Orange County Council

Orange County Council (#039)
Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters	Santa Ana, California
Country	United States
Founded	1921
Website ocbsa.org

Founded in 1920 as the Orange County Council,^[1] the council was formed by the merger of the North Orange Council (#037) and the Orange Empire Council (#039) in 1972. The North Orange Council was founded in 1944 as the Northern Orange County and changed its name to North Orange in 1965.^[2]

Orange County Council is one of the 20 largest councils by traditional membership in the nation. In 2008 it had over 40,000 youth members.

Organization

• Canyons District
• El Camino Real District
• El Capitan District
• Los Amigos District
• Orange Frontier District
• Pacifica District
• Portola District
• Rancho Del Mar District
• Saddleback District

Discontinued

• Ahwahnee District (realigned into El Capitan, Los Amigos and Orange Frontier districts effective August 1, 2008 ^[3]
• Santiago District

Camps

• Schoepe Scout Reservation at Lost Valley^[4] 33°21′21″N 116°34′21″W / 33.3557°N 116.5726°W / 33.3557; -116.5726 (Schoepe Scout Res)
• Newport Sea Base^[5] on the Newport Harbor 33°37′02″N 117°55′08″W / 33.6172°N 117.9190°W / 33.6172; -117.9190 (Newport Scout Sea Base)
• Oso Lake
• The Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center^[6]

Former Council Camps

• Camp RoKiLi, at Barton Flats (closed)
• White's Landing (closed)
• Rancho Las Flores at Camp Pendelton (closed)
• Camp Myford, Irvine (closed)

Order of the Arrow

The Orange County Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge, Wiatava #13, was the home lodge of the National Chief of the Order of the Arrow, Evan Chaffee, in 2007.^[7]

See also

• Randall v. Orange County Council

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• Scouting in California

References