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Agua Caliente (hot water, hot springs), a village in Sonoma County, forty-five miles north of San Francisco.
Altúras (heights), the county-seat of Modoc County, 110 miles north of Reno.
Point Arena (sandy point), is the name of the cape on the Mendocino coast, and of the village in that county, 110 miles northwest of San Francisco.
Bodega (a surname), that of its discoverer, Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra, Captain of the schooner Sonora, who sailed into Bodega Bay October 3, 1775. This bay, and the town of Bodega Roads are in Sonoma County, about sixty-four miles northwest of San Francisco.
Point Cabrillo (a surname), that of the celebrated Spanish explorer, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.
Calistoga, one of those hybrid words of which California has too many. This word was the invention of Samuel Brannan, an early settler, and is compounded of the first syllable of California and the last of Saratoga. It is given here lest it be mistaken for Indian or Spanish.
Cazadero (hunting-place).
Chileno (Chilean, native of Chile).
Punta Delgada (thin or narrow point). See Punta Gorda.
Cape Fortunas (cape fortunes). Fortuna is a village in Humboldt County, twelve miles south of Eureka.
Del Norte (of the north), is the name of the county in the extreme northwestern corner of the state.
García (a surname), the name of a creek in Mendocino County.
Punta Gorda (thick or broad point). Punta Gorda and Punta Delgada are adjacent points on the northern coast whose contrast in shape is indicated by their names. See Punta Delgada.
Gualala, a village in Mendocino County, forty miles west of Cloverdale. This is an Indian word, “probably from walali, a generic term of the Pomo language, signifying the meeting-place of the waters of any in-flowing stream with those of the stream into which it flows, or with the ocean. The present spelling is probably influenced by the Spanish.”—(S. A. Barrett, in California Publications of Archaeology and Ethnology.)
Hoopa, a village in Humboldt County, on the Trinity River, was named for the Hupa Indians, a tribe on the lower Trinity River. Hoopa Mountain was named in the same way.
Point Laguna (lagoon point).
Oro Fino (fine gold), is the name of a village in Siskiyou County, twenty-five miles southwest of Yreka. This name is in contrast to the place called Oro Grande (coarse gold), in the southern part of the state.
Petaluma, the name of a town in Sonoma County, forty-two miles northwest of San Francisco. Petaluma was the name of an Indian village situated near the site of the present town on a low hill, and according to S. A. Barrett the word is compounded of peta (flat), and luma (back), making Petaluma (flat back), but Dr. Vallejo has another explanation of its meaning. He holds that the suffix ma means “valley” or “land,” and that Petaluma is a combination of three Suysun words, Pe-talu-ma, signifying “Oh! fair valley,” or “Oh! fair land.”—(Memoirs of the Vallejos, edited by James H. Wilkins, San Francisco Bulletin, January, 1914.)
Pomo is northeast of Ukiah. “Pomo was an Indian village on the east bank of the Russian River, in the southern end of Potter Valley, a short distance south of the post-office at Pomo. The word is an ending, meaning ‘people of, village of’.”—(S. A. Barrett.)
Tomales Bay is just north of Drake’s Bay, in Marin County. The word is a Spanish corruption of the Indian tamal (bay).
Ukiah is the county-seat of Mendocino County, and is on the Russian River, 110 miles northwest of San Francisco. “The word is said to be derived from the Indian yokaia, yo (south), and ka-ia (valley), the name of a village about six miles southeast of the present town of Ukiah.”
