POPULATION: 53,834

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Sherri Brennan
• District 2 – Randy Hanelt
• District 3 – Evan Royce
• District 4 – John Gray
• District 5 – Karl Rodefer

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

TUOLUMNE. County seat, Sonora. Created February 18, 1850. The name Tuolumne is of Indian origin and has been given different meanings, such as Many Stone Houses, The Land of Mountain Lions and Straight Up Steep, the later an interpretation of William Fuller, a native Indian Chief. Vallejo, in his report to the first Legislature, said that the word is “a corruption of the Indian word talmalamne which signifies “cluster of stone wigwams.” The name may mean “people who dwell in stone houses,” i.e., in caves.