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The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California.
Rancho Los Gatos or Santa Rita was a 4,424-acre (17.90 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Trinidad Espinoza. [1] The grant was northwest of present-day Salinas , bounded on the north by Espinosa Lake and Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas of his brother Salvador ...
A number of ranchos remained in whole or in part in the sliver of territory of Alta California left to Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which then became part of Baja California. Rancho Tía Juana (partially in San Diego County, California) lost its claim to title to its land in San Diego County but the balance of the rancho was ...
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the grant was ...
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
Rancho Tepusquet was a 8,901-acre (36.02 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Tomás Olivera. [1] The grant extended along the Sisquoc River and encompassed present day Sisquoc and Garey , northeast of Los Alamos .
Rancho Sausal Redondo diseño (a watercolor map of land claims to be submitted to the U.S. government) showing the watershed. Rancho Sausal Redondo (Round Willow-grove Ranch) was a 22,458-acre (91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given in 1837 to Antonio Ygnacio Ávila by Juan Alvarado Governor of Alta California. [1]
served as Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1842 [13] José María Alviso: 1798–1853 Santa Clara, Province of Las Californias, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.) politician, ranchero, soldier Alcalde of San José (mayor) in 1836 and was the rancho grantee for Rancho Milpitas; founder of Milpitas, California [14] Modesta Ávila