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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 ...
The Cucamonga Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, in San Bernardino County, Southern California. The 12,781 acres (5,172 ha) wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service in Angeles National Forest and San Bernardino National Forest. Elevations range from about 5,000 to ...
The San Gabriel Mountains (Spanish: Sierra de San Gabriel) comprise a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. [1] The mountain range is part of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and ...
The Casa de Rancho Cucamonga, commonly known as the John Rains House, is a historic house located at 8810 Hemlock St. in Rancho Cucamonga, California. [2][3][4] The house was built in 1860–1861 after John Rains purchased the Rancho Cucamonga land grant in 1858 from the Tapia estate. The brick house featured its own cooling system, which used ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
Alta Loma (Spanish for "Tall Hill") is one of three unincorporated areas that became part of the city of Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States in 1977. [ 1 ] The community is located at 34°09′N117°36′W34.15°N 117.60°W in the foothills of the south face of the San Gabriel Mountain range, near Cucamonga Peak and Mount San Antonio ...
Rancho Cucamonga (/ ˌræntʃoʊ kuːkəˈmʌŋɡə / RAN-choh KOO-kə-MUNG-gə) is a city located just south of the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and Angeles National Forest in San Bernardino County, California, United States. About 37 mi (60 km) [12] east of Downtown Los Angeles, Rancho Cucamonga is the 28th most populous city in ...
Rancho Cucamonga. Rancho Cucamonga was a 13,045-acre (20.383 sq mi; 52.79 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Bernardino County, California, given in 1839 to the dedicated soldier, smuggler and politician Tiburcio Tapia by Mexican governor Juan Bautista Alvarado. [1] The grant formed parts of present-day California cities Rancho ...