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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.
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 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 ...
Murrieta Spring a historic spring flowing from the south bank of Cantua Creek, about 100 yards above where El Camino Viejo crossed the Creek in the San Joaquin Valley. The Spring formed a pool in the arroyo where it emerged from the foot of the western mountains southwest of the Rancho de Cantua.
The San Joaquin Hills — a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges system, located in southern Orange County, California. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
The region includes San Diego County and Imperial County, each of which borders Mexico. [1] [2] [3] Its largest city is San Diego. The Southern Border Region is adjacent to the Southern California Region, which consists of five counties (Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura). [4]
Before 1854, the main route of travel into the San Joaquin Valley had come directly north from Elizabeth Lake (originally Laguna de Chico Lopez) across the Antelope Valley, over this original Tejon Pass, and down into Tejon Canyon, and then proceeded west along Tejon Creek—into the lands of the Rancho Tejon, that had been granted in 1843 ...
In 1834, Rancho Arroyo de Las Nueces y Bolbones, aka Rancho San Miguel (present day Walnut Creek), was granted to Juana Sanchez de Pacheco, in recognition of the service of Corporal Miguel Pacheco 37 years earlier (confirmed 1853, patented to heirs 1866); the grant was for two leagues, but drawn free hand on the diseño/map, and reading "two ...