Rancho Nojoqui was a 13,284-acre (53.76 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Raimundo Carrillo.
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 Nojoqui was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[4][5] and the grant was patented to Raimundo Carrillo in 1869.
[6] Ulpiano Yndart (1828–1902), a Basque immigrant, came to California in 1849, and bought Rancho Nojoqui in 1854.
He was ruined by the drought of 1864, but went on to a successful political career, serving as Santa Barbara city treasurer and as a commissioner overseeing the creation of Ventura County in the early 1870s.