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Rancho Milpitas

This article is about the Rancho in Santa Clara County. For the rancho in Monterey County, see Rancho Milpitas (Pastor).
Plat (map) of the Milpitas Rancho, 1862

Rancho Milpitas was a 4,458-acre (18.04 km2) Mexican land grant in Santa Clara County, California.[1][2] The name comes from the Nahuatl "milpan", a term meaning "in the field". Therefore, Milpitas could be translated as "little fields". The grant included what is now the city of Milpitas.

  1. ^ Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Milpitas

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