Rancho Ojai was a 17,717-acre (71.70 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Fernando Tico.
The grant encompassed present-day city of Ojai, at the foot of the Topatopa Mountains.
In 1845, Tico was granted 29 acres (0.1 km2) immediately to the west of the church at Mission San Buenaventura by Governor Pío Pico.
[3] In 1855, Tico (along with José Ramón Malo and Pablo de la Guerra) was elected to the first Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.
[4] 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.