With more than 325,000 people, Santa Ana ranks the 57th most populous city in the U.S., and scores as the 4th-most densely populated city in the nation. The city has a total area of 27.5 square miles, and racks up a score of some 12,475 people per sq. mile. Like 255,000 (78.2%) of the population are Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Latinos (a.k.a. Hispanics).
The City is broken down into over fifty communities
1. Mar-Les
2. Edna Park
3. Concord
4. Bristol Memory
5. Morison-Eldridge
6. Park Santiago
7. Fairhaven
8. Portola Park
9. Meredith Parkwood
10. Mabury Park
11. Fisher Park
12. West Floral
13. Floral Park
14. The Triangle
15. Riverview
16. Santa Anita
17. Artesia-Pilar
18. Washington Square
19. Willard
20. Downtown / Civic Center
21. French Court
22. French Park
23. Saddleback
24. Flower Park
25. Lacy
26. Windsor Village North
27. Windsor Village South
28. Casa Bonita
29. Townsend-Raitt
30. Central City
31. Pico-Lowell
32. Henninger Park
33. Eastside
34. Cornerstone Village
35. Lyon Street
36. New Horizons
37. Mid-City
38. Wilshire Square
39. Madison Park
40. Centennial Park
41. Valley Adams
42. Shadow Run
43. Bristol Warner
44. Bristol Manor
45. Cedar Evergreen Co-Op
46. Morning Sunwood
47. Thornton Park
48. Rosewood Baker
49. Metro Classic
50. Republic Homes
51. South Coast
52. Sandpointe
53. Delhi
LOGAN.. DELHI.. ARTESIA-PILAR being among the oldest communities in the city.
Just like EAST LOS in LA COUNTY is filled with Mexican settlements and neighborhoods that gave rise to some of the oldest most renown and still in existence barrios, so too Santa Ana in Orange County is where barrios just as old as their East LA counterparts exist!
Were as East Los had La Maravilla, The Flats, and Barrio Simons, Santa Ana has Logan, Delhi, Santa Anita and Artesia-Pilar neighborhoods. These four barrios were the genesis of the later conglomerate of Chicano barrios that were to fill up the city in the later decades of the twentieth century. Santa Ana’s four separate barrios were located on opposite sides of town.
Logan
Considered to be the oldest, Barrio Logan came to be established on the East Side of Santa Ana. Logan is located adjacent to the Southern Pacific R&R, wedged in-between the Interstate 5 and the Atchinson-Topeka-Santa Fe tracks, centered on Logan Street with Logan Park at its core.
Logan’s barrio roots trace back to the 1880s with the founding of Santa Ana East; A commercial area next to the then new train depot. When Anglo business later dried out, the Mexican families, who had begun to settle in this area as day-laborers and agricultural hands in the surrounding groves, developed it into more than just a place to live, they developed it into the working-class neighborhood which by the early 1900s was home to the largest Mexican community in Santa Ana.
Delhi
The Delhi barrio formed on the south side of the city adjacent to the R&R tracks by the Holy Sugar Company factory. In present days map the neighborhood can be perfectly placed in-between Warner Avenue on the north, Main Street to the west, and the tracks on both the south and east, with Delhi Park at its center.
Delhi by the year 1920 had grown to incorporate some 100 families, and as the years went by, the barrio continued to attract more and more Mexican families. By 1928, when Delhi became incorporated into the city of Santa Ana, the barrio had already established its own lecheria (dairy mart), a planta de agua (water plant), and a’ escuelita (Mexican school). The barrio nevertheless continued to remain highly rural. Delhi grew with the influx of Mexican families who came fleeing the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution, and other families who followed the R&R for jobs. Many of those families settled in Delhi because it was one of the few places where Mexicans could buy land and plant.
With its lasting roots, Delhi spawned a barrio where the local neighborhood boys married with local neighborhood girls; where neighbors stood as Godparents at the bautizos (baptisms) of each other’s children. It was a neighborhood were its people worked in the near-by sugar fields, and at the sugar factory. Delhi was a neighborhood where folks sat outdoors in the evenings after a long day of hard work and partook with each other, and it was also a place where its residents built their own makeshift shacks and homes. The barrio didn’t have sidewalks and paved streets; it wasn’t until the 1950s that Delhi residents petitioned city hall -agreeing to raise their property taxes- in order to improve the area and pave the streets.
There existed a sweet nostalgia in this Delhi neighborhood, one of pre-modern times, a barrio bonded by old customs, tradition and heritage. This same bond is what brought together the whole community to build a church in 1927, and was rewarded later with its own named park.
Artesia-Pilar (FxTROOP)
To be continued…

SANTA ANA GANGS
The Santa Ana P.D. claims that there are over 60 gangs in the city
Here’s the Lista
BARRIO CROSS WARNER
LMST LIL’ MINNIE STREET MTS MENACE TO SOCIETY
21ST TWENTY-FIRST STREET LS ASSASSINS
THIRD STREET LS THUGS
SECOND STREET SHARK SIDE LS SHARKS
C7R CALLE 7 RIFA LS DEMONS
LA SIETE LS DEAD ENDS
C6R CALLE 6 RIFA
SN SANTA NITA LS DRAMATICS
FSR FIFTH STREET DIABLOS
SAR SILVER ACRES LS DUKES
17 STREET ROAD KINGS
MS13 MIDDLE SIDE LS CHICOS
LCSA LOS CROOKS SANTA ANA BOMB SQUAD
MCST McCLAY STREET LS MAGICS
LCR LOS COMPADRES UNITED BROWNS
SLV SULLIVAN LS VAGOS
LBR LIL BROOK RIFA
CHR CALLE HIGHLAND LS SOLDIERS
BSP BISHOP STREET LS EVIL ONES
LSM LOS MENACES FAMILIA AUK + BNP
LGN LOGAN LS DOMINOES
DTR DOG TOWN RIFA
PRS LOS PERROS
D13 DELHI LS ACES
CGR CALLE GRANT RIFA
WCM WEST CALLE MYRTLE DEAD ENDS
CMLS CENTRO MYRTLE LOCOS
ESSA EAST SIDE SANTA ANA LS REBELS
EAST SIDE MAPLE STREET LOCOS
BSR BROWN SIDE LS HUSTLERS
GWR GOLDEN WEST LS STONERS
CWR CALLE WALNUT LS MALDITOS
CTR CALLE TOWNSEND LS SICK MINDED
BSSR BARRIO SOUTH SIDE RIFA LS 187 GRIM REAPERS
KPC KRAZY PROUD CRIMINALS LS MALOS
ABR13 ALLEY BOYS RIFA BROWN CROWD / CRIMINALS SIDE
WSSA WEST SIDE SANTA ANA LS TRAVIESOS
LST LYONS STRTEET LS LAST SIDERS
BSTA SMALL TOWN SANTA ANA LS BANDITS
SCM SYCAMORE STREET Ls NIGHT OWLS
SHR SICKLY HEADED LS SICKEST
NSK NON STOP KILLING LS NECIOS
OTH ON THE BLAST LS HOODLUMS
LPR LOS PRIMOS LS KABRONES
CLS CRAZY LITTLE STONERS
EVERGREEN LOKOTES
POPULAR BOYS
TPV THE PUBLIC VANDALS
LTB LATINO BOYS
EDNA PARK BOYS
W1S WICKED ONES LS VILLAINS
BIG MINNIE LS BLOCK-FOR-BLOCK GANGSTERS
DOGWOOD AVENUE LS SOLDIERS
DEF DEAD END FAMILIA LS MUERTOS
OLR OUTLAWS RIFA
KOS KNIGHTOWLS
SAB SANTA ANA BROWNS
UA UNITED ARTISTS / UNITED ASSASINS
LH LIL HOOD
HAZARD STREET
DIAMOND STREET
LOWELL STREET
SHELLY STREET
STANFORD STREET
WESTERIA BOYS
LIL’ MAFFIA
UBC UNITED BROWN CHICANOS LS CARTELS
Ls Original Cartels
Cartel Side 21.2.3
Cartel Classics
Violent Cartels
LOPERS ~ several cliques all spread out on the east side
Calle Segunda Ls Canisos
Calle Cinco Ls Chicos Malos
Chestnut Street Ls Jugadores
Minnie Street Ls Criminals
Pine Street Ls Pineros
Madison Park Ls Mad Park Originales
West Side Towners Street (1980’s)
FxTROOP RIFA with many cliques and offshoots
FxTROOP Malditos
FxTROOP Barrio Artesia
FxTROOP El Salvador Park
FxTROOP South Side
FxTROOP West Side
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