Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was a 63,414-acre (256.63 km2) Spanish land concession in present day Orange County, California given by Governor Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga in 1810 to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta. The grant extended eastward from the Santa Ana River to the Santa Ana Mountains, with a length of more than 22 miles. The lands encompass present day Santa Ana, Orange, Villa Park, El Modena, Tustin, Costa Mesa, and a part of Irvine, which was formerly known as Rancho Lomas de Santiago and was titled to one of the Yorbas. Juan Pablo Grijalva, a Spanish soldier who traveled to Alta California with the De Anza expedition, was the original petitioner for the lands that became known as the "Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana."