Check it out! Dispatch from Los Angeles

“How the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Defined our Neighborhood Boundaries”

“Today marks the anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, signed February 2, 1848 to end the war and cede 55% of Mexican territory to the United States, area we know today as California, Utah, and Nevada as well as most of New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona….

Not long after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago was signed and California became the 31st State in 1850, government parties were deployed to survey the land to designate future ownership of what were now U.S. federal territories. California had been crudely surveyed before Statehood, based on the boundaries of the Spanish and Mexican Land Grants. The earlier reports now formed the basis for the Public Land Survey System’s (the first mathematically designed system and nationally conducted register of property in any modern country) survey of California….”

(bolding added by yours truly.)