Rancho San Ramon (Pacheco-Castro)

Rancho San Ramon (St. Raymond Ranch in Spanish) was a 8,917-acre (36.09 km2) Mexican land grant in the northern San Ramon Valley of present-day Contra Costa County, California. Rancho San Ramon (Amador) was adjacent in the southern San Ramon Valley.

It was given in 1833 by Governor Jose Figueroa to Mariano Castro and Bartolome Pacheco.[1] Governor Figueroa granted Castro and Pacheco two square leagues of San Ramon Valley from the crest of the western ridge to the crest of the east. Castro had the northern square league, and Pacheco the southern.[2]

The grant included present-day Alamo, Danville and northern San Ramon.[3]

  1. ^ Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
  2. ^ Beverly Lane, Ralph Cozine, 2005, San Ramon Valley: Alamo, Danville, and San Ramon, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-3081-9
  3. ^ Diseño del Rancho San Ramon