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Anaheim is a city in Orange County. As of 2007, the city populus was 345,556, making it the tenth-largest city in California and 54th-largest in the US. The city anticipates that the populus will surpass 400,000 by 2014 due to rapid development in its "Platinum Triangle" area as well as in the affluent Anaheim Hills area. Anaheim is the second most thickly settled city in Orange County (behind Santa Ana) and second largest in terms of land area, and it is known for its theme parks, sports teams, and convention center.

Founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated on February 10, 1870, Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts, and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland Resort, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which opened in 1955, Angel Stadium, Honda Center, and Anaheim Convention Center, the largest convention center on the US West Coast and the Anaheim Visitor Center is adjacent to the Convention Center. Its name is a blend of "Ana", after the nearby Santa Ana River, and "heim", a common Upper German place name compound originally meaning "home".

Settlers voted to call the community Annaheim, meaning "home by the Santa Ana river" in German. The name later was changed slightly, to Anaheim. To the Spanish-speaking neighbors, the settlement was known as Campo Alemán (Spanish for German Camp). The grape industry was annihilated in the 1880s by an insect pest. Other crops - walnuts, lemons, and of course oranges soon filled the void.

In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan, at the height of its influence and popularity, decided to make Anaheim a model Klan city. In 1924, the Klan secretly managed to get four of its members elected to the 5-member Board of Trustees. Nine of the ten members of the police force were also Klansmen. The four Klan trustees served for nearly a year, until they were publicly exposed, and voted out in a recall election in which 95% of the populus participated.

In the late twentieth century, Anaheim grew rapidly in populus. Today, Anaheim has a diverse racial and ethnic composition.

Anaheim is located at 33°50`10?N, 117°53`23?W (33.836165, -117.889769).