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San Diego: Guejito y Cañada de Paloma: 1845 Pio Pico: Jose Maria Orozco 13,299 acres (5,382 ha) 84 SD Escondido: San Diego: de la Nación: 1845 Pío Pico: John (Don Juan) Forster: 26,632 acres (10,778 ha) 246 SD National City: San Diego: San Dieguito: 1845 Pío Pico: Juan María Osuna: 8,824 acres (3,571 ha) 92 SD Rancho Santa Fe: San Diego ...
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]
San Miguel (Spanish for "St. Michael") is a unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,336. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,336.
Miguel Avila (1796 – 1874) was a son of Jose de Santa Ana Avila, a Spanish soldier stationed at the presidio of Santa Barbara. In 1816 Miguel Avila was in the Monterey company, and in 1824 he was corporal of the guard at Mission San Luis Obispo. In 1826 he was transferred to Monterey for quarreling with the mission priests. In Monterey, he ...
Rancho San Miguel was a 6,663-acre (26.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to William Marcus West. [1] The grant was located north of present-day Santa Rosa, between Mark West Creek and Santa Rosa Creek, and encompassed present-day Mark West and Mark West Springs. [2] [3]
The Spanish Crown granted the 75,000 acres (300 km 2) of land to soldier Juan José Domínguez in 1784, with his descendants validating their legal claim with the Mexican government at 48,000 acres (190 km 2) in 1828, and later maintaining their legal claim through a United States patent validating 43,119 acres (174.50 km 2) in 1858.
San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, [1] is a 29-mile (47 km) long stream in Orange and Riverside Counties, draining a watershed of 133.9 square miles (347 km 2). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Its mainstem begins in the southern Santa Ana Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest .
Rancho Panoche de San Juan y Los Carrisalitos was a 22,175-acre (89.74 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Merced County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Julian Ursua and Pedro Romo. [1] The name means "raw sugar of San Juan and the little patches of reeds" in Spanish.