Rancho Los Cerritos was a 27,054-acre (109.48 km2) 1834 land grant in present-day southern Los Angeles County and Orange County, California[1][2] The grant was the result of a partition of the Rancho Los Nietos grant.
The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos, Paramount, Bellflower and Long Beach.
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[5][6] and Temple received the US patent for the rancho in 1867.
[7][8] Following the drought of 1863–64, Temple sold the rancho to Flint, Bixby & Co. in 1866.