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Mendocino County was one of the original counties established when California gained statehood in 1850. For revenue and judicial purposes, Mendocino County was attached to Sonoma County and gained its independence in 1859; [2] that year the county seat was established at Ukiah. The only other competitor for the county seat was Calpella. The ...
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before ...
Mendocino County, California. / 39.4692; -123.3942. Mendocino County ( / ˌmɛndəˈsiːnoʊ / ⓘ; Mendocino, Spanish for "of Mendoza ") [ 5] is a county located on the North Coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,601. [ 6] The county seat is Ukiah. [ 7] Mendocino County consists wholly of the Ukiah ...
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [ 6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
Cape Mendocino is the westernmost point in California (longitude 124 degrees, 24 minutes, 30 seconds). Humboldt Bay, the only deep water port between San Francisco and Coos Bay, Oregon, is located on the coast at the midpoint of the county. Humboldt County contains a diversity of plant and animal species, with significant forest and coastal ...
The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district – the United States District Court for the District of California – by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300. [2] [3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat ...
Anderson Valley, Mendocino County Anderson Valley is a sparsely populated region in western Mendocino County in Northern California.Located approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of San Francisco, the name "Anderson Valley" applies broadly to several rural, unincorporated communities in or near the alluvial terraces along Anderson Creek and other tributaries to the Navarro River.
Mendocino, California. / 39.30778°N 123.79944°W / 39.30778; -123.79944. Mendocino ( Spanish for "of Mendoza ") [ 4] is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States. The name comes from Cape Mendocino 85 miles (137 km) to the north, named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy ...