Rincon de los Buelles Design (Diseño) pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper from U.S. District Court, Southern District, California, land case. Shows drainage, buildings, and adjoining ranchos. (Courtesy California State University Monterey Bay.)Plat of the 3127-acre Rancho Rincón de Los Bueyes, c. 1871.Map of Rincón de los Bueyes, surveyed May & June 1875. Map of the Rincón de Los Bueyes showing the subdivisions of the property of José de Arnaz (and others) recorded June 24, 1889.1888 – Official map of Los Angeles County (before Orange County succeeded in 1889)1898 – Official map of Los Angeles County1937 Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission Land Use Map with Cheviot Hills area tracts at upper left. Orange squares along Motor Avenue indicate real estate sales offices. 1896 United States Geological Survey map centered on Rancho Rincon de Los Bueyes. Black dots are structures. Cheviot Hills would be built in the area covered by the word “Rincon.”1925United States Geological Survey map centered on Rancho Rincon de Los Bueyes. Black dots are structures. Cheviot Hills would be built in the area covered by the word “Rincon.”The old Spanish and Mexican ranchos of Los Angeles County by Gerald A. Eddy for Title Insurance and Trust Company, Los Angeles; c. 1937 (courtesy Library of Congress) 1939 Ballona Valley – south(courtesy W. W. Robinson, Culver City, California: A Calendar of Events: in which is Included, Also, the Story of Palms and Playa Del Rey Together with Rancho La Ballona and Rancho Rincón de los Bueyes (Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 1941)1939 Ballona Valley – north (courtesy W. W. Robinson, Culver City, California: A Calendar of Events: in which is Included, Also, the Story of Palms and Playa Del Rey Together with Rancho La Ballona and Rancho Rincón de los Bueyes (Title Guarantee and Trust Company, 1941)c. 1939 Works Projects Administration Map with Cheviot Hills to the upper right1914 AAA map (courtesy University of Southern California. digital archives) 1919 AAA map (courtesy University of Southern California. digital archives) 1926 AAA map (Courtesy University of Southern California. digital archives)Los Angeles Pacific Railway’s “Balloon Route.” Angelenos would take the Balloon Route excursion including the Santa Monica Air Line.c. 1920-1924 Early Rail LinesLos Angeles Pacific Railway map. The Los Angeles Pacific Railway served Los Angeles and points West from 1896 until 1911, when it merged with the Pacific Electric. It included the Santa Monica airline.1944 Sanborn Fire Insurance map showing Cheviot Knolls to the lower left; Country Club Highlands above that, and Cheviot Hills to the right of Manning Avenue.1944 Sanborn Fire Insurance map showing the southern part of Country Club Highlands. Many single-family houses and a duplex had been added since 1939 (as shown in the 1939 land use map), while several lots closest to the Santa Monica Air Line remained empty.1939 Works Projects Administration land use map shows few homes near Santa Monica Air Line (purple line near bottom). The streets on the bottom left are the Cheviot Knolls tract (developed by Frank Leimert – namesake and developer of Leimert Park), where only far homes had been built. Only three homes had been built by the Air Line in the 1923 Country Club Highlands tract. The green and red at bottom center shows California Country Club, which was replaced in 1951 by California Country Club Estates.These three housing tracts (among others) came to be called the Cheviot Hills neighborhood: Country Club Highlands (1923) in blue, Cheviot Hills (1923) in yellow, and Monte-Mar Vista (1924) in magenta.
