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California Land Pamphlets, Volume 4

Land Pamphlets

Volume 4 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, and the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1850s.

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 3

Land Pamphlets

Volume 3 of the California land pamphlets contains a number of reports regarding real estate in California, lands with the bounds of Old Mission Dolores, San Francisco Commission to Enquire into City Property; Commission for Settling Private Land Claims in California, treaty stipulations between Mexico and the United States, instructions of the U.S. Department of Interior to the California Land Commissioners, Regulations of the Commissioners for the Presentment and Prosecution of Claims; land titles in California and 1852 Special Report of the Surveyor General of the State of California.

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 1

Land Pamphlets

Volume 1 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, U.S. District Court and the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1850s and 1860s.

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 6

Land Pamphlets

Volume 6 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to California, travel to and mining in British America, the Truckee River water supply and distribution of interstate water, corruption around the acquisition of land in California, religious intolerance and a report of the Soldiers' Relief Fund of San Francisco.

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 5

Land Pamphlets

Volume 5 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, U.S. District Court and the Supreme Court of the State of California. Also includes reports on the old missions and villages of California, U.S. policy regarding public lands, and report on the Reclamation of Arid Lands by Irrigation.

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 2

Land Pamphlets

Volume 2 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California and the U.S. District Court, Settler's Guide re pre-emption laws, laws of Congress concerning school and land warrants, the Swamp Land Act, Military Bounty Land Act, testimony before Surveyor General for the State of California,

1976 - Mexican-American Land Tenure Conflict In California, David Hornbeck

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

This paper examines the merging of the Mexican and American land tenure systems and how the two very different concepts of land acquisition, organization and maintenance clashed resulting in a distinctive settlement pattern not usually associated with Anglo settlement. The Mexican landscape, organized according to centuries of Spanish tradition, was the antithesis of the type established by the westward moving American pioneer. Spatial differences were many, particularly in the areas of agriculture, settlement, transportation, space economy and land tenure.

1970 - Geology Of Southern Monterey Bay And Its Relationship To The Groundwater Basin And Salt Water Intrusion

State and Federal Documents Relating to Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

This report discussed the preliminary results of a U.S. Geological Survey and the State of California joint investigation of Monterey Bay. The objective of the survey was to delineate the groundwater basin offshore, to determine the distribution and locations of fresh water aquifers by locating areas in the Monterey Submarine Canyon and the ocean bottom in Monterey Bay where aquifers might outcrop and thus be areas of entrance for seawater. The report noted that since the early 1940s continuous heavy pumping along the coastal area of the Salinas Valley had depleted the groundwater storage and lowered the piezometric levels to …

1971 - Dwr Bulletin 176, Land Use In California, An Index To Surveys Conducted By The California Department Of Water Resources 1950-1970

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The purpose of the 1971 California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Bulletin No. 176 was to bring the wealth of land information assembled by the DWR over a 20-year period to the attention of public and private planning groups. The DWR and it's predecessor agencies had conducted surveys to monitor the development of California's lands in order to determine the changing needs for water management. In the preceding 20 years, population in California had doubled, resulting in an average annual increase in urban land of more than 50,000 ares and an increase in total irrigated acreage of 20 percent. The …

1977 - Appropriative Water Rights In California, Background And Issues

Water Statutes

This paper was part of a series of background and issue papers prepared by the staff of the Governor's Commission to Review California Water Rights Law. The background material was intended to assist persons who might lack detailed knowledge of California's water rights law and procedures. The issues were listed as a basis for discussion by the public and the Commission when it considered various legislative options in response to the 1976-1977 drought which had resulted in increased attention to the value of water as a public resource.

1997 - Salinas Valley Integrated Ground Water And Surface Model Update - Final Report

Monterey County Water Resources Agency Water Reports

In order to fulfill Monterey County's need for a long-term water resources management plan to ensure good quality water, improve existing water quality, and to provide adequate water supplies, the county developed the Salinas River Basin Management Plan. The goal was to stop seawater intrusion, create a long-term balance between recharge and withdrawal, and to provide a sufficient water supply for Salinas Valley up to the year 2030. Due to complexities of the hydrologic process and their interaction on a basin-wide scale, sophisticated analytical methods and tools are used for better understand the nature and behavior of the hydrologic system, …

1992 - Selected Geological Cross Sections In Salinas Valley Using Geobase

Monterey County Water Resources Agency Water Reports

The report was prepared as part of the Salinas River Basin Management Plan. The objective was to demonstrate computer applications to data analysis in the Salinas Valley. The report presented geological cross sections and provided a hydrogeological background of the cross sections with recommendations made for future investigations.

1995 - Hydrogeology And Water Supply Of Salinas Valley, White Paper By Salinas Valley Ground Water Basin Hydrology Conference

Monterey County Water Resources Agency Water Reports

The solution to the water resource problems within the Salinas Valley had been known since at least 1946. The best solution, proposed at that time by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), recognized that sufficient supplemental water could be developed within the basin recognizing the need to transfer water from the Forebay Area to the Pressure and East Side areas. The Salinas Valley Ground Water Basin Hydrology Panel urged Monterey County Water Resources Agency to focus on completion of the extraction facilities and conveyance system similar to those outlined in the DWR Bulletin 52 in 1946; to continue studies …

1979 - The California Water Atlas

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The atlas was developed as an attempt to provide the average citizen with a single-volume point of access to understanding how water works in the State of California. It addressed treatments of every aspect of water supply, delivery, and use in California, the nature of the water environment, the changes mankind has made in that environment, the history of water development, the operation of the major natural and artificial water systems, the relationship of water pricing to water consumption, the uses of water in industry, recreation, and energy development, the problems of water quality, and the current (1979) and emerging …

2001 - State Water Resources Control Board Decision 1642 In The Matter Of Application 30532

State and Federal Documents Relating to Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

On April 23, 1996, Monterey County Water Resources Agency filed with the State Water Resources Control Board Application 30532 in order to obtain a water right for the 27,900 af of water stored in Nacimiento Reservoir which is not covered by License 7543. Permit 10137 authorized the diversion of 350,000 af of water from the Nacimiento River to storage in the Nacimiento Reservoir. The subsequent License 7543 issued in 1965 confirmed the diversion. Using more sophisticated measuring technology in the 1990s, it was determined that the actual capacity of the Nacimiento Reservoir was actually 377,900 af. The State Water Resources …

2004 - Final Report, Hydrostratigraphic Analysis Of The Northern Salinas Valley

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The Monterey County Water Resources Agency (Agency) is responsible for the management and planning of water resources within Monterey County The agency uses a network of wells to monitor groundwater conditions in the Salinas Valley ground water basin (Figure 1). The progressive advancement of the seawater intrusion front into groundwater zones and the understanding of the northern Salinas ground water basin hydrogeology have been documented by the Agency since the 1950s. Only since the late 1990s was there sufficient well logs, geophysical, and lithological data to support a three-dimensional (3-D) study of the inter-related ancestral fluvial and alluvial-fan depositional environments …

2004 - Upper Salinas River Watershed Action Plan - Final Report To The State Water Resources Control Board

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The Watershed Plan (WAP) is a comprehensive planning document, a management plan, for the use by landowners, agencies, and groups in their individual and collective efforts to improve and restore natural resources within the 2,000 square mile area of the Upper Salinas River Watershed. The planning area comprises approximately one-quarter of the watersheds that affect the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The primary objectives of the WAP are to improve water quality and to ensure adequate water resources to meet the various needs within the watershed, to foster the future well-being of agriculture, to reduce the loss of soil, to …

1980 - Department Of Water Resources Bulletin 118-80, Groundwater Basins In California

Water Statutes

A 1980 report to the California State Legislature describing 357 groundwater basins on the basis of geological and hydrological conditions with consideration of political boundary lines where practical. Noting that new groundwater management legislation was needed, the report was viewed as a basis for groundwater management.

2011 - Agricultural Resources Evaluation Handbook, Monterey County, California

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The Agricultural Resources Evaluation Handbook synthesizes three historic context statements devoted to historic agricultural resources in Monterey County’s North County Planning Area, Salinas Valley and the South County Planning Area with a goal of prioritizing the identification, evaluation, registration and treatment of certain historic properties and making the process an integral component of land use planning.

2006 - Monterey County Groundwater Management Plan

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

Monterey County Water Resources Agency, recognizing that management of its natural water resources is critical to ensuring a long-term sustainable and reliable good quality water supply, prepared this Groundwater Management Plan (GWMP). The purpose of the GWMP was to provide a comprehensive overview of the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin and to recommend various management strategies for the basin. The document provided the framework for the management of groundwater resources in the Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin (exclusive of the Seaside and Paso Robles subareas) and acted as a guidance document for future groundwater projects.

2006 - Monterey County Water Resources Agency - Reclamation Ditch Watershed Assessment And Management Strategy, Final Report

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The 2006 Watershed Assessment and Management Strategy was completed for the Reclamation Ditch Watershed in northern Monterey County, California, for Monterey County Water Resources Agency (MCWRA). The report provides an assessment of the Reclamation Ditch Watershed that incorporates the entire watershed above the Potrero Road tide gates (near Moss Landing) on the Old Salinas River Channel, excluding the influence from the Salinas River itself via the Old Salinas River Channel. The Reclamation Ditch Watershed thus includes the watersheds of: Tembladero Slough, Merritt Lake, Santa Rita Creek, Espinosa Lake,Gabilan Creek, Natividad Creek, Alisal Slough and Alisal Creek.

2016 - Dwr Bulletin 118 Interim Update, California's Groundwater

Water Statutes

This interim update provides an up-to-date to information on groundwater basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft, groundwater basin boundaries, and basin prioritization, information essential to the successful implementation of SGMA (2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act), including the timely formation of groundwater sustainability agencies and the development of groundwater sustainability plans.

1979 - The Patenting Of California's Private Land Claims, 1851-1885, David Hornbeck

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

This paper examines the basis of the land-tenure conflict, its resolution, and the subsequent patenting of 482 private land claims that covered a total of 8.5 million acres of land in California. The problem of distinguishing between Mexican land grants and the American public domain was not one that time would easily resolve.

Links To Reports And Documents Relating To Land Grants And Public Domain

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

Links to documents found in the Hornbeck Collection - Historical Land Use in California relating to land grants and the public domain.

1982 - Grants Of Land In California Made By Spanish Or Mexican Authorities

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

The 1982 California State Land Commission publication provides the historical background of landownership in California that led to the private land claims and subsequent patents issued. Contains discussion of the missions, presidios and pueblos. Provides a listing by each county of the name of the rancho (grant), patentee, patent date, patent number, watercourse, Township and Range, and the amount of acreage.

1769-1885 - Conceptual California Maps, David Hornbeck And David Fuller

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

Conceptual maps from the 1983 publication, California Patterns: A Geographical and Historical Atlas by David Hornbeck in collaboration with cartographer, David Fuller, depicting California missions, presidios, pueblos, Spanish land concessions, Mexican land grants, patented ranchos, lands granted to Anglo Surnames, major hide and tallow collection points, and mission population. The maps cover periods from 1769 (Spanish and Mexican era) through the American patenting process up to 1885.

1883 - History Of Santa Barbara County

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

This 1883 publication by Thompson & West, Oakland, California, provides a diverse account about individuals, events occurring during the early years of American occupation of California, and life in California including, but not limited to, pre-Spanish occupants, Spanish-Mexican occupancy, agriculture, discovery of gold, county government, Spanish grants, education, industry, politics.

1883 - Public Land Laws Passed By Congress From March 4,1875, To April 1, 1882, With The Important Decisions Of The Secretary Of The Interior, And Commissioner Of The General Land Office, The Land Opinions Of The Attorney General, And The Circular Instructions Issued

US Government Legislation and Statutes

An 1883 publication designed to show the development of the public land system from 1875 to 1882, presenting a repository of the important decisions of the General Land Office as well as opinions of the U.S. Attorney General and instructions to the surveyors general, registers and receivers.

1853 - Sketch Of The City Land Claim Of Santa Barbara, V. Wackenreuder

American Period Maps

An 1853 sketch by V. Wackenreuder, county surveyor, reflecting the City of Santa Barbara land claim containing 8 3/4 square leagues.

Rancho De San Pedro (Chapman), Diseño 512, Ventura (Formerly Santa Barbara) County, And Associated Historical Documents.

Santa Barbara County

National Archives Diseños - Hand-drawn Spanish-Mexican map demonstrating the physical boundaries of land granted to Mexican citizens by the Spanish or Mexican.

Work Progress Administration Abstract (WPA Abstract) – A summary document prepared in 1938 under the U. S. Work Progress Administration program detailing the history of a rancho beginning with the Spanish-American land through the U.S. patenting process.

Hoffman Table of Land Claims Appendix, Reports on Land Cases, Vol. I, 1862, Ogden Hoffman – Index of land claims, in chronological order by Diseño number, made to the U.S. Land Commission for rancho land previously granted by the Spanish/Mexican …