a rural cluster of homes had been present in Trabuco Canyon for decades. In 1948, the O'Neill family donated 278 acres of canyon bottom land to the County of Orange for park purposes. In 1942, the Navy annexed the Flood family’s portion of the ranch for use as Camp Joseph H. In 1940, the ranch was divided, with the Flood family taking the lower portion, in today's San Diego County, with the upper portion retained by the O'Neill family. The huge estate was run as a working ranch into the 1920s. Flood and his partner Jerome O’Neill purchased the combined ranchos in 1882. ![]() The Mexican governors carved the area around the mission into three large ranchos: Rancho Trabuco, Rancho Mission Viejo, and Rancho Santa Margarita. The Spaniards founded Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, and ruled the region until 1821, when California became part of Mexico. The name has been associated with the mesa, the canyon, and the entire area ever since. To mark this loss, the stream was named Trabuco. While camped here on July 24–25, one of the soldiers lost his trabuco, or musket, a most valuable possession to any soldier. This was on the eastern side of Trabuco Creek about three miles downstream from the present site of Trabuco Oaks. They found a large plateau area and camped that night on its western edge by a canyon, which the Franciscans named San Francisco Solano. On July 24, the expedition headed inland to avoid the many streams and swamps in the area. ![]()
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