List_of_ranchos_of_California

List of ranchos of California

List of ranchos of California

Pre-statehood land grants

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. After Mexico achieved independence, the Spanish grants became actual land ownership grants. Following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.

"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)

Alta California ranchos in Mexico

From 1773 to 1836, the border between Alta California and Baja California was about 30 miles south of the Mexico–United States border drawn by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848.

Under the Siete Leyes constitutional reforms of 1836, the Alta California and Baja California territories were recombined into a single Las Californias "department", with a single governor. 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 now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California. Since those ranchos remained in Mexico, in today's Mexican state of Baja California, the grants were not subject to review by the Public Land Commission except for Rancho Tijuan that had claimed part of its lands were on the American side of the border.

List of ranchos of California

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Grant name.
  2. [N 2]
    Date of original grant. (default sort)
  3. [N 3]
    Original grantor.
  4. [N 4]
    Original grantee.
  5. [N 5]
    Patented area.
  6. [N 6]
    US District Court (Southern District SD or Northern District ND) case number.
  7. [N 7]
    Representative present day cities.
  8. [N 8]
    Present day county, in California or Municipality in Baja California.
  9. [N 9]
    Partitioned in 1833.
  10. [N 10]
    Partitioned in 1833.
  11. [N 11]
    1819 is the date Serrano was given permission to occupy the land. No land grant was ever issued. The United States Supreme Court rejected the claim in 1866.
  12. [N 12]
    Granted on February 14, 1827, located in Alta California, south of the borders established in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that then became part of Baja California. It was south of the Rancho Tía Juana on the lands near the Misión El Descanso.
  13. [N 13]
    Granted, March 24, 1829, located primarily in the part of Alta California, south of the borders established in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that then became part of Baja California. The segment of its lands in the United States were never presented in a case before the land commission or in U. S. courts.
  14. [N 14]
    Granted in late 1829 or early 1830, located in the part of Alta California, south of the borders established in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that then became part of Baja California. Formal grant to the rancho was recorded in July 12, 1834. It was abandoned in 1837 after Kumeyaay raiders plundered it and burned the ranch house. Its title was never presented in a case before the land commission or in U. S. courts.
  15. [N 15]
    Claim rejected.

References

  1. [1]
    Shumway, Burgess M.,1988, California Ranchos: Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County, The Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA, ISBN 0-89370-935-2
  2. [2]
    William Ellsworth Smythe, San Diego and Imperial counties, California: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Volume 1, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913, p.112
  3. [3]
    "SERRANO v. UNITED STATES". Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. Archived from the original on 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  4. [4]
    Rosemary Masterson, The Machado-Silvas Family, The Journal of San Diego History, SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Winter 1969, Volume 15, Number 1, Rita Larkin, Editor.
  5. [5]
    Playas de Rosarito Capítulo XXIV, p.377 Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  6. [6]
    Date of establishment unknown. It was first mentioned in a report in 1828, as an already operating rancho with cattle horses mules and grain fields.
  7. [7]
    First known mention of this rancho is in an 1828 report on the few existing ranchos around San Diego Presidio at the time. It may have been an establishment for the presidio like the Rancho de la Nación. It was under an administrator Santiago E. Arquello in 1836-37, indicating it was not in private hands at the time, perhaps abandoned like other ranchos in the vicinity due to the raids caused by the Kumeyaay revolt.Herbert Howe Bankroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft; Volume 20: History of California, Volume 3 1825-1840, History Company, San Francisco, 1886, p.612, note;
  8. [8]
    William Ellsworth Smythe, San Diego and Imperial counties, California: a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement, Volume 1, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1913, p.403
  9. [9]
    Owned by Santiago Argüello by 1856. Sometime between 1837 and 1856 Santiago Argüello had acquired the rancho. On January 2, 1856, Santiago Argüello signed a sworn statement about the legal validity of the Mexican title of the San Pascual Rancheria. At the end of the document he signed it with a statement that indicated that he was the owner and resided at the rancho San Antonio Abad: "Given in my rancho of San Antonio Abad a Ti Juan. S. Arguello" Congressional Edition, Volume 906, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1857, Indian Affairs on the Pacific, p.117; Jan. 2, 1856, translation of a sworn statement of Santiago Arguello, witnessed by Captain, H. S. Burton
  10. [10]
    Located in Alta California, south of the borders established in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that then became part of Baja California. It was west of the Rancho Tía Juana and north of Rancho El Rosario and south of Rancho Melijo.
  11. [11]
    Never subject to Land Commission ruling. Bankroft, p.612, note
  12. [12]
    Antonio Padilla Corona, THE RANCHO TÍA JUANA (TIJUANA) GRANT, THE JOURNAL OF SAN DIEGO HISTORY, SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Winter/Spring 2004, Volume 50, Numbers 1 & 2, Iris H. W. Engstrand & Molly McClain, Editors
  13. [13]
    Lynne Newell Christenson, Ellen L. Sweet, Ranchos of San Diego County, Arcadia Publishing, 2008 p.115
  14. [14]
    Claim rejected by L. C. and Federal Southern District Court. See: Microfilm Reel 91SD, BANC MSS Land Case Files 91 SD, Finding Aid to the Documents Pertaining to the Adjudication of Private Land Claims in California, circa 1852-1904, Bankroft Library, U. C. Berkeley
  15. [15]
    "Meadows Tract". Bureau Of Land Management. Carmel Valley, California. 1866. Retrieved 2022-01-11.
  16. [16]
    Certification of ownership was given to Apolinaria Lorenzana, by the Mission San Diego. [http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84spring/jamacha.htm Stephen Van Wormer, "Legal Hocus-Pocus" The Subdivision of Jamacha Rancho, The Journal of San Diego History, SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Spring 1984, Volume 30, Number 2, Thomas L. Scharf, Managing Editor, note 21. Lorenzana, Memoirs, pp. 12-13.
  17. [17]
    Land purchased from Lorenzana and Land grant solicited by Juan Bautisa Lopez in 1836, Bancroft, History of California, Vol. III, p. 612. n.7.] Grant given to Lopez in 1839. Area Specific Management Directives for San Vicente Open Space Preserve, San Diego County, June 21, 2007, p.12]
  18. [18]
    Rancho Secuan probably was of the same dimensions of 2 square leagues as Rancho Jamacha to maximize the amount of Mission grazing land protected from the secularization law.
  19. [19]
    Grant abandoned by Lopez in 1840, for reasons unknown. Neither he nor Lorenzana applied to the U.S. Land Commission for confirmation of the grant and it became public domain. Bancroft, History of California, Vol. III, p. 612. n.7]
  20. [20]
    Jose Ynes de la Luz LINARES, Male 1800 - 1846
  21. [21]
    acreage unknown
  22. [22]
    Refused by grantee by lack of occupancy or improvement
  23. [23]
    Sold shortly after the grant was confirmed and included in the Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay grant in 1845.
  24. [24]
    Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco.
  25. [25]
    Sold soon after the grant was confirmed. Included in the Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay grant in 1845.
  26. [26]
    Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco.
  27. [27]
    Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay grant included two earlier grants Cañada de los Osos and Pecho y Islay subsequently purchased by James Scott and John Wilson.
  28. [28]
    Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco.
  29. [29]
    Woodruff Minor, Historical and Architectural Assessment, Trombras-Abreu Property, 43569–43575 Ellsworth Street, Fremont California, Community Development Department, City of Fremont, June 2006, pp.8–9. Claimants were Andrés Pico and Elias L. Beard, and John M. Horner who had bought out Alvarado's share. Claim found to be invalid by the courts in 1859. 180 land titles on the Mission lands were settled by the 1865 Act of Congress, "An Act for the Relief of the Occupants of the Lands of the Ex Mission of San Jose in the State of California". The land was surveyed and partitioned into parcels. Claimants could then buy their land back at the rate of $1.25 per acre.
  30. [30]
    The claim was filed August 14th, 1852, rejected by the Commission December 26th, 1854, and dismissed for failure of prosecution August 8th, 1860. Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco.

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