Rancho Castac

[1] The rancho in the Tehachapi Mountains lay between Castac Lake on the south and the present Grapevine on the north and included what is now the community of Lebec.

The word Castac is derived from Kashtiq, the Chumash-language name that the Chumash people gave to the area nearby.

The title to Rancho Castac was granted by Governor Micheltorena in 1843 to schoolteacher and government official José María Covarrubias.

With the cession of California to the United States after the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that existing land grants would be honored.

[7] Bishop sold the land to Robert Symington Baker, who in 1866 resold it to Edward Beale.