Orange County · Figueroa (1833–1835)
Rancho Los Cerritos (1834)
Granted 1784 by Gov. Jose Figueroa to Manuela Nieto. Present-day Orange County. 27,654 acres. U.S. land case SD 017: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1834 by Governor Figueroa
- Grantee
- Manuela Nieto
- Size
- 27,654 acres, 5 square leagues
- County
- Orange County, California
- Period
- Figueroa (1833–1835)
- U.S. land case
- SD 017, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Juan Temple, Dec. 7, 1867, 27,654.36 acres, General Land Office patent no. 467
Open Los Cerritos 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 017, 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)
- Las Bolsas (1784)
- Santiago De Santa Ana (1810)