In 2008, after a long battle with the city of Costa Mesa, Newport Beach annexed West Santa Ana Heights.
In 1923, Corona del Mar was annexed and in 2002, Newport Coast, East Santa Ana Heights and San Joaquin Hills, were annexed. Settlements filled in on the Peninsula, West Newport, Newport Island, Balboa Island and Lido Isle. In 1906 (with a population of 206 citizens), the scattered settlements were incorporated as the City of Newport Beach. In 1905, city development increased when Pacific Electric Railway established a southern terminus in Newport connecting the beach with downtown Los Angeles. James McFadden built a long McFadden Wharf in 1888. Meeting in Irvine's ranch house near current day UC Irvine with his brother, Robert Irvine, and friend James McFadden, they all agreed that the newly found port should be named simply, "Newport" thus where Newport Beach gets its name. James Irvine, after hearing the astonishing news, quickly traveled from his home in San Francisco to the San Joaquin Ranch. Dunnells (against warnings posted by surveyors) safely steered through the lower and upper bay of Newport where it unloaded its cargo. Anglo-American inhabitation in the area grew substantially following the events of 1870 when a 105-ton steamer named The Vaquero, captained by Captain Samuel S. The State of California sold acre-plots of land for $1 a piece in the Newport area. Present day Newport Beach exists upon the unceded homelands of the Tongva people, and they have a historical and continued presence as the traditional caretakers of the land. Throughout the 1800s, Europeans colonized the land and forcibly removed and assimilated the Tongva.
The Lower Bay of Newport was formed much later by sand that was brought along by ocean currents, which constructed the offshore beach that is now recognized as the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach.įor thousands of years, the Tongva people lived on the land in an extensive, thriving community. The Upper Bay of Newport is a canyon, which was carved by a stream in the Pleistocene period.
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