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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.
The pact between the Tejon Ranch Company and a coalition of environmental groups, announced in May 2008, [2] is designed to permanently protect 240,000 acres (970 km 2) of the ranch, including a vast amount outside the borders of the Tejon Mountain Village subdivision.
The Tejon Hills are a low mountain range in the Transverse Ranges, in southern Kern County, California. [1] The highest point of the hills is Comanche Mountain, at 364 feet (111 m) in elevation. They are completely within property owned by the Tejon Ranch corporation. A conservation easement is currently managed by the Tejon Ranch Conservancy.
The community is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass. Lebec is 40 miles (64 km) south of Bakersfield. [3] According to the United States Census Bureau, Lebec has an area of 15.3 square miles (40 km 2). The community, which is near Tejon Pass, lies at an elevation of 3,481 feet (1,061 m). [4]
The Tejon Pass / t eɪ ˈ h oʊ n, t ə ˈ h oʊ n, ˈ t eɪ. h oʊ n /, previously known as Portezuelo de Cortes, Portezuela de Castac, and Fort Tejon Pass is a mountain pass between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Southern California north to the Central Valley.
Fort Tejon in California is a former United States Army outpost which was intermittently active from June 24, 1854, until September 11, 1864. It is located in the Grapevine Canyon ( La Cañada de las Uvas ) between the San Emigdio Mountains and Tehachapi Mountains .
James Gorman Sr. gave his name to the rest stop in the Tejon Pass. Gorman is "one of the oldest continuously used trail and roadside rest stops in California," as the Native Americans of California "would have stopped there when it was the Tataviam village of Kulshra'jek" explains Mountain Communities historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane.
The Sebastian Indian Reservation (1853–1864), more commonly known as the Tejon Indian Reservation, was formerly at the southwestern corner of the San Joaquin Valley in the Tehachapi Mountains, in southern central California. It was located in the southwestern Tehachapis, from Tejon Creek and Tejon Canyon, west to Grapevine Canyon (Canada de ...