Santa Clara County · Figueroa (1833–1835)
Rancho La Polka (1833)
Granted 1833 by Gov. Jose Figueroa to Ysabel Ortega. Present-day Santa Clara County. 4,166 acres. U.S. land case ND 159: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1833 by Governor Jose Figueroa
- Grantee
- Ysabel Ortega
- Size
- 4,166 acres, 1 square leagues
- County
- Santa Clara County, California
- Period
- Figueroa (1833–1835)
- U.S. land case
- ND 159, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Martin J.C. Murphy, Mar. 3, 1860, 4,166.78 acres, General Land Office patent no. 227
Open La Polka on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (3 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Ortega 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 159, 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)
- Pala (1835)
- Rinconada De Los Gatos (1840)