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The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California. Since those ranchos remained in Mexico, in today's Mexican state of Baja ...
The ranchos established permanent land-use patterns. The rancho boundaries became the basis for California's land survey system, and are found on modern maps and land titles. The "rancheros" (rancho owners) patterned themselves after the landed gentry of New Spain, and were primarily devoted to raising cattle and sheep.
Pages in category "Ranchos of California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 470 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
Rancho Palo Alto was the smallest of the six ranchos. It is unknown exactly where or how large was Rancho Palo Alto as it did not appear on the partition map. It included the Coyote Hills and most of the Arroyo de los Coyotes , and may have been combined into Rancho Los Coyotes.
Rancho La Ballona was a 13,920-acre (56.3 km 2) Mexican land grant in the present-day Westside region of Los Angeles County, Southern California. The rancho was confirmed by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839, to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes. The Machados and Talamanteses had already been given a ...
The 1,800-acre (7 km 2) working ranch is a prime example of an early California rancho in its original rural setting. It was the source of the first commercially grown oranges in Ventura County. [5] It is one of the few remaining citrus growers in Southern California.
Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres was sold to John W. Wolfskill in 1884. In the late 1880s, the Los Angeles and Pacific Railroad (of which Wolfskill was a director) and the Santa Monica Land and Water Company partnered to run a Los Angeles to Santa Monica rail line through the ranch and lay out 800 lots for the prospective town of "Sunset".