Orange County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho Los Alamitos (1784)
Granted 1784 by Gov. Pedro Fages to Manuel Nieto. Present-day Orange County. 28,027 acres. U.S. land case SD 290: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1784 by Governor Pedro Fages
- Grantee
- Manuel Nieto
- Size
- 28,027 acres, 6 square leagues
- County
- Orange County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- SD 290, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Abel Stearns, Aug. 29, 1874, 28,027.17 acres, General Land Office patent no. 468
Open Los Alamitos on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (8 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Nieto family, one of the landholding dynasties of Mexican California.
Sources
- Boundary & land-case data: ECAI/UCSD Spanish & Mexican Land Grants (via the California Land Grants ArcGIS project)
- Land case file SD 290, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Orange County
- Potrero Los Pinos (1845)
- Boca De La Playa (1846)
- La Habra (1839)
- Canada De Los Alisos (1842)
- Niguel (1842)
- Trabuco (1846)
- Canon De Santa Ana (1834)
- San Juan Cajon De Santa Ana (1837)
- La Bolsa Chica (1841)
- Los Coyotes (1834)
- Lomas De Santiago (1846)
- Las Bolsas (1784)
- Los Cerritos (1834)
- Santiago De Santa Ana (1810)