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GLO Land Patent Maps in Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin

Land Distribution in Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties After California Became a

State

7-28-2017

1850 through Post-1925 - Public Land Survey Sections Containing 1850 through Post-1925 - Public Land Survey Sections Containing

all BLM Patents (from 1850 until after 1925) in the Salinas Valley all BLM Patents (from 1850 until after 1925) in the Salinas Valley

and Vicinity (Draft) and Vicinity (Draft)

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TOWNSHIP 24S

TOWNSHIP 25S

RANGE 20E

RANGE 19ESalinas River

Merced County

Fresno County

Santa ClaraCounty

SantaCruz

County

San BenitoCounty

MontereyCounty

Kings County

Kern County

San LuisObispoCounty

SantaBarbaraCounty

PASO ROBLESAREA

UPPERVALLEY

AQUIFER

FOREBAYAQUIFER

MONTEREY

EAST SIDEAQUIFER

LANGLEYAREA

180/400 FOOTAQUIFER

SEASIDE

ATASCADEROAREA

Lompoc

Santa MariaArroyo Grande

San LuisObispo

Morro Bay

Atascadero

Avenal

Coalinga

King CityGreenfieldSoledad

SeasidePacificGrove

Salinas

Marina

HollisterGilroy

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PUBLIC LAND SURVEY SECTIONSCONTAINING BLM PATENTS (1850 - AFTER 1925)

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Sa linas RiverRiver / Strea mSa linas River W atershed o verla ying Sa linas River Gro undwater Basin1Co a sta l W atershed o verla ying Sa lina s River Gro undwater Basin1DW R Bulletin 118 Gro undwater Basin - Sa lina s V a lleyPatents o utside Sa lina s V a lley Gro undwater Basin o r its c o ntributing watershedsPatents in watersheds c o ntributing to Sa lina s V a lley Gro undwater Basin Patents o verla ying Sa lina s V a lley Gro undwater BasinCo unty Bo unda ry

1 The watersheds sho wn b y a dashed line genera lly delineate the surfa c e area where runo ffto strea m s a nd waterp erc o lating into the la nd c a n c o ntribute to the DW R Bulletin 118 Sa linas V a lley Gro undwater Basin.

So urc es: Bureau o f La nd Ma na gem ent N a tio na l Hydro gra p hy Dataset (N HD)Ca lifo rnia GIS Atlas

N o tes:Patent lega l la nd descrip tio ns were o b ta ined fro m the Bureau o f La nd Ma na gem ent (“BLM”) a nd were m a p p ed to BLM sha p efiles o f the US Public La nd Survey (“PLS”) grid. Thus, the p o lygo nareas sho wn o n this m a p are no t the exa c t Patent la nd b o undary, but the b o undary in whic h the p atent la ys, as rec o rded in BLM o nline data a nd delinea ted by the PLS. N o c la im s to a c c ura c y o rc o m p leteness are m a de b y the BLM.Patent lega l descrip tio n lo c a tio n data fro m the BLM is m a p p ed to the Quarter-Quarter Sectio n divisio n (“Qt-Qt”) o f the PLS fo r a p p ro xim ately 94.5% o f the ava ila b le p a tent la nd descrip tio ns;5.4% o f the p atent la nd descrip tio ns were m a p p ed to the Sectio n divisio n o f the PLS; less tha n 0.1% o f the p atent la nd descrip tio ns c o uld no t b e m a p p ed to a ny Sec tio n o r were seem inglym a p p ed to the Pa c ific Oc ea n.PLS Sec tio n divisio ns are ea c h 640 a cres, while a Qt-Qt is 40 a cres within a Sectio n. Patents whic h describ e la nd a cres that are m uc h sm a ller tha n their c o rresp o nding Sectio n o r Qt-Qt are lightera nd m o re tra nsp arent; a tra nsp arent area indic a tes that the p atented la nd area lies so m ewhere within the tra nsp arent sha p e. Sim ilarly, Patents whic h describ e eno ugh a cres to fill o r a c c o unt fo r them a jo rity o f the c o rresp o nding Sectio n o r Qt-Qt are less tra nsp arent a nd darker. As a result the relative a c c ura c y o f the m a p p ing lo c a tio n is disp la yed b y the tra nsp arenc y o r darkness o f the p atentp o lygo n.So m e BLM Patents are no t c o ntiguo us a nd c o nta in la nd descrip tio ns in severa l c o unties o r in severa l lo c a tio ns within the sa m e c o unty – this is evidenc ed, fo r exa m p le, b y yello w p o lygo ns thata p p ea r o utside the gro undwater b asin b ec ause they are linked (in the sa m e Patent) to la nd that is o ver the gro undwater b asin.This dataset exc ludes Sp a nish a nd Mexic a n la nd gra nts, whic h a p p ea r o n a sep a rate m a p in this series. The series inc ludes Sp a nish a nd Mexic a n Land Grants, Patents fro m 1850-1875, Patentsfro m 1875-1900, Patents fro m 1900-1925, Patents After 1925, a nd the o verla y o f Patents fro m 1850 - After 1925.