Rancho Barranca Colorado

Rancho Barranca Colorado was a 17,707-acre (71.66 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Tehama County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Josiah Belden.

Belden, a naturalized Mexican citizen, received the four square league Rancho Barranca Colorado grant in 1844.

William Brown Ide (1796–1852), 49 years old, arrived at Sutter's Fort in 1845, and then went to work on Peter Lassen's Rancho Bosquejo.

Belden was a resident of San Jose in 1849, when he sold the entire rancho to the Ide family.

[3] 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.

Diseño del Rancho de la Baranca Colorada c. 1844
Ide's heirs began selling off the land shortly after the U.S. government approved the rancho patent ("Valuable Farms for Sale" The Red Bluff Beacon, April 18, 1861)