Caymus, California

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Caymus
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Caymus
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Coordinates: 38°24′20″N122°21′49″W / 38.40556°N 122.36361°W / 38.40556; -122.36361 Coordinates: 38°24′20″N122°21′49″W / 38.40556°N 122.36361°W / 38.40556; -122.36361
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County Napa County
Elevation
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32 m (105 ft)

Caymus (also, Caymas) is a former settlement in Napa County, California. [1] It lay at an elevation of 105 feet (32 m). [1] Caymus was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of Rutherford. [2]

Napa County, California County in California, United States

Napa County is a county north of San Pablo Bay in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 136,484. The county seat is the City of Napa. Napa County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Lake County in 1861.

California State of the United States of America

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 8.8 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Rutherford, California census-designated place in California, United States

Rutherford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Napa County, California, United States. The population was 164 at the 2010 census.

It was located on Rancho Caymus, a Mexican land grant, a very notable wine-producing area. [2] [3]

Rancho Caymus was a 11,887-acre (48.10 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Napa County, California granted in 1836 by acting Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez to George C. Yount. Caymus was the name of a subgroup of Mishewal-Wappo Indians. The rancho was in the Napa Valley, and included present-day Yountville, Oakville and Rutherford, and the Napa Valley AVA wine region.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caymus, California
  2. 1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 614. ISBN   1-884995-14-4.
  3. ↑ Sullivan, Charles Lewis (1 October 1998). A companion to California wine: an encyclopedia of wine and winemaking from the mission period to the present. University of California Press. p. 57. ISBN   978-0-520-21351-7 . Retrieved 13 June 2011.


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