The Local History Collection of the Yorba Linda Public Library was established to collect, preserve, and make available to the public materials relating to the history of Yorba Linda, Orange County, and California.

The collection contains material of many different types including:

• Books
• Photographs
• Telephone Directories
• City Directories
• Oral History transcripts
• Maps
• Biographies of Richard Nixon
• Pamphlets
• School yearbooks
• Municipal documents
• Biographies of the Yorba family
• Scrapbooks
• News clippings and ephemeral materials
• The Yorba Linda Star (microfilm - 1920 to present)