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California Counties and maps: Your California Matches Guide
Posted on | August 11, 2008 | No Comments
County |
County seat [3] |
Established [3] |
Origin |
Etymolgy | Population [3] |
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| Alameda County | Oakland | 1853 | Parts of Contra Costa County and Santa Clara County. | Spanish word meaning a “cottonwood grove”. | 1,443,741 |  |
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| Alpine County | Markleeville | 1864 | Parts of Amador County, El Dorado County, Calaveras County, Mono County and Tuolumne County. | English word meaning “of, pertaining to, or connected with, the Alps”. | 1,208 |  |
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| Amador County | Jackson | 1854 | Part of Calaveras County. | Jose Maria Amador (1794-1883), a soldier, rancher and miner. In Spanish, the word amador means “lover”. | 35,100 |  |
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| Butte County | Oroville | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From the Sutter Buttes, which lay within the county’s borders at the time of its creation. | 203,171 |  |
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| Calaveras County | San Andreas | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From the Calaveras River | 40,554 |  |
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| Colusa County | Colusa | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From two Mexican land grants; Coluses (1844) and Colus (1845). | 18,804 |  |
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| Contra Costa County | Martinez | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Spanish for opposite coast, because Contra Costa County is across San Francisco Bay from San Francisco | 948,816 |  |
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| Del Norte County | Crescent City | 1857 | Part of Klamath County. | Spanish for Northern, because Del Norte County is the northwesternmost county in the state. | 27,507 |  |
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| El Dorado County | Placerville | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From the mythical El Dorado, The Gilded One, in relation to El Dorado County’s importance in the California Gold Rush | 156,299 |  |
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| Fresno County | Fresno | 1856 | Parts of Mariposa County, Merced County and Tulare County. | From Fresno Creek. In Spanish, Fresno means “ash tree”. | 799,407 |  |
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| Glenn County | Willows | 1891 | Part of Colusa County. | Named for Dr. Hugh J. Glenn (1824-1883), a California businessman and politician | 26,453 |  |
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| Humboldt County | Eureka | 1853 | Part of Trinity County. | From Humboldt Bay, named for Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a Prussian naturalist and explorer | 126,518 |  |
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| Imperial County | El Centro | 1907 | Part of San Diego County.[4] | From the Imperial Valley, which tooks its name from the Imperial Land Company | 142,361 |  |
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| Inyo County | Independence | 1866 | Parts of Mono County and Tulare County. | From a Native American word for dwelling place of the great spirit | 17,945 |  |
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| Kern County | Bakersfield | 1866 | Parts of Los Angeles County and Tulare County. | From the Kern River, named for Edward Kern, cartographer for General John C. Fremont’s 1845 expedition | 661,645 |  |
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| Kings County | Hanford | 1893 | Part of Tulare County. | From the Kings River | 129,461 |  |
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| Lake County | Lakeport | 1861 | Part of Napa County. | From Clear Lake. | 58,309 |  |
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| Lassen County | Susanville | 1864 | Parts of Plumas County and Shasta County, and part of now defunct Lake County, Nevada. | Named for Peter Lassen (1800-1859), a native of Denmark and an early explorer of the area. | 33,828 |  |
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| Los Angeles County | Los Angeles | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Spanish for the angels | 9,519,338 |  |
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| Madera County | Madera | 1893 | Part of Fresno County. | Spanish for wood | 123,109 |  |
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| Marin County | San Rafael | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Disputed | 247,289 |  |
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| Mariposa County | Mariposa | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties.[5] | Spanish for butterfly | 17,130 |  |
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| Mendocino County | Ukiah | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From Cape Mendocino, named probably for either Antonio de Mendoza or Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, viceroys of New Spain | 86,265 |  |
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| Merced County | Merced | 1855 | Part of Mariposa County. | From the Merced River, or in Spanish El Río de Nuestra Señora de la Merced (River of Our Lady of Mercy); named in 1806 by an expedition headed by Gabriel Moraga | 210,554 |  |
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| Modoc County | Alturas | 1874 | Part of Siskiyou County. | From the Native American Modoc people | 9,449 |  |
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| Mono County | Bridgeport | 1861 | Parts of Calaveras County, Fresno County and Mariposa County. | - | 12,853 |  |
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| Monterey County | Salinas | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From Monterey Bay. The name itself is composed of the Spanish words monte (hill) and rey (king) | 401,762 |  |
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| Napa County | Napa | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 124,279 |  |
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| Nevada County | Nevada City | 1851 | Part of Yuba County. | - | 92,033 |  |
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| Orange County | Santa Ana | 1889 | Part of Los Angeles County. | From the citrus fruit widely grown in the region at the time the county was formed | 2,846,289 |  |
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| Placer County | Auburn | 1851 | Parts of Sutter County and Yuba County. | - | 307,004 |  |
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| Plumas County | Quincy | 1854 | Part of Butte County. | For the Feather River, “Plumas” meaning “feathers” in Spanish | 20,824 |  |
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| Riverside County | Riverside | 1893 | Parts of San Bernardino County and San Diego County. | From the city of Riverside being alongside the Santa Ana River | 1,545,387 |  |
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| Sacramento County | Sacramento | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | From the Sacramento River, itself named for the Santisimo Sacramento (Spanish for Most Holy Sacrament) a reference to the Eucharist | 1,223,499 |  |
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| San Benito County | Hollister | 1874 | Part of Monterey County. | - | 53,234 |  |
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| San Bernardino County | San Bernardino | 1853 | Part of Los Angeles County. | Named for Saint Bernardino of Siena | 1,709,434 |  |
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| San Diego County | San Diego | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Named for San Diego Bay, itself named for Saint Didacus of Alcalá, or San Diego de Alcalá in Spanish | 2,813,833 |  |
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| San Francisco County | San Francisco | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), a Roman Catholic saint and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) | 776,733 |  |
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| San Joaquin County | Stockton | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 563,598 |  |
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| San Luis Obispo County | San Luis Obispo | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop. | 246,681 |  |
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| San Mateo County | Redwood City | 1856 | Part of San Francisco County. | - | 707,161 |  |
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| Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Spanish for Saint Barbara | 399,347 |  |
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| Santa Clara County | San Jose | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 1,682,585 |  |
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| Santa Cruz County | Santa Cruz | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 255,602 |  |
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| Shasta County | Redding | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 163,256 |  |
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| Sierra County | Downieville | 1852 | Part of Yuba County. | - | 3,555 |  |
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| Siskiyou County | Yreka | 1852 | Parts of Shasta County and Klamath County. | County named after Siskiyou Mountain Range; etymology of Siskiyou is disputed | 44,301 |  |
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| Solano County | Fairfield | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 394,542 |  |
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| Sonoma County | Santa Rosa | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 458,614 |  |
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| Stanislaus County | Modesto | 1854 | Part of Tuolumne County. | - | 446,997 |  |
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| Sutter County | Yuba City | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | Named for Johann Augustus Sutter (a.k.a. John Sutter) (1803–1880), a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush | 78,930 |  |
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| Tehama County | Red Bluff | 1856 | Parts of Butte County, Colusa County and Shasta County. | - | 56,039 |  |
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| Trinity County | Weaverville | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 13,022 |  |
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| Tulare County | Visalia | 1852 | Part of Mariposa County. | - | 368,021 |  |
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| Tuolumne County | Sonora | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 54,501 |  |
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| Ventura County | Ventura | 1872 | Part of Santa Barbara County. | Abbreviation of San Buenaventura, Spanish for St. Bonaventure. | 753,197 |  |
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| Yolo County | Woodland | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 168,660 |  |
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| Yuba County | Marysville | 1850 | One of the twenty-seven original counties. | - | 71,938 |  |