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Rancho San Joaquín was granted in 1842 to José Andrés Sepúlveda, a famed Californio vaquero.. Rancho San Joaquin, the combined Rancho Cienega de las Ranas and Rancho Bolsa de San Joaquin, was a 48,803-acre (197.50 km 2) Mexican land grant in the San Joaquin Hills, within present-day Orange County, California.
The price of cattle rose up to $75 a head (around $1,493 today). [5] Ranchers could turn a profit driving cattle from as far as Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to California even though the Chiricahua Apaches took many cattle. [6] The ranchers would drive the cattle up California's Central Valley.
Rancho San Joaquin (also called "Rosa Morada") was a 7,425-acre (30.05 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Benito County, California given in 1836 by Governor ...
None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. 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 ...
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 San Joaquin later became part of the Irvine Ranch. [8] Mexican Rancho Niguel was located in the southeastern section of the hills. The San Joaquin Hills blind thrust may be the source of the earliest recorded earthquake in California, a large earthquake felt in what is now northern Orange County on July 28, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá. [9]
Rancho San Andrés was an 8,911-acre (36.06 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California, given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to José Joaquín Castro. [1] The grant on Monterey Bay extended from La Selva Beach on the north to Watsonville Slough on the south.
Once it crosses the Stanislaus River and enters San Joaquin County, the route is locally signed as Santa Fe Road. At this point, it continues its parallel path with the BNSF rail line. About 4.3 mi after entering San Joaquin County, the route then enters Escalon and becomes Main Street for 0.7 mi before reaching SR 120. CR J7 very briefly co ...