Santa Clara County · Gutiérrez · Chico · Castro (1835–1836)
Rancho Pala (1835)
Granted 1835 by Gov. Jose Castro to Jose Higuera. Present-day Santa Clara County. 4,454 acres. U.S. land case ND 233: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1835 by Governor Jose Castro
- Grantee
- Jose Higuera
- Size
- 4,454 acres, 1 square leagues
- County
- Santa Clara County, California
- Period
- Gutiérrez · Chico · Castro (1835–1836)
- U.S. land case
- ND 233, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Ellen E. White et al, Oct. 8, 1866, 4,454.08 acres, General Land Office patent no. 180
Open Pala on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (9 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Higuera 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 ND 233, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Santa Clara County
- Posolmi (1844)
- El Potrero De Santa Clara (1844)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Berryessa) (1838)
- Rinconada Del Arroyo De San Francisquito (1841)
- Rincon De Los Esteros (Alviso) (1838)
- Ulistac (1845)
- Unnamed grant (SD 325) (1839)
- San Ysidro (Gilroy) (1833)
- San Ysidro (Ortega) (1833)
- Milpitas (Alviso) (1830)
- La Purisima Concepcion (1840)
- Tularcitos (Higuera) (1821)
- La Polka (1833)
- Rinconada De Los Gatos (1840)