Scripps Ranch, California, is an upscale, inland community within the City of San Diego. It is located east of Highway 15, north of the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (the original home of Top Gun) and east of Mira Mesa.
Scripps Ranch was originally a 400 acre (1.6 km²) ranch purchased by Ellen Browning Scripps for $5,000. Her half-brother, newspaper man E. W. Scripps eventually acquired 2,100 acres (8.5 km²) on which to build his winter home where he believed that the dry climate would keep him healthy. The Scripps Ranch Civic Association provides a more complete history. During the late 1970s the Ranch was sold to developers who built an upscale community of ranch style homes, hundreds of which were burned in the Cedar Fire in 2003.
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