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Welcome to Yolo County
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Brief
History:
Yolo County is north west of
Sacramento County and is known for its
fertile soil. The County's entire eastern
boundary is the
Sacramento River and its western
boundary is a chain of coastal mountains.
The plain in between contains rich soil that
has
built up from centuries of winter run
off and flooding from the Sacramento River.
The name Yolo is derived from the
Patwin Indian word Yolo, which means place
of the rushes. The entire west bank of the
Sacramento River once had great fields
of tule rushes and the county abounded with
swamplands, marshes, and sloughs.
The California Gold Rushes of 1848 and
1850 brought an increase in population in
Yolo County. Some immigrants to the
county prospected for gold, but most
realized early on that any fortune to be
made in Yolo County would be through farming
and ranching.
Yolo was one of the original counties
when California became a state on September
9, 1850. The town of Fremont, south of
present-day Knights Landing on the
Sacramento River, was named the county seat,
as it was the only organized town in Yolo
County at the time. Fremont suffered
from severe flood damage and, in 1851, the
county seat was moved to the town of
Washington (later called Broderick)
across the river from Sacramento.
By 1857, the population in Yolo had
grown and a more centrally located county
seat was desired. A small community on
Cache Creek called Huttons’, (named
for James Hutton, who had built a large
house there) was finally laid out and named
as
the county seat. It was named
Cacheville at that time, but later came to
be known as the Town of Yolo.
In 1860, the county seat was moved
back to Washington, but the 1862 floods in
Washington prompted voters to move the
county seat to the newly organized
town of Woodland. Woodland was centrally
located in the county. It has remained the
county seat ever since.
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