Sonoma County is located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census,its population was 488,863. Its seat of government and largest city is Santa Rosa.
Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County,in California with a recorded population of 7,521,per the 2020 U.S. Census.
Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County,in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 178,127. It is the largest city in California's Wine Country and Redwood Coast. It is the fifth most populous city in the Bay Area after San Jose,San Francisco,Oakland,and Fremont;and the 25th-most populous city in California.
Windsor is an incorporated town in Sonoma County,California,United States. The town is 9 miles north of Santa Rosa and 63 miles north of San Francisco. The population was 26,801 as of the 2010 census.
The Torrey pine is a rare pine species in California,United States. It is a critically endangered species growing only in coastal San Diego County,and on Santa Rosa Island,offshore from Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara County. The Torrey pine is endemic to the California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion.
The West Coast Conference (WCC) —known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and then as the West Coast Athletic Conference until 1989 —is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I consisting of nine member schools across the states of California,Oregon,and Washington.
The Santa Rosa Mountains are a short mountain range in the Peninsular Ranges system,located east of the Los Angeles Basin and northeast of the San Diego metropolitan area of southern California,in the southwestern United States.
Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres. Santa Rosa is located about 26 miles (42 km) off the coast of Santa Barbara,California in Santa Barbara County and is part of Channel Islands National Park.
The Santa Clara University School of Law is the law school of Santa Clara University,a Jesuit university in Santa Clara,California,United States,in the Silicon Valley region. The School of Law was founded in 1911. The Jesuit affiliation of the university is manifested in a concern with ethics,social justice,and community service.
Robert Francis Vasa is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. On Monday,January 24,2011,Vasa was named the coadjutor bishop to Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of the Diocese of Santa Rosa in California by Pope Benedict XVI. Until then,he had been the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Baker in Oregon. On June 30,2011,Walsh's resignation was accepted by Benedict XVI and Vasa succeeded him as bishop.
Barclay Henley was an attorney and politician who served two terms as United States Representative from California from 1883 to 1887.
Clarence Frederick Lea was an American lawyer and politician who served 16 terms as a U.S. Representative from California from 1917 to 1949.
Thomas J. Geary was a U.S. Representative from California from 1890 to 1895.
Thomas Jefferson Henley was a U.S. Representative from Indiana,father of Barclay Henley.
Santa Rosa Rancheria is the reservation of the Santa Rosa Indian Community of the Santa Rosa Rancheria. It is located 4.5 miles (7.24 km) southeast of Lemoore,California. Established in 1934 on about 40 acres,the Santa Rosa Rancheria belongs to the federally recognized Tachi Yokuts tribe. It is the site of the Tachi Palace Hotel &Casino. The population was 517 at the time of the 2000 United States Census and had increased to 652 by the 2010 United States Census. In 2010,288 residents were under 18 and 29 (4.4%) were 65 and over.
The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California,created in 1910,is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the northern part of California. It is in Province 8 and its cathedral,Trinity Episcopal Cathedral,is in Sacramento,as are the diocesan offices.
Luther Burbank was an American botanist,horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's developments included those of fruits,flowers,grains,grasses,and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot.
Clarence Thomas is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall,Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court and has been its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Since Stephen Breyer's retirement in 2022,he is also the Court's oldest member.
Clarence Atwell Jr. was an American Tachi Yokuts tribal leader and politician. He served as the Chairman of the Tachi Yokuts of Santa Rosa Rancheria from 1967 until 2009. Atwell has been widely credited with improving the standard of living on the Santa Rosa Rancheria reservation during his 42-year tenure as Chairman of the Tachi Yokuts.
Kanaye Nagasawa was an American winemaker in California,the first former Japanese national to live permanently in the United States,a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun,and a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris,the self-proclaimed "Father and Pivot and Primate and King of the Brotherhood of the New Life". Nagasawa followed Harris from New York out to Santa Rosa,California,where he eventually took over Harris' Fountaingrove estate. Nagasawa died in 1934,but the round barn he constructed at Fountaingrove was a landmark in Sonoma County.
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