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The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties. Counties are responsible for all elections, property-tax collection, maintenance of public records such as deeds, and local-level courts within their borders, as well as providing law enforcement (through the county sheriff and sheriff's deputies) to areas that do not lie within incorporated cities.

  • The county is the default unit of local government (all parts of the state's land are allocated to one of the state's 58 counties). Each county has a Board of Supervisors and is subject to mandatory duties under state law to provide its residents with services like law enforcement, healthcare, road maintenance, and so on. Balancing a county's mandatory and discretionary duties is a very difficult task; any sufficiently injured county taxpayer has standing to sue the county to enforce certain duties where financial distress is no excuse, such as healthcare.
  • Residents of a sufficiently large piece of unincorporated county land can incorporate a city. The city government then takes some of the tax revenue that would have gone to the county, and can impose additional taxes on its residents. It can then choose to provide almost all the services usually provided by the county (and more), or provide only a few and pay the county to do the rest. A city in this last arrangement is called a contract city; this type of contract is generally known among lawyers as the "Lakewood Plan," because it was pioneered by the city of Lakewood in 1954.[1]
  • The idea of "opting out" of county control in California has been taken to its logical extremes. Almost all of the city of Vernon is one large industrial zone, while almost all of the town of Los Altos Hills is zoned as residential.
  • Due to geographical variations in property tax and sales tax revenue (the primary revenue source for cities and counties) and differing attitudes towards priorities, there are variations in the levels of various services from one city to the next. For example, the city of Santa Monica is far more generous when it comes to helping the homeless than other cities in Los Angeles County or the county government.
  • Also, county ordinances do not apply to cities unless they are ratified by each individual city. Thus, for instance, in Los Angeles County, a few cities have not ratified the ordinance requiring the posting of restaurant food safety ratings — even though it was passed many years ago — and in those cities, ratings need not be posted.
  • The state of California has one consolidated city-county, San Francisco. The city's board of supervisors govern both aspects, and there is both a city police department and a county sheriff, the latter mostly responsible for operating the county jail.

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First establishment of California counties

County FIPS code of California

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 Yolo, 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.

Table of California counties

The current number of counties was achieved over time by subdivision of many of the larger counties into smaller ones. The links in the column FIPS County Code are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county. The map at the right hand side also shows the FIPS codes for all the counties (on one map for easy reference).

Population Note: County and city populations are counted by two agencies, one the California Department of Finance (CDF) January 2008 data , and also US Census Bureau July 2008 data, using different counting methodology. California claims US Census consistently underreports due to difficulty in tracking immigrants, population data is used to calculate distribution of money for federal programs.

California's postal abbreviation is CA and its FIPS state code is 06.

County
 FIPS Code
[2]		 County seat
[3]		 Established
[3]		 Created from parts of
 Etymology
[4]		 Population (CDF 1-08)
[5]		 Population
 Area
[3]		 Map
Alameda County 001 Oakland 1853 Contra Costa and Santa Clara Alameda is Spanish for an avenue shaded by trees or a cottonwood grove 1,543,000 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","1,474,368 &0000000000000738.000000738 mi²
(1,911 km²)		 State map highlighting Alameda County
Alpine County 003 Markleeville 1864 Amador, El Dorado, Calaveras, Mono and Tuolumne Named for its location high in the Sierra Nevada mountains 1,222 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","1,061 &0000000000000739.000000739 sq mi
(&0000000000001914.0000001,914 km 2)		 State map highlighting Alpine County
Amador County 005 Jackson 1854 Calaveras Jose Maria Amador (1794-1883), a soldier, rancher and miner. In 1848, Amador, with several Native Americans, established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador City. In Spanish, the word amador means "one who loves." 37,943 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","38,238 &0000000000000593.000000593 sq mi
(&0000000000001536.0000001,536 km 2)		 State map highlighting Amador County
Butte County 007 Oroville 1850 Original From the Sutter Buttes, which were erroneously believed to lie within the county's borders at the time of its creation. 220,407 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","220,337 &0000000000001640.0000001,640 sq mi
(&0000000000004248.0000004,248 km 2)		 State map highlighting Butte County
Calaveras County 009 San Andreas 1850 Original From the Calaveras River which in turn is named for the spanish word for skulls 46,127 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","46,843 &0000000000001020.0000001,020 sq mi
(&0000000000002642.0000002,642 km 2)		 State map highlighting Calaveras County
Colusa County 011 Colusa 1850 Original From two Mexican land grants; Coluses (1844) and Colus (1845) 21,910 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","21,204 &0000000000001151.0000001,151 sq mi
(&0000000000002981.0000002,981 km 2)		 State map highlighting Colusa County
Contra Costa County 013 Martinez 1850 Original Spanish for opposite coast, because Contra Costa County is across San Francisco Bay from San Francisco 1,051,674 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","1,029,703 &0000000000000720.000000720 sq mi
(&0000000000001865.0000001,865 km 2)		 State map highlighting Contra Costa County
Del Norte County 015 Crescent City 1857 Klamath Spanish for Northern, because Del Norte County is the northwesternmost county in the state. 29,419 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","29,100 &0000000000001008.0000001,008 sq mi
(&0000000000002611.0000002,611 km 2)		 State map highlighting Del Norte County
El Dorado County 017 Placerville 1850 Original From the mythical El Dorado, The Gilded One, in relation to El Dorado County's importance in the California Gold Rush. 179,722 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","176,075 &0000000000001712.0000001,712 sq mi
(&0000000000004434.0000004,434 km 2)		 State map highlighting El Dorado County
Fresno County 019 Fresno 1856 Mariposa, Merced and Tulare From Fresno Creek. In Spanish, Fresno means "ash tree" 931,098 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","909,153 &0000000000005963.0000005,963 sq mi
(&0000000000015444.00000015,444 km 2)		 State map highlighting Fresno County
Glenn County 021 Willows 1891 Colusa Named for Dr. Hugh J. Glenn (1824-1883), a California businessman and politician. 29,195 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","28,237 &0000000000001315.0000001,315 sq mi
(&0000000000003406.0000003,406 km 2)		 State map highlighting Glenn County
Humboldt County 023 Eureka 1853 Trinity From Humboldt Bay, named after Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a German naturalist and explorer. 132,821 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","129,000 &0000000000003573.0000003,573 sq mi
(&0000000000009254.0000009,254 km 2)		 State map highlighting Humboldt County
Imperial County 025 El Centro 1907 San Diego [6] From the Imperial Valley, which took its name from the Imperial Land Company. 176,158 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","163,972 &0000000000004175.0000004,175 sq mi
(&0000000000010813.00000010,813 km 2)		 State map highlighting Imperial County
Inyo County 027 Independence 1866 Mono and Tulare From a Native American word for dwelling place of the great spirit. 18,152 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","17,136 &0000000000010192.00000010,192 sq mi
(&0000000000026397.00000026,397 km 2)		 State map highlighting Inyo County
Kern County 029 Bakersfield 1866 Los Angeles and Tulare From the Kern River, named for Edward Kern, cartographer for General John C. Fremont's 1845 expedition. 817,517 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","800,458 &0000000000008142.0000008,142 sq mi
(&0000000000021088.00000021,088 km 2)		 State map highlighting Kern County
Kings County 031 Hanford 1893 Tulare Kings River – Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Holy Kings) to honor the Biblical Magi 154,434 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","149,518 &0000000000001390.0000001,390 sq mi
(&0000000000003600.0000003,600 km 2)		 State map highlighting Kings County
Lake County 033 Lakeport 1861 Napa From Clear Lake 64,059 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","64,866 &0000000000001258.0000001,258 sq mi
(&0000000000003258.0000003,258 km 2)		 State map highlighting Lake County
Lassen County 035 Susanville 1864 Plumas and Shasta, and now defunct Lake County, Nevada. Named after Peter Lassen (1800-1859), a Danish naturalist and explorer. 35,757 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","34,574 &0000000000004558.0000004,558 sq mi
(&0000000000011805.00000011,805 km 2)		 State map highlighting Lassen County
Los Angeles County 037 Los Angeles 1850 Original Spanish for the Angels, abbreviated from El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the river of Porziuncola). 10,363,850 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","9,862,049 &0000000000004060.0000004,060 sq mi
(&0000000000010515.00000010,515 km 2)		 State map highlighting Los Angeles County
Madera County 039 Madera 1893 Fresno Spanish for wood. 150,887 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","148,333 &0000000000002138.0000002,138 sq mi
(&0000000000005537.0000005,537 km 2)		 State map highlighting Madera County
Marin County 041 San Rafael 1850 Original Disputed but may have been a corrupted term for Marina for its location on the San Francisco Bay. 257,406 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","248,794 &0000000000000520.000000520 sq mi
(&0000000000001347.0000001,347 km 2)		 State map highlighting Marin County
Mariposa County 043 Mariposa 1850 Original[7] Spanish for butterfly. 18,406 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","17,976 &0000000000001451.0000001,451 sq mi
(&0000000000003758.0000003,758 km 2)		 State map highlighting Mariposa County
Mendocino County 045 Ukiah 1850 Original From Cape Mendocino, named probably for either Antonio de Mendoza or Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, viceroys of New Spain. 90,163 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","86,221 &0000000000003509.0000003,509 sq mi
(&0000000000009088.0000009,088 km 2)		 State map highlighting Mendocino County
Merced County 047 Merced 1855 Mariposa 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. 255,250 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","246,117 &0000000000001929.0000001,929 sq mi
(&0000000000004996.0000004,996 km 2)		 State map highlighting Merced County
Modoc County 049 Alturas 1874 Siskiyou From the Native American Modoc people. 9,702 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","9,184 &0000000000003944.0000003,944 sq mi
(&0000000000010215.00000010,215 km 2)		 State map highlighting Modoc County
Mono County 051 Bridgeport 1861 Calaveras, Fresno and Mariposa For a local Native American tribe, the Mono Paiute people. 13,759 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","12,774 &0000000000003044.0000003,044 sq mi
(&0000000000007884.0000007,884 km 2)		 State map highlighting Mono County
Monterey County 053 Salinas 1850 Original From Monterey Bay. The name itself is composed of the Spanish words monte (hill) and rey (king). 428,549 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","408,238 &0000000000003322.0000003,322 sq mi
(&0000000000008604.0000008,604 km 2)		 State map highlighting Monterey County
Napa County 055 Napa 1850 Original For a local Native American tribe, the Napans. 136,704 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","133,433 &0000000000000754.000000754 sq mi
(&0000000000001953.0000001,953 km 2)		 State map highlighting Napa County
Nevada County 057 Nevada City 1851 Yuba snowfall in Spanish. 99,186 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","97,118 &0000000000000958.000000958 sq mi
(&0000000000002481.0000002,481 km 2)		 State map highlighting Nevada County
Orange County 059 Santa Ana 1889 Los Angeles From the citrus fruit widely grown in the region at the time the county was formed. 3,121,251 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","3,010,759 &0000000000000790.000000790 sq mi
(&0000000000002046.0000002,046 km 2)		 State map highlighting Orange County
Placer County 061 Auburn 1851 Sutter and Yuba Named for the small flakes of gold found in the area during Gold Rush. 333,401 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","341,945 &0000000000001503.0000001,503 sq mi
(&0000000000003893.0000003,893 km 2)		 State map highlighting Placer County
Plumas County 063 Quincy 1854 Butte For the Feather River, "Plumas" meaning "feathers" in Spanish. 20,917 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","20,275 &0000000000002554.0000002,554 sq mi
(&0000000000006615.0000006,615 km 2)		 State map highlighting Plumas County
Riverside County 065 Riverside 1893 San Bernardino and San Diego From the city of Riverside being alongside the Santa Ana River and the boundary extends to the Colorado River. 2,088,322 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","2,100,516 &0000000000007208.0000007,208 sq mi
(&0000000000018669.00000018,669 km 2)		 State map highlighting Riverside County
Sacramento County 067 Sacramento 1850 Original From the Sacramento River, itself named for the Santisimo Sacramento (Spanish for Most Holy Sacrament) a reference to the Eucharist. 1,424,415 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","1,394,154 &0000000000000966.000000966 sq mi
(&0000000000002502.0000002,502 km 2)		 State map highlighting Sacramento County
San Benito County 069 Hollister 1874 Monterey in honor of San Benedicto (Saint Benedict), Benito is the diminuative of Benedicto. 57,784 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","54,699 &0000000000001389.0000001,389 sq mi
(&0000000000003597.0000003,597 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Benito County
San Bernardino County 071 San Bernardino 1853 Los Angeles Named for Saint Bernardino of Siena. The biggest county in the continental U.S. 2,055,766 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","2,015,355 &0000000000020062.00000020,062 sq mi
(&0000000000051960.00000051,960 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Bernardino County
San Diego County 073 San Diego 1850 Original Named for San Diego Bay, itself named for Saint Didacus of Alcalá, or San Diego de Alcalá in Spanish. 3,146,274 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","3,001,072 &0000000000004204.0000004,204 sq mi
(&0000000000010888.00000010,888 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Diego County
San Francisco County 075 San Francisco 1850 Original Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), a Roman Catholic saint and founder of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans). 845,559 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","845,559 &0000000000000047.00000047 sq mi
(&0000000000000122.000000122 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Francisco County
San Joaquin County 077 Stockton 1850 Original Spanish for Saint Joachim. 685,660 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","672,388 &0000000000001399.0000001,399 sq mi
(&0000000000003623.0000003,623 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Joaquin County
San Luis Obispo County 079 San Luis Obispo 1850 Original Spanish for St. Louis, the Bishop. 269,337 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","265,297 &0000000000003304.0000003,304 sq mi
(&0000000000008557.0000008,557 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Luis Obispo County
San Mateo County 081 Redwood City 1856 San Francisco Spanish for Saint Matthew 739,469 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","712,690 &0000000000000449.000000449 sq mi
(&0000000000001163.0000001,163 km 2)		 State map highlighting San Mateo County
Santa Barbara County 083 Santa Barbara 1850 Original Spanish for Saint Barbara. 428,655 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","405,396 &0000000000002738.0000002,738 sq mi
(&0000000000007091.0000007,091 km 2)		 State map highlighting Santa Barbara County
Santa Clara County 085 San Jose 1850 Original Spanish for Saint Clare, for the Santa Clara Valley and the Mission town of Santa Clara. 1,837,075 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","1,764,499 &0000000000001291.0000001,291 sq mi
(&0000000000003344.0000003,344 km 2)		 State map highlighting Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County 087 Santa Cruz 1850 Original Originally called Branciforte County, was named after the city of Santa Cruz, which, in turn, took its name from La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross), which was established on the site of the town in 1791. 266,519 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","253,137 &0000000000000446.000000446 sq mi
(&0000000000001155.0000001,155 km 2)		 State map highlighting Santa Cruz County
Shasta County 089 Redding 1850 Original After Mount Shasta despite the fact the volcanic peak isn't located in the county per se. 182,236 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","180,214 &0000000000003786.0000003,786 sq mi
(&0000000000009806.0000009,806 km 2)		 State map highlighting Shasta County
Sierra County 091 Downieville 1852 Yuba Mountain range in Spanish. 3,380 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","3,263 &0000000000000953.000000953 sq mi
(&0000000000002468.0000002,468 km 2)		 State map highlighting Sierra County
Siskiyou County 093 Yreka 1852 Shasta and Klamath County named after Siskiyou Mountain Range; etymology of Siskiyou is disputed 45,971 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","44,542 &0000000000006287.0000006,287 sq mi
(&0000000000016283.00000016,283 km 2)		 State map highlighting Siskiyou County
Solano County 095 Fairfield 1850 Original From an Indian Chief, Chief Solano of the Suisunes, a Native American tribe of the region. 426,757 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","407,515 &0000000000000828.000000828 sq mi
(&0000000000002145.0000002,145 km 2)		 State map highlighting Solano County
Sonoma County 097 Santa Rosa 1850 Original After the village of Sonoma. 484,470 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","466,741 &0000000000001576.0000001,576 sq mi
(&0000000000004082.0000004,082 km 2)		 State map highlighting Sonoma County
Stanislaus County 099 Modesto 1854 Tuolumne For the Stanislaus River, which was named for a Yokut Indian named Estanislao 525,903 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","510,694 &0000000000001495.0000001,495 sq mi
(&0000000000003872.0000003,872 km 2)		 State map highlighting Stanislaus County
Sutter County 101 Yuba City 1850 Original 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. His ranch land was originally named Nueva Helvetia after his homeland of Switzerland in Latinized-Spanish. 95,878 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","92,207 &0000000000000603.000000603 sq mi
(&0000000000001562.0000001,562 km 2)		 State map highlighting Sutter County
Tehama County 103 Red Bluff 1856 Butte, Colusa and Shasta For a local Native American tribe, the Tehama. 62,419 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","61,550 &0000000000002951.0000002,951 sq mi
(&0000000000007643.0000007,643 km 2)		 State map highlighting Tehama County
Trinity County 105 Weaverville 1850 Original From the Trinity River which in turn was named after the coastal town of Trinidad, California 13,966 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","14,317 &0000000000003179.0000003,179 sq mi
(&0000000000008234.0000008,234 km 2)		 State map highlighting Trinity County
Tulare County 107 Visalia 1852 Mariposa For a dry lake, Tulare Lake on the western end of the 435,254 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","426,276 &0000000000004824.0000004,824 sq mi
(&0000000000012494.00000012,494 km 2)		 State map highlighting Tulare County
Tuolumne County 109 Sonora 1850 Original The name for the Tuolumne River (twah'-luh-me) has as many possible meanings as it does spellings. The original meaning of the word "Tuolumne" may have been "cave people" or "stone wigwams," both taken from the history of tribes known as "Taulamnell," or "Tahualamne," or Yokuts Indians living near Knights Ferry in the rocks and recesses by the river. Another theory is that "Tuolumne" is derived from a Central Sierra Miwok word "talmalmne" whose meaning is unclear today. 56,799 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","55,644 &0000000000002236.0000002,236 sq mi
(&0000000000005791.0000005,791 km 2)		 State map highlighting Tuolumne County
Ventura County 111 Ventura 1872 Santa Barbara Abbreviation of San Buenaventura, Spanish for St. Bonaventure. 831,587 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","797,740 &0000000000001846.0000001,846 sq mi
(&0000000000004781.0000004,781 km 2)		 State map highlighting Ventura County
Yolo County 113 Woodland 1850 Original For a local Native American tribe, the Yolans. 199,066 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","197,658 &0000000000001012.0000001,012 sq mi
(&0000000000002621.0000002,621 km 2)		 State map highlighting Yolo County
Yuba County 115 Marysville 1850 Original For the Yuba family whom owned ranchos in the Sacramento River Valley. 71,929 &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ",".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character ","73,067 &0000000000000630.000000630 sq mi
(&0000000000001632.0000001,632 km 2)		 State map highlighting Yuba County

Defunct counties

  • Klamath County was created in 1851 from the northern half of Trinity County. Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte County in 1857, and in 1874 the remainder was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties.
  • Pautah County was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada. When the cession never occurred, the California State Legislature officially abolished the never-created county in 1859.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Reynolds, 48-49.
  2. ^ "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA.gov. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/ca.html. Retrieved 2008-02-23.  
  3. ^ a b c National Association of Counties. "NACo - Find a county". http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/state.cfm&state.cfm&statecode=CA. Retrieved 2008-04-30.  
  4. ^ Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift (1914). Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson. OCLC 4268886. http://books.google.com/books?id=gKgYAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage.  
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  6. ^ The most recent county formed.
  7. ^ Mariposa County was the largest of the state's original counties, but territory that was once Mariposa is now 12 other counties -- Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, and Tulare.

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Counties of California

The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties. Counties are responsible for all elections, property-tax collection, maintenance of public records such as deeds, and local-level courts within their borders, as well as providing law enforcement (through the county sheriff and sheriff's deputies) to areas that do not lie within incorporated cities.

  • The county is the default unit of local government (all parts of the state's land are allocated to one of the state's 58 counties). Each county has a Board of Supervisors and is subject to mandatory duties under state law to provide its residents with services like law enforcement, healthcare, road maintenance, and so on. Balancing a county's mandatory and discretionary duties is a very difficult task; any sufficiently injured county taxpayer has standing to sue the county to enforce certain duties where financial distress is no excuse, such as healthcare.
  • If residents of a sufficiently large piece of unincorporated county land do not like their county's resource allocation decisions, they can incorporate a city. The city government then takes some of the tax revenue that would have gone to the county, and can impose additional taxes on its residents. It can then choose to provide almost all the services usually provided by the county (and more), or provide only a few and pay the county to do the rest. A city in this last arrangement is called a contract city; this type of contract is generally known among lawyers as the "Lakewood Plan," because it was pioneered by the city of Lakewood in 1954.[1]
  • The idea of "opting out" of county control in California has been taken to its logical extremes. Almost all of the city of Vernon is one large industrial zone, while almost all of the town of Los Altos Hills is zoned as residential.
  • Due to geographical variations in property tax and sales tax revenue (the primary revenue source for cities and counties) and differing attitudes towards priorities, there are interesting variations in the levels of various services from one city to the next. For example, the city of Santa Monica is far more generous when it comes to helping the homeless than other cities in Los Angeles County or the county government.
  • Also, county ordinances do not apply to cities unless they are ratified by each individual city. Thus, for instance, in Los Angeles County, a few cities have not ratified the ordinance requiring the posting of restaurant food safety ratings — even though it was passed many years ago — and in those cities, ratings need not be posted.
  • The state of California has one consolidated city-county, San Francisco. The city's board of supervisors govern both aspects, and there is both a city police department and a county sheriff, the latter mostly responsible for operating the county jail.

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First establishment of California 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.

Table of California counties

The current number of counties was achieved over time by subdivision of many of the larger counties into smaller ones. The links in the column FIPS County Code are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county.

County FIPS Code County Seat Created Formed from Etymology Population Area Map
Alameda County 001 Oakland 1853 Parts of Contra Costa County and Santa Clara County. Spanish word meaning a "cottonwood grove". &&&&&&&&01443741.&&&&&01,443,741 &&&&&&&&&&&&0738.&&&&&0738 mi²
(1,911 km²)		 State map highlighting Alameda County
Alpine County 003 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". &&&&&&&&&&&01208.&&&&&01,208 &&&&&&&&&&&&0739.&&&&&0739 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01914.&&&&&01,914 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Alpine County.svg
Amador County 005 Jackson 1854 Part of Calaveras County. Jose Maria Amador (1794-1883), a soldier, rancher and miner. In Spanish, the word amador means "lover of inanimate objects". &&&&&&&&&&035100.&&&&&035,100 &&&&&&&&&&&&0593.&&&&&0593 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01536.&&&&&01,536 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Amador County.svg
Butte County 007 Oroville 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0203171.&&&&&0203,171 &&&&&&&&&&&01640.&&&&&01,640 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&04248.&&&&&04,248 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Butte County.svg
Calaveras County 009 San Andreas 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&040554.&&&&&040,554 &&&&&&&&&&&01020.&&&&&01,020 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02642.&&&&&02,642 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Calaveras County.svg
Colusa County 011 Colusa 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&018804.&&&&&018,804 &&&&&&&&&&&01151.&&&&&01,151 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02981.&&&&&02,981 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Colusa County.svg
Contra Costa County 013 Martinez 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0948816.&&&&&0948,816 &&&&&&&&&&&&0720.&&&&&0720 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01865.&&&&&01,865 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Contra Costa County.svg
Del Norte County 015 Crescent City 1857 Part of Klamath County. - &&&&&&&&&&027507.&&&&&027,507 &&&&&&&&&&&01008.&&&&&01,008 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02611.&&&&&02,611 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Del Norte County.svg
El Dorado County 017 Placerville 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0156299.&&&&&0156,299 &&&&&&&&&&&01712.&&&&&01,712 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&04434.&&&&&04,434 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting El Dorado County.svg
Fresno County 019 Fresno 1856 Parts of Mariposa County, Merced County and Tulare County. - &&&&&&&&&0799407.&&&&&0799,407 &&&&&&&&&&&05963.&&&&&05,963 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&015444.&&&&&015,444 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Fresno County.svg
Glenn County 021 Willows 1891 Part of Colusa County. - &&&&&&&&&&026453.&&&&&026,453 &&&&&&&&&&&01315.&&&&&01,315 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03406.&&&&&03,406 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Glenn County.svg
Humboldt County 023 Eureka 1853 Part of Trinity County. - &&&&&&&&&0126518.&&&&&0126,518 &&&&&&&&&&&03573.&&&&&03,573 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&09254.&&&&&09,254 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Humboldt County.svg
Imperial County 025 El Centro 1907 Part of San Diego County.[2] - &&&&&&&&&0142361.&&&&&0142,361 &&&&&&&&&&&04175.&&&&&04,175 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&010813.&&&&&010,813 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Imperial County.svg
Inyo County 027 Independence 1866 Parts of Mono County and Tulare County. - &&&&&&&&&&017945.&&&&&017,945 &&&&&&&&&&010192.&&&&&010,192 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&026397.&&&&&026,397 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Inyo County.svg
Kern County 029 Bakersfield 1866 Parts of Los Angeles County and Tulare County. - &&&&&&&&&0661645.&&&&&0661,645 &&&&&&&&&&&08142.&&&&&08,142 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&021088.&&&&&021,088 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Kern County.svg
Kings County 031 Hanford 1893 Part of Tulare County. - &&&&&&&&&0129461.&&&&&0129,461 &&&&&&&&&&&01390.&&&&&01,390 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03600.&&&&&03,600 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Kings County.svg
Lake County 033 Lakeport 1861 Part of Napa County. - &&&&&&&&&&058309.&&&&&058,309 &&&&&&&&&&&01258.&&&&&01,258 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03258.&&&&&03,258 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Lake County.svg
Lassen County 035 Susanville 1864 Parts of Plumas County and Shasta County, and part of now defunct Lake County. Named for Peter Lassen, an early explorer of the area. &&&&&&&&&&033828.&&&&&033,828 &&&&&&&&&&&04558.&&&&&04,558 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&011805.&&&&&011,805 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Lassen County.svg
Los Angeles County 037 Los Angeles 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&09519338.&&&&&09,519,338 &&&&&&&&&&&04060.&&&&&04,060 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&010515.&&&&&010,515 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Los Angeles County.svg
Madera County 039 Madera 1893 Part of Fresno County. - &&&&&&&&&0123109.&&&&&0123,109 &&&&&&&&&&&02138.&&&&&02,138 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&05537.&&&&&05,537 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Madera County.svg
Marin County 041 San Rafael 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0247289.&&&&&0247,289 &&&&&&&&&&&&0520.&&&&&0520 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01347.&&&&&01,347 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Marin County.svg
Mariposa County 043 Mariposa 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties.[3] Spanish for "butterfly". &&&&&&&&&&017130.&&&&&017,130 &&&&&&&&&&&01451.&&&&&01,451 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03758.&&&&&03,758 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Mariposa County.svg
Mendocino County 045 Ukiah 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&086265.&&&&&086,265 &&&&&&&&&&&03509.&&&&&03,509 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&09088.&&&&&09,088 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Mendocino County.svg
Merced County 047 Merced 1855 Part of Mariposa County. - &&&&&&&&&0210554.&&&&&0210,554 &&&&&&&&&&&01929.&&&&&01,929 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&04996.&&&&&04,996 km²)		 State map highlighting Merced County
Modoc County 049 Alturas 1874 Part of Siskiyou County. - &&&&&&&&&&&09449.&&&&&09,449 &&&&&&&&&&&03944.&&&&&03,944 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&010215.&&&&&010,215 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Modoc County.svg
Mono County 051 Bridgeport 1861 Parts of Calaveras County, Fresno County and Mariposa County. - &&&&&&&&&&012853.&&&&&012,853 &&&&&&&&&&&03044.&&&&&03,044 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&07884.&&&&&07,884 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Mono County.svg
Monterey County 053 Salinas 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0401762.&&&&&0401,762 &&&&&&&&&&&03322.&&&&&03,322 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&08604.&&&&&08,604 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Monterey County.svg
Napa County 055 Napa 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0124279.&&&&&0124,279 &&&&&&&&&&&&0754.&&&&&0754 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01953.&&&&&01,953 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Napa County.svg
Nevada County 057 Nevada City 1851 Part of Yuba County. - &&&&&&&&&&092033.&&&&&092,033 &&&&&&&&&&&&0958.&&&&&0958 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02481.&&&&&02,481 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Nevada County.svg
Orange County 059 Santa Ana 1889 Part of Los Angeles County. - &&&&&&&&02846289.&&&&&02,846,289 &&&&&&&&&&&&0790.&&&&&0790 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02046.&&&&&02,046 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Orange County.svg
Placer County 061 Auburn 1851 Parts of Sutter County and Yuba County. - &&&&&&&&&0307004.&&&&&0307,004 &&&&&&&&&&&01503.&&&&&01,503 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03893.&&&&&03,893 km²)		 State map highlighting Placer County
Plumas County 063 Quincy 1854 Part of Butte County. - &&&&&&&&&&020824.&&&&&020,824 &&&&&&&&&&&02554.&&&&&02,554 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&06615.&&&&&06,615 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Plumas County.svg
Riverside County 065 Riverside 1893 Parts of San Bernardino County and San Diego County. - &&&&&&&&01545387.&&&&&01,545,387 &&&&&&&&&&&07208.&&&&&07,208 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&018669.&&&&&018,669 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Riverside County.svg
Sacramento County 067 Sacramento 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&01223499.&&&&&01,223,499 &&&&&&&&&&&&0966.&&&&&0966 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02502.&&&&&02,502 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Sacramento County.svg
San Benito County 069 Hollister 1874 Part of Monterey County. - &&&&&&&&&&053234.&&&&&053,234 &&&&&&&&&&&01389.&&&&&01,389 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03597.&&&&&03,597 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Benito County.svg
San Bernardino County 071 San Bernardino 1853 Part of Los Angeles County. - &&&&&&&&01709434.&&&&&01,709,434 &&&&&&&&&&020062.&&&&&020,062 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&051960.&&&&&051,960 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Bernardino County.svg
San Diego County 073 San Diego 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&02813833.&&&&&02,813,833 &&&&&&&&&&&04204.&&&&&04,204 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&010888.&&&&&010,888 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Diego County.svg
San Francisco County 075 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) &&&&&&&&&0776733.&&&&&0776,733 &&&&&&&&&&&&&047.&&&&&047 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&&0122.&&&&&0122 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Francisco County.svg
San Joaquin County 077 Stockton 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0563598.&&&&&0563,598 &&&&&&&&&&&01399.&&&&&01,399 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03623.&&&&&03,623 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Joaquin County.svg
San Luis Obispo County 079 San Luis Obispo 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0246681.&&&&&0246,681 &&&&&&&&&&&03304.&&&&&03,304 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&08557.&&&&&08,557 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Luis Obispo County.svg
San Mateo County 081 Redwood City 1856 Part of San Francisco County. - &&&&&&&&&0707161.&&&&&0707,161 &&&&&&&&&&&&0449.&&&&&0449 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01163.&&&&&01,163 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting San Mateo County.svg
Santa Barbara County 083 Santa Barbara 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0399347.&&&&&0399,347 &&&&&&&&&&&02738.&&&&&02,738 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&07091.&&&&&07,091 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Santa Barbara County.svg
Santa Clara County 085 San Jose 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&01682585.&&&&&01,682,585 &&&&&&&&&&&01291.&&&&&01,291 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03344.&&&&&03,344 km²)		 State map highlighting Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz County 087 Santa Cruz 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0255602.&&&&&0255,602 &&&&&&&&&&&&0446.&&&&&0446 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01155.&&&&&01,155 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Santa Cruz County.svg
Shasta County 089 Redding 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0163256.&&&&&0163,256 &&&&&&&&&&&03786.&&&&&03,786 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&09806.&&&&&09,806 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Shasta County.svg
Sierra County 091 Downieville 1852 Part of Yuba County. - &&&&&&&&&&&03555.&&&&&03,555 &&&&&&&&&&&&0953.&&&&&0953 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02468.&&&&&02,468 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Sierra County.svg
Siskiyou County 093 Yreka 1852 Parts of Shasta County and Klamath County. - &&&&&&&&&&044301.&&&&&044,301 &&&&&&&&&&&06287.&&&&&06,287 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&016283.&&&&&016,283 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Siskiyou County.svg
Solano County 095 Fairfield 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0394542.&&&&&0394,542 &&&&&&&&&&&&0828.&&&&&0828 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02145.&&&&&02,145 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Solano County.svg
Sonoma County 097 Santa Rosa 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0458614.&&&&&0458,614 &&&&&&&&&&&01576.&&&&&01,576 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&04082.&&&&&04,082 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Sonoma County.svg
Stanislaus County 099 Modesto 1854 Part of Tuolumne County. - &&&&&&&&&0446997.&&&&&0446,997 &&&&&&&&&&&01495.&&&&&01,495 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&03872.&&&&&03,872 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Stanislaus County.svg
Sutter County 101 Yuba City 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&078930.&&&&&078,930 &&&&&&&&&&&&0603.&&&&&0603 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01562.&&&&&01,562 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Sutter County.svg
Tehama County 103 Red Bluff 1856 Parts of Butte County, Colusa County and Shasta County. - &&&&&&&&&&056039.&&&&&056,039 &&&&&&&&&&&02951.&&&&&02,951 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&07643.&&&&&07,643 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Tehama County.svg
Trinity County 105 Weaverville 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&013022.&&&&&013,022 &&&&&&&&&&&03179.&&&&&03,179 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&08234.&&&&&08,234 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Trinity County.svg
Tulare County 107 Visalia 1852 Part of Mariposa County. - &&&&&&&&&0368021.&&&&&0368,021 &&&&&&&&&&&04824.&&&&&04,824 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&012494.&&&&&012,494 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Tulare County.svg
Tuolumne County 109 Sonora 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&054501.&&&&&054,501 &&&&&&&&&&&02236.&&&&&02,236 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&05791.&&&&&05,791 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Tuolumne County.svg
Ventura County 111 Ventura 1872 Part of Santa Barbara County. - &&&&&&&&&0753197.&&&&&0753,197 &&&&&&&&&&&01846.&&&&&01,846 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&04781.&&&&&04,781 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Ventura County.svg
Yolo County 113 Woodland 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&0168660.&&&&&0168,660 &&&&&&&&&&&01012.&&&&&01,012 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&02621.&&&&&02,621 km²)		 State map highlighting Yolo County
Yuba County 115 Marysville 1850 One of the twenty-seven original counties. - &&&&&&&&&&071938.&&&&&071,938 &&&&&&&&&&&&0630.&&&&&0630 sq mi
(&&&&&&&&&&&01632.&&&&&01,632 km²)		 File:Map of California highlighting Yuba County.svg

Defunct counties

  • Klamath County was created in 1851 from the northern half of Trinity County, but in 1874 it was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte in 1857.
  • Pautah County was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada. When the cession never occurred, the California State Legislature officially abolished the never-created county in 1859.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Reynolds, 48-49.
  2. ^ The most recent county formed.
  3. ^ Mariposa County was the largest of the state's original counties, but territory that was once part of Mariposa is now part of 12 other counties -- Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, and Tulare.

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