Rancho Los Alamitos

Rancho Los Alamitos
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Long Beach Historic Landmark
The exterior house at Rancho Los Alamitos, circa July 2008.
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Location	6400 Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach, California
Coordinates	33°46′36″N 118°6′25″W / 33.77667°N 118.10694°W / 33.77667; -118.10694
Area	7.4 acres (3.0 ha)
Built	between 1800 and 1834
Architectural style	Spanish Colonial
Website	www.rancholosalamitos.com
NRHP reference No.	81000153[1]
Added to NRHP	July 7, 1981

Rancho Los Alamitos takes its name from an 1834 Mexican partition of the 1784 Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish concession, covering an area in present-day California's southwestern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County. Los Alamitos means the Little Cottonwoods or Poplars in Spanish, after the native Fremont Cottonwood trees there.

Rancho Los Alamitos originally included much of the area of present-day eastern Long Beach, all of Los Alamitos and Rossmoor, and most of Seal Beach, Cypress, Stanton and Garden Grove.^[2] It is also sometimes referred to as Bixby Ranch, after its last private owners. The early 19th century adobe ranch house still stands today, housing a museum which presents the history of the area.