Rancho Las Bolsas

Rancho Las Bolsas was a 33,460-acre (135.4 km2) 1834 Mexican land grant resulting from the partition of Rancho Los Nietos, located from the coast on inland within present day northwestern Orange County, California.

The rancho lands, adjacent to the southeast of Rancho La Bolsa Chica, include the present day cities of Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Westminster.

[3] 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.

[6] A claim was filed by Maria Cleof'a Nieto Murillo and her husband Juan Jose Murillo with the Land Commission in 1852,[7] but was rejected by the commission in 1855, because the claimants failed to connect themselves with the grant to Maria Catarina Ruiz.

On appeal to the US District Court, this decree was reversed in 1857, and a US patent received for an undivided half in 1877.

Ramón Yorba, a Californio ranchero, was patented half of Rancho Las Bolsas in 1872 by the Public Land Commission .