Sandia

Sandia is on State Highway 359 twenty-two miles northeast of Alice in northeastern Jim Wells County. The site was in the Casa Blanca land grant, issued to Juan Jos? de la Garza Montemayor by Spain on April 2, 1807. The Montemayor family occupied the land until 1852. In 1896 John L. Wade purchased it and established the Casa Blanca Ranch (Wade Ranch