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Rancho Santa Gertrudes was a 21,298-acre (86.19 km 2) 1834 Mexican land grant, in present-day Los Angeles County, California, resulting from a partition of Rancho Los Nietos. A former site of Nacaugna , the rancho lands included the present-day cities of Downey , Santa Fe Springs and the northern part of Norwalk .
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
Santa Clara: Potrero de Santa Clara: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: James Alexander Forbes: 1,939 acres (785 ha) 77 ND San Jose: Santa Clara: Tres Ojos de Agua: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Nicolas Dodero 176 acres (71 ha) 285 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: Los Corralitos: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Jose Amesti 15,440 acres (6,248 ha) 175 SD, 398 SD, 399 SD ...
Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos". In the case of Orange County, there is record of José Antonio Yorba and Juan Pablo Peralta (nephew) being granted Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1810, year of the commencement of the war of Mexican Independence .
Rancho San José de Buenos Ayres; Rancho San Pascual; Rancho San Pedro; Rancho San Rafael; Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica; Rancho Santa Anita; Santa Catalina Island (California) Rancho Santa Gertrudes; Rancho Sausal Redondo; Rancho Simi
The Santa Gertrudis was developed on the King Ranch in southern Texas. The name derives from the Spanish-owned estate of Los Cerros de Santa Gertrudis, where in 1851 the King Ranch was established. [3]: 290 The ranch was initially stocked with Texas Longhorn cattle.
New drilling in Rancho Palos Verdes has revealed that devastating land movement has been caused, at least partially, by a deeper slip plane — meaning a larger area could be affected.
Rancho Santa Gertrudes was owned by Lemuel Carpenter until 1859. [19] In 1859 the rancho was sold at sheriff's auction to John G. Downey and James P. McFarland. "Samuel", actually "Lemuel" but misspelled by the recorder, Carpenter was recorded as the legal possessor as late as 1862.