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    The Honor Rancho Oil Field (also Honor Rancho Natural Gas Storage Field, Honor Rancho Underground Storage Facility) is an approximately 600-acre oil field...
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    1951 Texaco discovered oil on the jail's property. Oil derricks still operate on prison land, as part of the Honor Rancho Oil Field. A cogeneration plant...
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    Canyon Road. Drilling continues to occur in Santa Clarita at the Honor Rancho Oil Field. The Saugus Cafe was established in 1886 near the present-day intersection...
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    portion of the fault (Castaic Hills Oil Field), and reverse/thrust in the southeast (southeast of Honor Rancho Oil Field). The San Gabriel Fault moves at...
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    Gilmore Field. Ranchos of California List of Ranchos of California List of rancho land grants in Los Angeles County, California Diseño del Rancho La Brea...
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    Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was filed with the Public...
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    heavy oil fractions called gilsonite, which seeps from the earth as oil. Crude oil seeps up along the 6th Street Fault from the Salt Lake Oil Field, which...
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    portion of the Bixby Ranch property. Later oil discoveries from the Long Beach Oil Field continued to fund the rancho. The historic ranch house, surrounding...
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    being the La Goleta Gas Field west of Santa Barbara, Honor Rancho near Newhall, and Playa del Rey. Oil production on the field continues from 32 active...
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  • William Warren Orcutt (category Union Oil Company of California)
    Horticultural Center Rancho Sombra del Roble". Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. Retrieved September 23, 2012. W. W. Orcutt. "Early Oil Development...
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    "Description & History of Castaic Area Oil Fields, 1954: Castaic Hills, Castaic Junction, Del Valle, Honor Rancho". SCVHistory.com. Retrieved January 31...
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    Burton E. Green (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
    Amalgamated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction. After drilling for oil and...
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    the rancho. The year 1921 marked the first drilling for oil at Dominguez Hill, on the northwest side of the Rancho San Pedro (also called Rancho Domínguez)...
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    Oil Field in 1893, the Beverly Hills Oil Field in 1900, the Salt Lake Oil Field in 1902, and many others. The discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field in...
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    oil and gas fields repurposed as gas storage. The four are, in order from largest to smallest, the Aliso Canyon field, north of Porter Ranch; Honor Rancho...
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    Empire's King Carlos III granted Rancho Los Nietos to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto. The Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos were divided from this...
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    Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Cañada de San Miguelito was filed with the...
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    Ferrell first attended school at Culverdale Elementary and later attended Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, both in Irvine. He attended University High School...
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    significant connections to the nearby oil fields Oxnard Oil Field and the West Montalvo Oil Field. The high density of oil, industry, and agricultural activities...
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  • Place Name Source La Brea Avenue La Brea, the Spanish name for the oil fields near present-day Hancock Park, meaning tar Lankershim Boulevard Isaac B....
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  • The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific...
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  • Thumbnail for La Goleta Gas Field
    (SoCalGas), a division of Sempra Energy, with the others being Aliso Canyon, Honor Rancho and Playa del Rey. It is the oldest storage facility of the four and...
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    range, by Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and the remnant Inglewood Oil Field. Further north, La Brea passes through Crenshaw and the West Adams neighborhood...
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    "Mural Project" with commissions for the U.S. Potash Company and Standard Oil, with some days reserved for personal work. While in New Mexico for the project...
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  • Thumbnail for Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area
    area was part of the Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of California era, with the Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes and Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera in and...
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  • 2024). "Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance sets fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe". KNSD. Retrieved August 26, 2024. Regimbal, Alec (September 6...
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    entire Rancho Ojai in 1853. The rancho changed hands several more times before it was purchased in 1864 by Thomas A. Scott, a Pennsylvania oil and railroad...
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    (147 km2) Rancho San Rafael, granted to Jose Maria Verdugo by the Spanish Bourbon government in 1784, and the 4,063-acre (16.44 km2) Rancho Providencia...
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  • Second", second Standard Oil refinery on the West Coast located here) Encinitas, California ("Little Oaks") Escalante, Utah (in honor of Silvestre Vélez de...
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    the Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro, a tract of over 75,000 acres (300 km2), to soldier Juan José Domínguez. The rancho changed in size over the...
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