Kenwood is positioned in California Kenwood - Kenwood One possible definition of Kenwood's center is this plaza.
Grape vines burgeoning along State Route 12 in Kenwood.
Kenwood, California is an unincorporated improve and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States, positioned on Sonoma Highway (State Route 12) between the metros/cities of Santa Rosa and Sonoma.
It lies east of Sonoma Creek in the upper part of Sonoma Valley, a region sometimes called the Valley of the Moon.
Like all of Sonoma County, Kenwood is considered part of the Wine Country.
The Kenwood region is known for vineyards and wineries, restaurants, and a European-style resort.
An region landmark is the Kunde Estate Winery on Sonoma Highway, which was first planted in 1879. Kenwood Plaza Park, positioned two blocks south of State Route 12 at 200 Warm Springs Road and Shaw Park, which is positioned at 100 Shaw Ave also off State Route 12.
Both are managed by the Sonoma County Regional Parks Department. Annadel State Park lies to the west, Hood Mountain Regional Park lies to the north, and Sugarloaf Ridge State Park lies to the northeast.
Further to the south lies Jack London State Historic Park.
Kenwood is positioned on the Rancho Los Guilicos Mexican territory grant.
The infant improve tried on many names: Rohrerville, for one of the owners of the territory company; Los Guilicos, and then South Los Guilicos, for the Mexican territory grant.
The initial name of the church was changed first to Los Guilicos Congregational Church and then to its current name Kenwood Community Church. In 1981, the church was designated Historic Landmark 82 by the County of Sonoma. One story says that Kenwood won because many of the pioneer had come from Kenwood, Illinois.
Another traces the choice to the fact that many landowners in the region were from old English families and so were familiar with London's Kenwood House.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Kenwood had a populace of 1,028.
The ethnic makeup of Kenwood was 930 (90.5%) White, 1 (0.1%) African American, 1 (0.1%) Native American, 23 (2.2%) Asian, 2 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 45 (4.4%) from other competitions, and 26 (2.5%) from two or more competitions.
There were 467 homeholds, out of which 90 (19.3%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 234 (50.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 31 (6.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 21 (4.5%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 148 citizens (14.4%) under the age of 18, 54 citizens (5.3%) aged 18 to 24, 153 citizens (14.9%) aged 25 to 44, 432 citizens (42.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 241 citizens (23.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
71.7% of the populace lived in owner-occupied housing units and 26.3% lived in rental housing units.
Western California Telephone Company provided telephone service to Kenwood, Los Gatos, Morgan Hill and Novato.
These four areas are now all served by Verizon. Part of Oakmont, a large residentiary evolution inside the town/city limits of Santa Rosa, is actually inside the Verizon service area, causing that portion to have Kenwood prefixes.
The region code for Kenwood is 707.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP covers an region of 5.2 square miles (13.4 km ), all of it land.
Climate data for Kenwood, CA Kenwood Vineyards Family Wineries Kenwood Kenwood Vineyards Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kenwood "Kenwood Plaza Park - Regional Parks - County of Sonoma, California".
"Kenwood Community Church History".
Kenwood Community Church.
"Historic Landmark 82: Kenwood Community Church".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Kenwood CDP".
"Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Oakville, CA (closest town/city on record to Kenwood, CA)".
Kenwood Fire Protection District home page.
Kenwood Community Club, a.k.a.
Kenwood Depot home page.
Municipalities and communities of Sonoma County, California, United States
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Census-designated places in Sonoma County, California - Sonoma Valley - California wine - Unincorporated communities in Sonoma County, California - Census-designated places in California - Unincorporated communities in California
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