City of Sebastopol Main Street in Downtown Sebastopol Main Street in Downtown Sebastopol Location in Sonoma County and the State of California Location in Sonoma County and the State of California City of Sebastopol is positioned in the US City of Sebastopol - City of Sebastopol Sebastopol /s b st po l/ or /s b st pu l/ is a town/city in Sonoma County, California, United States, approximately 52 mi (80 km) north of San Francisco.
The populace was 7,379 at the 2010 census, but its businesses also serve encircling rural portions of Sonoma County, a region known as West County, which has a populace of up to 50,000 residents. The town/city hosts an annual Apple Blossom Festival and Gravenstein Apple Fair. The town of Sebastopol formed in the 1850s with a U.S.
As California's populace swelled after the westward migration[which?] and the California Gold Rush of 1848-1855, more and more pioneer drifted into the fertile California valleys north of San Francisco to try their hand at farming.
There is some debate about how the name "Sebastopol" came into use in Sonoma County.
At one time, four other California suburbs were also titled Sebastopol: The town in Sonoma County originally had the name Pinegrove; the name change (according to rumor) had something to do with a bar fight in the late 1850s, which was linked[by whom?] to the long British siege of the seaport of Sevastopol (1854-1855) amid the Crimean War of 1853-1856.
Sebastopol became known as the "Gravenstein Apple Capital of the World".
In 1890 the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad connected Sebastopol to the nationwide rail network. The town was incorporated in 1902, with schools, churches, hotels, canneries, mills, wineries, and an opera home to its credit.
The 1906 earthquake reduced most of these early buildings to rubble (Sebastopol is only seven miles from the town/city of Santa Rosa, the worst-hit town in the 1906 earthquake), but as elsewhere in the county, the town was rebuilt.
With greater personal mobility and the rise of larger shopping centers in other Sonoma County communities, many inhabitants now often commute to work and shop in the neighboring suburbs of Rohnert Park or Santa Rosa, while Sebastopol maintains its small-town charm. It is often incorrectly claimed that Sebastopol was the last town in Northern California to have working barns trains on Main Street.
This was documented by Analy High School students in a 1979 video Our Train Down Main: a History of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad.
Its downtown is at the intersection of State Route 12 and State Route 116 (Gravenstein Highway), approximately 9 mi (14 km) west of U.S.
Sebastopol is situated on the edge of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, which is fed by Santa Rosa Creek and other tributaries, including three minor tributaries inside the town/city limits Zimpher Creek, Calder Creek and Witter Creek.
The Laguna is a wetland region that is home to many species of wildlife and vegetation, and divides the town from the neighboring Santa Rosa.
Nearly every winter the Laguna floods, cutting off State Route 12, and often flooding the low-lying businesses and homes on the easterly side of Sebastopol.
The town/city has a total region of 1.9 sq mi (4.9 km2), all land. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Sebastopol had a populace of 7,379.
The ethnic makeup of Sebastopol was 6,509 (88.2%) White, 72 (1.0%) African American, 60 (0.8%) Native American, 120 (1.6%) Asian, 19 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 298 (4.0%) from other competitions, and 301 (4.1%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 98.3% of the populace lived in homeholds and 1.7% were institutionalized.
There were 3,276 homeholds, out of which 902 (27.5%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 1,220 (37.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 478 (14.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 156 (4.8%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
1,132 homeholds (34.6%) were made up of individuals and 498 (15.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The populace was spread out with 1,515 citizens (20.5%) under the age of 18, 471 citizens (6.4%) aged 18 to 24, 1,587 citizens (21.5%) aged 25 to 44, 2,525 citizens (34.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,281 citizens (17.4%) who were 65 years of age or older.
53.7% of the populace lived in owner-occupied housing units and 44.5% lived in rental housing units.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $60,322 (+29.9% from 2000), and the median income for a family was $74,020 (+32.7% from 2000).
The median per capita income for the town/city was $29,470 (+28.8% from 2000).
For comparison, statewide California median per capita income in the 2010 Enumeration was $27,885 (+22.8% from 2000).
As of the census of 2000, there were 7,774 citizens , 3,250 homeholds, and 1,953 families residing in the city.
There were 3,250 homeholds out of which 31.8% encompassed kids under the age of 18 in the home, 41.5% were married couples living together, 14.2% were led by a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.9% were other living arrangements.
31.8% of all homeholds were made up of a single individual and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The percent distribution on the 2000 census by age was as follows: 23.6% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 27.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $46,436, and the median income for a family was $55,792.
About 4.7% of families and 6.9% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 6.7% of those under age 18 and 6.0% of those age 65 or over.
West County Museum, directed by the Western Sonoma County Historical Society in the former Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railroad passenger depot.
The city's laws are enforced by the Sebastopol Police Department.
City council competitions are not partisan, so each member does not officially represent any party, however since 2000 there has been a decent amount of consideration given to the individual party membership of town/city council members in Sebastopol.
This happened because in 2000, with the election of Craig Litwin and Sam Spooner to the town/city council, the town had a Green Party majority or would have, if town/city council competitions were partisan.
This was only the second time this had ever happened in California, the first being the town of Arcata, California in 1996.
In 1986, the people allowed an initiative declaring Sebastopol a "Nuclear Free Zone", The town does not use pesticides in town/city landscaping, and a several years back, when the police needed a new vehicle, the town/city council voted to purchase a hybrid freshwater a standard police car.
Current issues facing the town/city include a high cost of living and ongoing problem with traffic (the town has two highways going through downtown).
In the California State Legislature, Sebastopol is in the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Marc Levine, and California's 2nd State Senate district, represented by Mike Mc - Guire.
Federally, Sebastopol is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Film locations in Sonoma County, California "California Cities by Incorporation Date" (Word).
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"City of Sebastopol, California".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Sebastopol city".
"Sebastopol City Council".
City of Sebastopol, California.
"California Pot Clinic Owner Turns Mayor, 1st in Country".
"California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
"- ACLU of Northern California" (PDF).
Sebastopol, CA: Analy High School, 1979.
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