The Weeklyexamined microfilm of every Orange County newspaper in 1938 and found 38 deaths attributed to the flood. The list: • “unidentified young white girl,” Anaheim ...

No one discusses the 1938 flood in the recent reissue of Orange County, A Centennial Celebration,an anthology by the county's major antiquarians. There are just two public monuments to the Great ...

It was a very wet year. About 20 inches of rain had already been recorded in Orange County by early March. The ground was pretty much saturated. Our family lived in La Jolla colony (which now is So… ...

Today, the 1938 Flood is known as one of the worst natural disasters in the county’s history. In total, the flood left 3700 refugees, 1500 homes declared uninhabitable, and caused more than 50 ...

In Orange County, water spread out across low-lying areas from the Santa Ana River, ... Part of the Los Angeles River had already been channelized with concrete slopes before the 1938 flood, ...

Yet the only explicit monuments to the Great Flood of 1938 are in northern Orange County, in places like Atwood. So I made it a point to visit them on a stormy day.

The flood of March 1938 inundated parts of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties with water due to storms that pounded the area from Sunday Feb. 27 to Friday March 4.