Alta Sierra (Spanish for "Upper Range") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Nevada County, California, United States. The population was 6,911 at the...
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Alta Sierra is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California. It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) east of Glennville...
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Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established...
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Empire, administration was split into Baja California (Lower California) and Alta California (Upper California) following the Mexican War of Independence...
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government correspondence described Alta California ("Upper California") as the areas to the west of the Sierra Nevada and the lower part of the Colorado...
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Spaniards gave the name Las Californias to the peninsula and lands to the north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became...
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The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American...
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Alta (Spanish for "Upper") is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30...
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the Californias. In 1804, the Californias were officially divided into two administrations: Alta California, based in Monterey, and Baja California, based...
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Retrieved 2016-03-24. "Alta Peak, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-24. "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved...
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Area code 530 (category Sierra County, California)
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also originally part of Alta California, also use that line for their northern boundaries. The southern boundary, between California and Mexico, was established...
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Alta Loma (Spanish for "Tall Hill") is one of three unincorporated areas that became part of the city of Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States in...
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Palóu Line. In 1804, the Spanish crown divided California into Alta ('Upper') and Baja ('Lower') California at the line separating the Franciscan missions...
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The Alta California Telegraph Company (also referred to simply as the Alta Telegraph Company) was a telegraph company which operated in the mid-19th century...
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coast of Alta (Upper) California, beginning with the Mission San Diego de Alcala near the location of the modern day city of San Diego, California. During...
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The Plains and Sierra Miwok were once the largest group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of...
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Sean Stokes (category Military personnel from California)
of the Pines, California, located on the outlying edge of Auburn. According to his father, they also lived in Alta Sierra, California when Stokes was...
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the expansion and settlement of New Spain through the formation of Alta California, expanding the empire into the most northern and western parts of Spanish...
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These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals...
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contain highlighting. In 1836, a coup led by Juan Alvarado declared Alta California's independence from Mexico. Declaring himself governor, Alvarado recruited...
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Indigenous peoples in the California genocide. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state in 1850, as a free...
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Carson River in the Carson Range and Sierra Nevada that were the last major obstacles before entering Northern California. An alternative route across the...
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acres (450 ha) of land between Pasadena and Sierra Madre for US$7 per acre. He named his ranch "Mesa Alta Rancho" and began planting 300 acres (120 ha)...
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since the California gold rush, and before numbering was known by several names including El Camino Sierra. The route of US 395 in California is split...
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High School, Rialto Alta Vista Public Charter, Adelanto Alta Vista Public Charter, Apple Valley Alta Vista Public Charter, Hesperia Alta Vista Public Charter...
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Junípero Serra (redirect from Junipero Serra Statue (California))
San Francisco, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul...
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Francisco Palóu (category History of Baja California)
on the Baja California Peninsula and in Alta California. Palóu made significant contributions to the Alta California and Baja California mission systems...
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around what is now Sonoma County in California. In June 1846, thirty-three American immigrants in Alta California who had entered without official permission...
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provinces of Alta California and Baja California as territories. With the establishment of a republican government in 1823, Alta California, like many northern...
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