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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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San Joaquin County, California
San Joaquin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Stockton
Year Organized: 1850
Square Miles: 1,399
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Court House: 222 East Weber Ave 707
County Courthouse
Stockton, CA 95202-2709
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
The county takes its name from the San Joaquin River. In the
early 1800s Lieutenant Moraga, commanding an expedition in the lower great
Central Valley of California, gave the name of San Joaquin (meaning Saint
Joachim) to a rivulet that springs from the Sierra Nevada mountains and empties
into Buena Vista Lake.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick
Facts
History
San Joaquin County is a county located in Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, just east of the San
Francisco Bay Area. The county seat is Stockton.
San Joaquin County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
The county takes its name from the San Joaquin River.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,426 square miles (3,694 kmē),
of which, 1,399 square miles (3,624 kmē) of it is land and 27 square miles (70 kmē) of it (1.89%) is
water
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Sacramento County
- Northeast: Amador County; Calaveras County
- Southeast: Stanislaus County
- Southwest: Santa Clara County; Alameda County
- West: Contra Costa County
Cities and Towns:
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- Escalon |
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- Lathrop |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Lodi |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Manteca |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ripon |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Stockton
(County Seat) |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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- Tracy |
city |
Incorporated Area |
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,
act locally." |
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