Rancho Los Cerritos was a 27,054-acre (109.48 km) 1834 land grant in present-day southern Los Angeles County and Orange County , California The grant was the result of a partition of the Rancho Los Nietos grant. "Cerritos" means "little hills" in Spanish. The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos , Paramount , Bellflower and Long Beach .
5-504: At the request of Manuel Nieto heirs, governor José Figueroa in 1834, officially declared the 167,000-acre (680 km) Rancho Los Nietos grant under Mexican rule and ordered its partition into five smaller ranchos: Las Bolsas , Los Alamitos , Los Cerritos, Los Coyotes , and Santa Gertrudes . Manuela Nieto (daughter of Manuel Nieto) and her husband Guillermo Cota received Los Cerritos. Jonathan Temple married Rafaela Cota in 1830, and in 1843, he purchased Rancho Los Cerritos from
10-565: The Gaspar de Portolà expedition of 1769. He served in the Royal Army in the province of Alta California. Jose Manuel Perez-Nieto was first mentioned as a soldier of the Presidio of Monterey, in 1773. Presidio soldiers were permitted to raise cattle for food and make a small profit. As his cattle numbers increased, the need for more grazing land was required. In 1784, he was granted a provisional grant of
15-747: The Cota family. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Los Cerritos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852 and Temple received the US patent for the rancho in 1867. Following the drought of 1863–64, Temple sold
20-753: The land that would become Rancho Los Nietos by Pedro Fages , the governor of Alta California . The original grant was 300,000 acres (1,200 km ), but in 1785 Father Sanchez from the San Gabriel Mission contested the Nietos grant on the grounds that it encroached upon the southern portion of their property. A decision in favor of the mission was reached and Rancho Los Nietos was reduced to nearly half of its original size, but still leaving Corporal Nieto with 167,000 acres (680 km ). Nieto retired from duty and settled down on his rancho with his family. A small community called Los Nietos gradually built up around
25-691: The rancho to Flint, Bixby & Co. in 1866. 33°49′48″N 118°10′12″W / 33.830°N 118.170°W / 33.830; -118.170 Manuel Nieto (soldier) Jose Manuel Nieto (1734–1804) was a soldier from the Presidio of San Diego who was assigned to the Mission San Gabriel at the time his land was granted by the Spanish Empire in 1784. Nieto was a mulatto , born in Sinaloa , Mexico in 1734. He came to Alta California with
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