Facts About Irvine
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The Gabrieleño indigenous group inhabited Irvine about 2,000 years ago. Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish explorer, came to the area in 1769, which led to the establishment of forts, missions and cattle herds.
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The Irvine city flower is the Lily of the Nile and the city insect is the Western Swallowtail Butterfly.
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the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 1971.
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Irvine hosted the first National Boy Scout Jamboree on the West Coast in 1953.
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Irvine has three public libraries: Heritage Park Regional Library, University Park Library, and Katie Wheeler Library.
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Los Angeles architect William Pereira and Irvine Company employee Raymond Watson designed Irvine’s layout of Irvine, which is nominally divided into townships called “villages”, separated by six-lane streets.
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The estimated population of Irvine is 298,739, as of 2020.
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Irvine is twinned with the following sister cities Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan; Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico & Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
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Irvine elevation is 208 feet above sea level.
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The average winter temperature is 56 degrees F & The average summer temperature is 71 degrees F.
