• Rancho San Mateo was a 6,439-acre (26.06 km2) Mexican land grant on the San Francisco Peninsula, in present day San Mateo County, California. It was given...
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    San Mateo (Spanish for 'Saint Matthew') (/ˌsæn məˈteɪoʊ/ SAN mə-TAY-oh) is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco...
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    San Mateo County (/ˌsæn məˈteɪ.oʊ/ SAN mə-TAY-oh), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census...
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    Rancho de las Pulgas was a 35,240-acre (142.6 km2) 1795 Spanish land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, to José Darío Argüello. The literal...
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  • Rancho San Gregorio was a 17,783-acre (71.97 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado...
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    San Mateo (CSM) is a public community college in San Mateo, California. It is part of the San Mateo County Community College District. College of San...
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    William D. M. Howard (category People from San Mateo, California)
    1854 he established his residence in a house he named "el Cerrito" on Rancho San Mateo, which he had previously purchased from the grantee Cayetano Arenas...
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  • Rancho Buri Buri (also called Sánchez Rancho) was a 14,639-acre (59.24 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in 1835...
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  • Rancho San Pedro was a 8,926-acre (36.12 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to...
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    used as an inn on the El Camino road. The mission land became Rancho San Mateo and Rancho de las Pulgas. In 1849 the output buildings also became a stagecoach...
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  • Rancho San Jose was a 22,340-acre (90.4 km2) Mexican land grant in northeastern Los Angeles County given in 1837 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to...
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    Rancho Butano was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California given in 1838 by Governor Juan Alvarado and confirmed...
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    Palo Alto, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside. Whereas the term peninsula in...
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  • Lake Merced beginning in the 1890s. Ranchos of San Francisco Ranchos of San Mateo County, California List of Ranchos of California Ogden Hoffman, 1862,...
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  • Rancho Pescadero (also called Rancho San Antonio) was a 3,282-acre (13.28 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in...
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  • Monterey County Rancho Pescadero (Gonzalez) or Rancho San Antonio, 1833, in San Mateo County Rancho Pescadero (Grimes), 1843, in Stanislaus and San Joaquin Counties...
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  • Rancho Cañada de Raymundo was a 12,545-acre (50.77 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California given August 4, 1840 to Raimundo...
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  • Rancho Corral de Tierra (Guerrero y Palomares) was a 7,766-acre (31.43 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day coastal western San Mateo County, northern...
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    Sánchez Adobe Park (category Museums in San Mateo County, California)
    rancho. California Historical Landmarks in San Mateo County Mission Dolores Outpost Mission Santa Clara de Asís Mission San Francisco de Asís Rancho San...
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    Hillsborough, California (category Cities in San Mateo County, California)
    population was 11,387 at the 2020 census. Hillsborough is located on the Rancho San Mateo Mexican land grant which was purchased by William Davis Merry Howard...
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  • Rancho Miramontes (also called Arroyo de los Pilarcitos, Miramontes Rancho de San Benito, and Rancho San Benito) was a 4,424-acre (17.90 km2) Mexican land...
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  • present-day San Mateo County, California, and San Francisco County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Jacob P. Leese. The rancho included...
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    Mountains of San Mateo County, California, situated in the rift valley created by the San Andreas Fault just to the west of the cities of San Mateo and Hillsborough...
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  • Rancho Rincón de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo was a 4,446-acre (17.99 km2) Mexican land grant, largely within present day southeastern San Francisco, California...
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  • Rancho Cañada de Verde y Arroyo de la Purísima was a 8,906-acre (36.04 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California given in 1838...
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    Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo was a 17,753-acre (71.84 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan...
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    Rancho Feliz was a 4,448-acre (18.00 km2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 30 April 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena...
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    Daly City, California (category Cities in San Mateo County, California)
    most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 104,901 at the 2020 census. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area,...
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  • San Mateo Río Hondo is the name of a town and municipality in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is part of the Miahuatlán District in the south of the Sierra...
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    on the 1856 plat maps/diseños of Rancho de las Pulgas and Rancho Cañada de Raymundo and Easton's 1868 map of San Mateo County. Raimundo, a native of Baja...
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