Ventura County · Spanish era grants (to 1821)
Rancho Simi (1795)
Granted 1795 by Gov. Borica to Patricio Javier y Miguel Pico. Present-day Ventura County. 113,009 acres. U.S. land case SD 103: Confirmed.
- Granted
- 1795 by Governor Borica
- Grantee
- Patricio Javier y Miguel Pico
- Size
- 113,009 acres
- County
- Ventura County, California
- Period
- Spanish era grants (to 1821)
- U.S. land case
- SD 103, Board of Land Commissioners, 1852
- Adjudication
- Confirmed
- U.S. patent
- issued to Jose de la Guerra y Noriega, June 29, 1865, 113,009.21 acres, General Land Office patent no. 400
Open Simi on the interactive boundary map, where the grant is drawn against its neighbours.
Diseños
The hand-drawn grant maps filed with this claim (1 held).
Family
The grantee belongs to the Pico 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 103, Bancroft Library (digicoll)
Other grants in Ventura County
- El Rincon (Arellanes) (1834)
- Canada Larga Verde (1841)
- Canada De San Miguelito (1845)
- Sespe No. 1 (1833)
- Calleguas (1837)
- Santa Clara Del Norte (1837)
- Santa Ana (1837)
- Las Posas (1834)
- Sespe No. 2 (1833)
- Ojai (1837)
- Santa Paula Y Saticoy (1843)
- Conejo (1803)
- Guadalasca (1836)
- San Francisco (1839)