Pen's Nest

The coastal part of California (and much of the U.S. southwest) has a lot of Spanish names in somewhat similar fashion, that mean hill (Montecito), valley (La Cumbre), gulley (Arroyo), village (Pueblo) and related things like birds (Posas, Las Positas), trees (Los Arboles) as well as the saints' names (San Francisco, etc.) of the missions settlements. These are all about 200 years old, from the migration of Mexican Spaniards northward, well before before English-speakers arrived in large numbers for the 1860 gold rush. Then you get Wagon Wheel Junction and whatnot, so there's a mix of English, Spanish, and some pre-existing Native American place-names preserved in Spanish spellings.