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Spanish and Indian Place Names of California

by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

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Yolo

Yolo is the name of a county in the northern part of the Central Valley, and of a village near Woodland.

Yolo, or Yoloy, was the name of a Patwin tribe, and the word is said by the Bureau of Ethnology to mean “a place abounding with rushes.”

In 1884 there were still forty-five of the tribe living in Yolo County.

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