The rancho included parts of present-day Irvine and Tustin in what is now eastern Orange County, California.
[2][3][4] Teodosio Juan Yorba (1805–1863), the son of Jose Antonio Yorba grantee of Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, was granted the eleven square league Rancho Arroyo Seco in 1840, and the four square league Rancho Lomas de Santiago in 1846.
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 Lomas de Santiago was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[5][6] and the grant was patented to Teodosio Yorba in 1868.
Joseph E. Pleasants took charge of Wolfskill's new cattle operations.