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Sonoma County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California, north of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2000 it had a population of 458,614. The county seat is Santa Rosa.
Sonoma County is a
world-famous wine producing region. There are over 200 Sonoma County Wineries producing a wide variety of wines. Sonoma County is also home to 13 approved American Viticultural Areas.
Sonoma County is the home of several public and private higher education institutions, including Sonoma State
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University and Santa Rosa Junior College.
Sonoma County was one of the original counties of
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California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
Regarding the etymology of the name “Sonoma,” Erwin Gustav Gudde writes in his book, California Place Names, “The name of the Indian tribe is mentioned in baptismal records of
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1815 as ‘Chucuines o Sonomas,’ by Chamisso in 1816 as Sonomi, and repeatedly in Mission records of the following years. The name is doubtless derived from a Patwin word for "nose", which Padre Arroyo (Vocabularies, p. 22) gives as sonom (Suisun). Bowman(CFQ 5:300-302 [1946]) plausibly Bankruptcy Lawyers theorizes that Spaniards found an Indian chief with a prominent protuberance
and applied the nickname of “Chief Nose” to the village and the territory (cf. Alfred L. Kroeber, AAE 29:354 [1932]). Beeler believes that the name applied originally to a nose-shaped orographic feature (WF 13:268-72 [1954]) (Gudde, 370)."
The Encyclopedia of California (1999), Encyclopedia Britannica (2005) and the California Gazetteer (1985) all
reinforce Gudde by attributing the name to a Wintu word for "nose". (The Wintun inhabit the western areas of the Sacramento River and the Bankruptcy Lawyers Patwin are considered a sub-group although some anthropologists classify the Patwin as separate from the Wintun.)