Rancho Santa Clara del Norte was a 13,989-acre (56.61 km2) Mexican land grant on the Oxnard Plain in present-day Ventura County, California.
[1] The grant extended along the south bank of the Santa Clara River, east of present-day Oxnard and encompasses El Rio.
the main ranch house (1860) of what remains of Rancho Santa Clara del Norte is located near the Saticoy Golf Club at the intersection of the 118 highway and Rose Street.
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] Following the droughts in 1864, Sánchez sold Rancho Santa Clara del Norte to the Schiappa Pietra brothers, natives of Italy.