Santa Cruz County (California)
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| County of Santa Cruz | |||||||
Images, from top down, left to right: The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in 2005, a walkway through redwood groves in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in 2008, Downtown Watsonville in 2010, Davenport Beach in 2006.
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| Coordinates: 37°02′N 122°01′W / 37.03°N 122.01°WCoordinates: 37°02′N 122°01′W / 37.03°N 122.01°W | |||||||
| Country |  United States of America |
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| Region | Central Coast | ||||||
| CSA | San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland | ||||||
| Incorporated | February 18, 1850 | ||||||
| Named for | Mission Santa Cruz and the city of Santa Cruz, both named after the Exaltation of the Cross | ||||||
| County seat | Santa Cruz | ||||||
| Largest city | Santa Cruz | ||||||
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| • Total | 607 sq mi (1,570 km2) | ||||||
| • Land | 445 sq mi (1,150 km2) | ||||||
| • Water | 162 sq mi (420 km2) | ||||||
| Highest elevation | 3,234 ft (986 m) | ||||||
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |||||||
| • Total | 262,382 | ||||||
| • Estimate (2016) | 274,673 | ||||||
| • Density | 430/sq mi (170/km2) | ||||||
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8) | ||||||
| • Summer (DST) | Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) | ||||||
| Area code | 831 | ||||||
| FIPS code | 06-087 | ||||||
| GNIS feature ID | 277308 | ||||||
| Website | www |
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Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 262,382. The county seat is Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is on the California Central Coast, south of the San Francisco Bay Area region. The county forms the northern coast of the Monterey Bay, with Monterey County forming the southern coast.
Santa Cruz County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. In the original act, the county was given the name of "Branciforte" after the Spanish pueblo founded there in 1797. A major watercourse in the county, Branciforte Creek, still bears this name. Less than two months later on April 5, 1850, the name was changed to "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross").
Mission Santa Cruz, established in 1791 and completed in 1794, was destroyed by the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, but a smaller-scale replica was erected in 1931.
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