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Information Updated: Feb 11, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of Los Angeles County. Established: xx-xxx-1853 |
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County Seat: San Bernardino, California County history - San Bernardino County is named in honor of Saint Bernardino of Siena, it is the largest county in the continental United States. |  |
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Information Updated: Oct 17, 2011 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: San Diego, California County history - San Diego County is named for San Diego Bay, itself named for Saint Didacus of Alcal", or San Diego de Alcal" in Spanish. |  |
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Information Updated: May 6, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic in 1778 [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: San Francisco, California County history - San Francisco County was origionally named Yerba Buena (meaning "good grass", in Spanish) was renamed San Francisco in 1847. Named in honor of St. Francis of Assissi. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi"d (6,688.4 people/km"d). It is the second-most densely-settled city in the United States. |  |
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Information Updated: Feb 11, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Stockton, California County history - San Joaquin County is named in honor of Saint Joachim , who was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God", in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of Saints Joachim and Anne appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James. The County's name is Spanish for Saint Joachim. |  |
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Information Updated: Aug 8, 2011 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: San Luis Obispo, California County history - San Luis Obispo County is named in honor of Saint Louis of Toulouse (February 1274 - 19 August 1297) was a cadet of the royal French house of Anjou who was made a Catholic bishop. The County name is Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop. |  |
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Information Updated: May 5, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of San Francisco County. Established: xx-xxx-1856 |
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County Seat: Redwood City, California County history - San Mateo County is named in honor of Matthew the Evangelist, Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: who was, according to Christian tradition, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the four Evangelists. The county name is Spanish for Saint Matthew. |  |
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Information Updated: Apr 16, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Santa Barbara, California County history - Santa Barbara County is named in honor of Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara (3rd century - December 4, 306), who was a Christian saint and martyr. Although there is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings, nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology, veneration of her was common from the seventh century. Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from the liturgical calendar of the Roman rite in 1969. However, she continues to be a popular saint in modern times, perhaps best known as the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives because of her old legend's association with lightning, and also of mathematicians. |  |
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Information Updated: May 5, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: San Jose, California County history - Santa Clara County is named, using the Spanish words for Saint Clare, also for the Santa Clara Valley and the Mission town of Santa Clara. |  |
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Information Updated: May 5, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of territory of Mexico, an original county. Established: 18-Feb-1850 |
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County Seat: Santa Cruz, California County history - Santa Cruz County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. In the original act, the county was given the name of "Branciforte", after the Spanish pueblo founded there in 1797; a major watercourse in the county, Branciforte Creek, bears this name. Less than two months later on April 5, 1850, the name was changed to "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross"). |  |
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Information Updated: Aug 27, 2012 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Redding, California County history - Shasta County is named after Mount Shasta despite the fact the volcanic peak isn't located in the county per se.; the name "Shasta" is derived from the English equivalent for the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area. The name of the tribe was spelled in various ways until the present version was used when the county was established. Originally Mt. Shasta was within the county, but it is now part of Siskiyou County, to the north. |  |
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Information Updated: Oct 26, 2009 |
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Formed from: portions of Yuba County. Established: 16-Apr-1852 |
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County Seat: Downieville, California County history - Sierra County is named for the part of the Sierra Nevada which in Spanish means "snow saw", which applied to this portion of the mountain chain with its jagged, serrated, saw tooth-like peaks. |  |
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Information Updated: Feb 3, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Fairfield, California County history - Solano County is named in honor of From an Indian Chief, Chief Solano of the Suisunes, a Native American tribe of the region. |  |
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Information Updated: Feb 11, 2013 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Santa Rosa, California County history - Sonoma County is named after the village of Sonoma. Sonoma was one of the original counties formed when California became a state in 1850 with its county seat originally the town of Sonoma. However, by the early 1850s the town of Sonoma had declined in importance in terms of both commerce and population, its county buildings were crumbling, and it was relatively remote. Joseph Hooker of Sonoma and introduced a bill that ultimately resulted in Santa Rosa being confirmed as county seat in 1854. |  |
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Information Updated: May 3, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Tuolumne County. Established: xx-xxx-1854 |
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County Seat: Modesto, California County history - Stanislaus County is named for the Stanislaus River, first discovered by Gabriel Moraga in 1806, and later renamed Rio Estanislao in honor of Estanislao, a mission-educated renegade Native American chief who led a band of Indians in a series of battles against Mexican troops until finally being defeated by General Mariano Vallejo in 1826. Estanislao was his baptismal name, the Spanish rendition of Stanislaus, itself the Latin rendition of the name of an 11th century Catholic Saint Stanislav. Residents have traditionally pronounced "Stanislaus" according to its Spanish form with a silent trailing "S"; e.g. "STAN-s-l 0w. |  |
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Information Updated: May 4, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of lands of the Mexican Republic [an original County]. Established: 04-Jan-1850 |
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County Seat: Yuba City, California County history - Sutter County is named in honor of Johann Augustus Sutter (a.k.a. John Sutter) (1803-1880), a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush. His ranch land was originally named Nueva Helvetia after his homeland of Switzerland in Latinized-Spanish. |  |
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