Riverside County · Pío Pico (1845–1846)
Rancho La Sierra (Yorba) (1846)
Granted 1846 by Gov. Pio Pico to B. Yorba. Present-day Riverside County. 17,786 acres. U.S. land case SD 126: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1846 by Governor Pio Pico
- Grantee
- B. Yorba
- Size
- 17,786 acres, 4 square leagues
- County
- Riverside County, California
- Period
- Pío Pico (1845–1846)
- U.S. land case
- SD 126, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Bernardo Yorba, Feb. 4, 1875, 17,786.89 acres, General Land Office patent no. 485
Open La Sierra (Yorba) on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (7 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Yorba 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 126, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Riverside County
- Little Temecula (1845)
- Between San Jacinto And San Gorgonio (1843)
- La Sierra (Sepulveda) (1846)
- La Laguna (Stearns) (1844)
- Temecula (1844)
- Pauba (1844)
- San Jacinto Nuevo Y Potrero (1846)
- El Sobrante De San Jacinto (1846)
- San Jacinto Viejo (1842)
- Jurupa (Stearns) (1838)