Orange County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho Las Bolsas (1784)
Granted 1784 by Gov. Pedro Fages to Manuel Nieto. Present-day Orange County. 33,460 acres. U.S. land case SD 208: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1784 by Governor Pedro Fages
- Grantee
- Manuel Nieto
- Size
- 33,460 acres
- County
- Orange County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- SD 208, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- General Land Office patent no. 471 (Bancroft land case file)
Open Las Bolsas on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (20 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 208, 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 Alamitos (1784)
- Los Coyotes (1834)
- Lomas De Santiago (1846)
- Los Cerritos (1834)
- Santiago De Santa Ana (1810)