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Yolo County is located in the northern
part of the U.S. state of California, bordered by the counties of
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Sacramento, Solano, Napa, Lake, Colusa, and Sutter. Woodland is the county seat.
As of the 2000 census, Yolo County
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had a population of 168,660, and notwithstanding the presence of the University of California, Davis in its midst and the state capita
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l in the neighboring county of Sacramento, Yolo County remains a relatively rural agricultural area, home to the multi-billion dollar
California tomato industry, which dominates 90% of the tomato market in the United States.
Yolo County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
In the original act of 1850 the name was spelled "Yola." Yolo is a Native American name variously believed to be a
corruption of a tribal name Yo-loy meaning "a place abounding in rushes" or of the name of the chief, Yodo, or of the village of Yodoi.