Citrus Heights
California
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City of Citrus Heights
Mission Statement
The City of Citrus Heights is committed to providing high-quality, economical, responsive services to our community.
Our Vision Statement
"Citrus Heights will be a pre-eminent city with active community involvement, comfortable neighborhoods, thriving businesses, and innovative government
History of Citrus Heights
Throughout most of the Spanish-Mexican period of the growth of California (1542-1848), settlement was limited to a narrow coastal strip along El Camino Real with only a few isolated frontier outposts of civilization. One of these outposts was the vast estate of John Augustus Sutter, a German-Swiss immigrant, who was granted 11-square leagues of land in the Sacramento Valley under the condition that he settle 12 other families on the land. One of these Mexican land sub-grants was the Ranch Del San Juan, an approximately 20,000-acre tract of rich farm land originally granted in 1844. This sub-grant included present-day Citrus Heights.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago of February 1848 officially ended the Mexican War (1846-1848) and California was ceded to the United States. The discovery of gold and the rush of 1849 that followed saw the population of the new territory increase from roughly 10,000 in 1848 to approximately 50,000 at the end of 1849. In September of 1850, California pressed the United States government for admittance into the Union and became the 31st state. California's Mexican land grant parcels were then divided up into a smaller American county-township system, with Sacramento County being one of California's original 27 counties. Townships were established throughout the county, with present-day Citrus Heights a part of Sacramento County's Central Township. Central Township had no settlements, few inhabitants, and no roads in when it was initially established.
The City of Citrus Heights is committed to providing high-quality, economical, responsive services to our community.
Our Vision Statement
"Citrus Heights will be a pre-eminent city with active community involvement, comfortable neighborhoods, thriving businesses, and innovative government
History of Citrus Heights
Throughout most of the Spanish-Mexican period of the growth of California (1542-1848), settlement was limited to a narrow coastal strip along El Camino Real with only a few isolated frontier outposts of civilization. One of these outposts was the vast estate of John Augustus Sutter, a German-Swiss immigrant, who was granted 11-square leagues of land in the Sacramento Valley under the condition that he settle 12 other families on the land. One of these Mexican land sub-grants was the Ranch Del San Juan, an approximately 20,000-acre tract of rich farm land originally granted in 1844. This sub-grant included present-day Citrus Heights.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago of February 1848 officially ended the Mexican War (1846-1848) and California was ceded to the United States. The discovery of gold and the rush of 1849 that followed saw the population of the new territory increase from roughly 10,000 in 1848 to approximately 50,000 at the end of 1849. In September of 1850, California pressed the United States government for admittance into the Union and became the 31st state. California's Mexican land grant parcels were then divided up into a smaller American county-township system, with Sacramento County being one of California's original 27 counties. Townships were established throughout the county, with present-day Citrus Heights a part of Sacramento County's Central Township. Central Township had no settlements, few inhabitants, and no roads in when it was initially established.