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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 ...
Ya Ha Tinda Ranch is a ranch in Ya Ha Tinda Valley, Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada near the Alberta side of Banff National Park. The ranch is around 40 km 2 (9748 acres, 3,945 hectares) with approximately one third being grassland and two thirds being forested. Around a thousand elk spend the winter in the ranch.
The County of Orange was established in 1889 by founders William Spurgeon and James McFadden. The City of Santa Ana became the county seat the same year. Prior to its formation, the Orange County lands were part of Los Angeles County. Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos".
The income from these crops allowed the company to grow in the 1920s. Additionally, one more land sale (comprising the land where Hearst built San Simeon), a 38,000 acre (150 km 2) ranch in 1922 to William Randolph Hearst for $1 million (to be paid in installments over ten years) helped fill the company's coffers.
Conaway Ranch is a 17,244-acre (70 km 2) property that sits to the east of both Davis and Woodland and west of Sacramento. Two-thirds of the property sits in the Yolo Bypass (the 'causeway'), the sink of Cache Creek, or the Green Zone between County Road 27 and County Road 29. Most of the ranch is currently protected by Williamson Act contracts ...
With a land area of 2.42 km 2 (0.93 sq mi), it had a population density of 93.8/km 2 (242.9/sq mi) in 2021. [ 1 ] As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Smith had a population of 148 living in 55 of its 76 total private dwellings, a change of -32.1% from its 2011 population of 218.
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Cañada de Pala was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and the grant was patented to José ...
Tejon Ranch Company (NYSE: TRC), based in Lebec, California, is one of the largest private landowners in California. [1] [2] The company was incorporated in 1936 to organize the ownership of a large tract of land that was consolidated from four Mexican land grants acquired in the 1850s and 1860s by ranch founder Edward Fitzgerald Beale.