Rancho el Corte de Madera was a 13,316-acre (53.89 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Máximo Martínez.[1] The name translates as "the place where lumber is cut". The roughly triangular shaped grant was west of today's I-280, and bounded on the north by Alambique Creek and San Francisquito Creek, on the south by Los Trancos Creek and Matadero Creek, and on the west by what is now Skyline Boulevard. The grant surrounded Rancho Cañada del Corte de Madera which extended along the Portola Valley. The land grant included parts of present day Woodside, Ladera and Stanford University.[2][3][4]
^Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
^Diseño del Rancho Corte de Madera
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Corte de Madera
^Early Santa Clara Ranchos, Grants, Patents and Maps
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Preserve Coal Creek Open Space Preserve El CortedeMadera Creek Open Space Preserve (see also El CortedeMadera Creek) El Sereno Open Space Preserve Foothills...
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