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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 ...
1837 Juan Alvarado: Fernando Tico 17,717 acres (7,170 ha) 168 SD Ojai: Ventura: El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Valentine Cota et al. 44,883 acres (18,164 ha) 231 SD Port Hueneme, Oxnard: Ventura: Santa Ana: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Crisogomo Ayala and Cosme Vanegas 21,522 acres (8,710 ha) 97 SD Oak View: Ventura: Santa Clara ...
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 Bolsa de las Escorpinas was a 6,416-acre (25.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Salvador Espinoza. [1] The grant was northwest of present-day Salinas, bounded on the south by today's Espinosa Lake. Espinosa Road runs east–west through the former rancho lands.
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 .
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 ...
Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana was a 35,971-acre (145.57 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Orange County, California. The grant was given in 1837 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Juan Pacífico Ontiveros. [1] The grant encompassed the present-day cities of Anaheim, Fullerton, and Placentia. [2] [3] [4]
Rancho Santa Manuela was a 16,955-acre (68.61 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Francis Ziba Branch. [1] The grant encompassed present-day Arroyo Grande .