Los Angeles County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho San Rafael (1784)
Granted 1784 by Gov. Pedro Fages to Jose Maria Berdugo. Present-day Los Angeles County. 36,403 acres. U.S. land case SD 381: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1784 by Governor Pedro Fages
- Grantee
- Jose Maria Berdugo
- Size
- 36,403 acres, 8 square leagues
- County
- Los Angeles County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- SD 381, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Julio Verdugo and Catalina Verdugo, Jan. 28, 1882, 36,403.32 acres, General Land Office patent no. 423
Open San Rafael on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (4 held).
Sources
- Boundary & land-case data: ECAI/UCSD Spanish & Mexican Land Grants (via the California Land Grants ArcGIS project)
- Land case file SD 381, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Los Angeles County
- San Pascual (Wilson) (1834)
- Los Nogales (1838)
- El Escorpion (1845)
- Canada De Los Nogales (1844)
- Cienega O Paso De La Tijera (1844)
- Cienega O Paso De La Tijera (1843)
- Tajauta (1843)
- Providencia (1843)
- San Jose De Buenos Ayres (1843)
- San Antonio Or Rodeo De Las Aguas (1838)
- Las Cienegas (1843)
- Rincon De Los Bueyes (1821)
- Azusa (Dalton) (1841)
- La Merced (1844)