Edenvale was once a town, named with reference to the Garden of Eden, because of the beauty and fertility of the place.

The Union Pacific Railroad and historic Monterey Road runs through the area, which is also known as El Camino Real.

The railroad line carries Amtrak's "Coast Starlight."

The most popular recent history of the neighborhood includes Frontier Village, which was an amusement park operated from 1961 to 1980.

It is bound by Seven Trees to its north, Blossom Valley to its south/west, Santa Teresa to its south/east, and the Silver Creek Hills to its east.