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California Counties
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California Counties
The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties.
On January 4, 1850, the California constitutional committee recommended the formation of 18 counties. They were
Benicia, Butte, Fremont, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Monterey, Mount Diablo, Oro, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San
Francisco, San Joaquin, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, and Sutter. On April 22, the counties
of Branciforte, Calaveras, Coloma, Colusi, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Trinity, and Yuba were added. Benicia was
renamed Solano, Coloma to El Dorado, Fremont to Yola, Mt. Diablo to Contra Costa, San Jose to Santa Clara, Oro
to Tuolumne, and Redding to Shasta. One of the first state legislative acts regarding counties was to rename
Branciforte County to Santa Cruz, Colusi to Colusa, and Yola to Yolo.
The last California county to have been established is Imperial County in 1907. |
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Del Norte County, California
Del Norte County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Crescent City
Year Organized: 1857
Square Miles: 1,008 |
Court House: 981 H Street
County Courthouse
Crescent City, CA 95531-3415
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Created 1857, from territory formerly included in Klamath
County. The name of this county signifies "the north," and the county derived
its name from its geographical position in the extreme northwest corner of the
state.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
Del Norte County was founded in 1857, from part of the territory of Klamath County following the great California
Gold Rush. Klamath County itself ceased to exist in 1874.
Del Norte County is located at the far northwest corner of the State of California on the Pacific
adjacent to the Oregon border. Del Norte is the abbreviated Spanish nickname for "the land of the north"
(la tierra del norte), and is known as "The Gateway to the Redwood Coast". Despite the Spanish
etymology, the common pronunciation is to drop the trailing "e" and say "Del Nort". The county seat is
Crescent City, the county's only incorporated city.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,230 square miles (3,185 kmē),
of which, 1,008 square miles (2,610 kmē) of it is land and 222 square miles (575 kmē) of it (18.05%) is
water.
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Curry County, Ore.
- Northeast: Josephine County, Ore.
- East: Siskiyou County
- South: Humboldt County
- West: North Pacific Ocean
Cities and Towns:
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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