Place:Colusa, California, United States

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NameColusa
Alt namesColusasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates39.183°N 122.267°W
Located inCalifornia, United States     (1850 - )
See alsoGlenn, California, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Lake, California, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Tehama, California, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Colusa Community Cemetery
Williams Cemetery
Census-designated place
Arbuckle
Inhabited place
Arbee
Bonnie View
Boyers Landing
Cayley
College City
Colusa
Delevan
Devils Elbow
Fouts Springs
Fraziers Landing
Graino
Grand Island
Grimes
Leesville
Lodoga
Maxwell
Midway
Millers Landing
Mills Orchards
Princeton
Sites
Stegeman
Stonyford
Sycamore
West Butte
Wilbur Springs
Williams
Township
Spring Valley
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Colusa County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,839. The county seat is Colusa. It is in the Central Valley of California, northwest of the state capital, Sacramento.

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History

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Colusa County is one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Tehama County in 1856 and to Glenn County in 1891.

The county was named after the 1844 Rancho Colus Mexican land grant to John Bidwell. The name of the county in the original state legislative act of 1850 was spelled Colusi, and often in newspapers was spelled Coluse. The word is derived from the name of a Patwin village known as Ko'-roo or Korusi located on the west side of the Sacramento River on the site of the present-day city of Colusa. The name was established as Colusa by 1855.[1]

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Early history

Present-day Colusa County was originally home to the Patwin band of the Wintun people, whose territory included areas along the Sacramento River as well as lands extending west towards Lake County, bounded in the north by the sources of Stony Creek near Stonyford and in the south by Putah Creek.

Linguistically, the Patwin people in the Colusa area spoke two dialects of the Southern Wintuan language. River Patwin was spoken in villages along the Sacramento River, including at Korusi, site of the present city of Colusa. Hill Patwin was spoken in the plains and foothills to the west.[2]

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European settlement

Present-day Colusa County was included as part of three Mexican land grants: John Bidwell's smaller 1845 Rancho Colus grant, which included the modern city of Colusa; the larger 1844 Rancho Jimeno grant, which surrounded the Colus grant;[3] and the 1844 Larkin's Children grant, located upriver from Colusa near the present town of Princeton, California.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1844 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1850 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1850 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1853 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1873 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1900 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1850 115
1860 2,274
1870 6,165
1880 13,118
1890 14,640
1900 7,364
1910 7,732
1920 9,290
1930 10,258
1940 9,788
1950 11,651
1960 12,075
1970 12,430
1980 12,791
1990 16,275
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Colusa County, California, United States

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