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The U.S. State of California is divided into 58 Counties . Counties are responsible for local services and law enforcement for areas within their borders that are not within incorporated Cites , as well as providing local-level Court s. First establishment of California counties On January 4 , 1850 , the California constitutional committee recommended the formation of 18 counties. They were Benicia, Butte, Fremont, Los Angeles, Mariposa, Monterey, Mount Diablo, Oro, Redding, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, and Sutter. On April 22 , the counties of Branciforte, Calaveras, Coloma, Colusi, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Trinity, and Yuba were added. Benicia was renamed Solano, Coloma to El Dorado, Fremont to Yola, Mt. Diablo to Contra Costa, San Jose to Santa Clara, Oro to Tuolumne, and Redding to Shasta. One of the first state legislative acts regarding counties was to rename Branciforte County to Santa Cruz, Colusi to Colusa, and Yola to Yolo. The last Californian county to have been established is Imperial County, California in 1907 . List of California counties
List of 58 Counties in the U.S. State of California : History of county creations and modifications Defunct counties
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