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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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Monterey County, California

Monterey County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Salinas
Year Organized: 1850
Square Miles: 3,322
Court House:

168 West Alisal Street

3rd Floor
Salinas, CA 93901-2695

Etymology - Origin of County Name

It derived its name from the Bay of Monterey. The word itself is composed of the Spanish words monte and rey, and literally means "king of the forest." The bay was named by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602, in honor of the Conde de Monterey, the Viceroy of New Spain.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Monterey County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county were given to San Benito County in 1874.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,771 square miles (9,767 kmē), of which, 3,322 square miles (8,604 kmē) of it is land and 449 square miles (1,163 kmē) of it (11.91%) is water. The county is roughly 1.5 times larger than the state of Delaware

Neighboring Counties:

  • Northeast: San Benito County; Fresno County
  • East: Kings County
  • Southeast: Kern County; San Luis Obispo County
  • Southwest: North Pacific Ocean
  • Northwest: Santa Cruz County

Cities and Towns:

- Carmel-by-the-Sea city Incorporated Area
- Del Rey Oaks city Incorporated Area
- Gonzales city Incorporated Area
- Greenfield city Incorporated Area
- King City city Incorporated Area
- Marina city Incorporated Area
- Monterey city Incorporated Area
- Pacific Grove city Incorporated Area
- Salinas (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Sand City city Incorporated Area
- Seaside city Incorporated Area
- Soledad city Incorporated Area

County Resources:

Monterery County
http://www.mchsmuseum.com/historypages.html

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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, act locally."
 
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