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"California in 1846" map shows geographic distribution of Spanish and Mexican land grants Mexican land grants of Tehama County, California (Bureau of Land Management map, 1997) These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals ...
Spain made about 30 concessions between 1784 and 1821. Mexico issued about 270 land grants between 1833 and 1846. The ranchos established permanent land-use patterns. The rancho boundaries became the basis for California's land survey system, and are found on modern maps and land titles.
Pages in category "Ranchos of California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 470 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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
New Hampshire: New Hampshirite New Hampshireman or New Hampshirewoman, Granite Stater, Granite Boys [42] New Jersey: New Jerseyan New Jerseyite New Mexico: New Mexican Spanish: Neomexicano, neomexicana, Neomejicano, neomejicana [43] New York: New Yorker Knickerbocker [44] [45] Spanish: Neoyorquino, neoyorquina North Carolina: North Carolinian
The historic Spanish and Mexican Ranchos that were located in present-day Monterey County, California Further information: Ranchos of California and List of Ranchos of California Pages in category "Ranchos of Monterey County, California"
City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
Ojo de Vaca was a watering place on the old trail between Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico to the Santa Rita copper mines.When Cooke's Mormon Battalion was searching for a wagon route between the Rio Grande and California, they intercepted the old Mexican road at this spring, then followed it southward to Guadalupe Pass then westward and northward to Tucson, pioneering the route known as Cooke's Wagon ...