Editing Fallbrook, California (section)

==History==
The community of Fallbrook was first settled by the [[Luiseño|Payomkawichum]] people, later called Luiseños by the Spanish missionaries who were present in the area in the late 1700s. Large village sites and oak groves were established by the Luiseños. One site in particular became the area known today as Live Oak County Park.

The first permanent recorded settlement was during the Mexican period in 1846, when Ysidro Alvarado was granted [[Rancho Monserate]] by then governor of Mexican California, [[Pio Pico]], who was residing to the west of Fallbrook where Camp Pendleton is currently located. Alvarado and Pico were second-generation Californians and San Diegans and were citizens of Mexico and the United States.

Rancho Monserate, a 13,323-acre grant stretched from the San Luis Rey River and Bonsall to the south to Stagecoach Lane and the Palomares house to the North to Mission Road to the west to Monserate Mountain to the east.

Pio's nephew and local vaquero, Jose Maria Pico, had been residing in the area now known as the Fallbrook High School during the 1860 census and his family had registered to vote in October 1868, in time for the November presidential election, the first election after the Civil War ended.

The first known image of the area was an oil painting done by James Walker in 1870 called ''Roping the Bear at Santa Margarita Rancho'', which depicts Mexican vaqueros capturing a grizzly bear.

Later, Canadian immigrant Vital Reche settled here with his family just north of Alvarado's ranch at the site now known as Live Oak Park. They named the new community Fall Brook after [[Fall Brook, Pennsylvania|their former homestead in Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fallbrookchamberofcommerce.org/community/our-history.html|title=Welcome to Fallbrook|access-date=January 25, 2016}}</ref>

Oak trees were the original primary trees in Fallbrook.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-fallbrook-group-aims-to-re-establish-native-trees-2007jun26-story.html|title=Fallbrook Group aims to re-establish Native Trees|access-date=August 4, 2017|newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune|date=June 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>''Treescape Plan for the Village Area of Fallbrook, California'' Roger Boddaert (1992) p. 5</ref>

Incorporation votes occurred in 1981 and 1987, but both votes failed.<ref>{{Cite conference| publisher = San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission| title = Directory of Special Districts in San Diego County| date = 2011| url = http://www.sdlafco.org/document/Special_Districts_Directory.pdf| access-date = 2015-04-09| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160116123845/http://www.sdlafco.org/document/Special_Districts_Directory.pdf| archive-date = 2016-01-16| url-status = dead}}</ref>

On October 21, 2007, [[California wildfires of October 2007|wildfires broke out across San Diego county]] and other parts of Southern California. By October 23, the Rice Canyon Fire had crossed [[Interstate 15 (California)|Interstate 15]] and spread into the east area of Fallbrook along Reche Road, prompting a mandatory [[emergency evacuation|evacuation]] order for all residents. As of October 23, 206 homes, two commercial properties, and forty outbuildings had burned. These figures include over one hundred homes that burned in the Valley Oaks Mobile Home Park and Pala Mesa Village condos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/5323/ca-mvu-010502_complete.pdf|website=California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention|title=Rice Fire Investigation Report}}</ref>