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Ord was in [[California]] when the [[California Gold Rush|gold rush]] began, with its resultant skyrocketing prices. Since their military salaries no longer covered living expenses, Ord's commander suggested that the younger officers take on other jobs to supplement their income. In the fall of 1848, Ord and Sherman, in the employ of [[John Augustus Sutter, Jr.]], assisted Captain William H. Warner of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the survey of [[Sacramento, California]], helping to produce the map that established the future capital city's extensive downtown street grid. Ord also produced a map of the Gold and Quicksilver district of California dated July 25, 1848. Later, [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] officials needed to have a survey of the public lands in order to sell them, and Ord was hired as the surveyor. He chose [[William Rich Hutton]] as his assistant, and together the two mapped Los Angeles in July and August 1849. Thanks to the efforts of these two men, historians have a fairly good view of what the [[Pueblo de Los Angeles]] looked like at the middle of the 19th century. Lieutenant Ord surveyed the pueblo and his assistant Hutton sketched many scenes of the pueblo and drew the first map from Ord's survey.<ref>Marschner 2000, p. 49</ref> The Los Angeles City Archives has the original map produced by Hutton from Ord's survey. Ord was paid $3000 for his work on this survey. La Reina De Los Angeles, published in 1929, states that Ord was offered 160 acres of public land and 10 building sites all in the present downtown business district but accepted the $3000 instead.
Ord was promoted to [[Captain (United States)|captain]] in 1850, while serving in the [[Pacific Northwest]]. He married Mary Mercer Thompson on October 14, 1854, and they eventually had thirteen children. One of their notable children was [[Jules Garesche Ord]], who was killed in action after reaching the top of [[San Juan Hill]] in Cuba. He was the officer who started and led the charge which Teddy Roosevelt followed. Another was [[Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II]], who was also a [[United States Army]] [[Major (United States)|Major]] who served with the [[22nd Infantry Regiment (United States)|22nd Infantry Regiment]] during the [[Indian Wars]], the [[Spanish–American War]] and the [[
In 1859, while attending artillery school at [[Fort Monroe, Virginia]], Ord was summoned by [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[John B. Floyd]] to quell [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]'s raid on the [[Harpers Ferry]] Federal arsenal. However, [[Colonel (United States)|Col.]] [[Robert E. Lee]] reached Harpers Ferry first, and Colonel Lee telegraphed to Captain Ord that the situation was under control and Ord and his men would not be needed at Harpers Ferry. They were instructed to halt at [[Fort McHenry]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]].
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