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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
Yerba buena ("good herb" in Spanish) was the name the Spanish missionaries gave to the local wild mint species Clinopodium douglasii. It was the name of the anchorage at Yerba Buena Cove and San Francisco's first civilian town, which grew into the modern city, located at the cove. Yorba Street: José Antonio Yorba: Zampa Lane: Al Zampa
Cahuenga, the Spanish name for the Tongva village of Kawengna, meaning place of the mountain [1] César E. Chávez Avenue: César Chávez Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist [1] Crenshaw neighborhood Crenshaw Boulevard: George Crenshaw, banker and real estate developer Figueroa Avenue Figueroa Street
Tricia Anne Weber: The Spanish Missions of California; California Historical Society; National Register of Historic Places: Early History of the California Coast: List of Sites; California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856 and Finding Aid to the Documents relating to Missions of the Californias : typescript, 1768-1802 at The Bancroft Library
The city of Los Angeles, derived from the original Spanish name El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula ("The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the River of Porziuncola") Charter 9,663,345: 4,060 sq mi (10,515 km 2) Madera County: 039: Madera: 1893: Fresno
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
See Cathedral Canyon on list of topographic place names. Coachella: Corona: Corona is Spanish for crown or wreath. Originally called South Riverside, citizens wanted to distinguish their city from the larger city of Riverside to the north. When it came time to incorporate the city a number of different names were considered, but the name Corona ...