Settlements in Sonoma County, California: Santa Rosa, California

Chapters: Santa Rosa, California. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 204. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Santa Rosa, California - Santa Rosa is located at (38.448611, -122.704722) in Sonoma County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 40.37 sq mi (104.6 km), of which 40.13 sq mi (103.9 km) is land and 0.25 sq mi (0.6 km) (0.62%) is water. The city is part of the North Bay region, which includes such cities as Sonoma, Healdsburg and Sebastopol. It lies along the US Route 101 corridor, approximately 55 miles (90 km) north of San Francisco, via the Golden Gate Bridge. Santa Rosa lies on the Santa Rosa Plain; its eastern extremities stretch into the Valley of the Moon, and the Sonoma Creek watershed known as the Sonoma Valley, while its western edge lies in the Laguna de Santa Rosa catchment basin. The city is in the watershed of Santa Rosa Creek, which rises on Hood Mountain and discharges to the Laguna de Santa Rosa. Tributary basins to Santa Rosa Creek lying significantly in the city are Brush Creek, Matanzas Creek, Colgan Creek and Piner Creek. Other water bodies within the city include Fountaingrove Lake, Lake Ralphine, and Santa Rosa Creek Reservoir. The prominent visual feature is Hood Mountain seen to the east. To the southeast, Taylor Mountain and Sonoma Mountain are readily visible from much of the city. Restaurants and other retail stores occupy several historic buildings in Santa Rosa's Railroad Square district in the downtown area, including these along Fourth Street.Santa Rosa has cool, wet winters and warm, mostly dry summers. In the summer, fog and low overcast often moves in from the Pacific Ocean during the evenings and mornings. It usually clears to warm, sunny weather by late morning or noon before returning in the later evenin...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=108243