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Sacramento County is a county
of the U.S. state of
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California. The county seat is the city of Sacramento, the state capital. As of 2000 the population was 1,223,499.
Sacramento County covers about 994 square miles in the middle of the Central Valley, California's prime agricultural region. Sacramento County extends from the low delta lands between the Sacramento and
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San Joaquin Rivers north to about ten miles beyond the State Capitol and east to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The
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southernmost portion of Sacramento County has direct access to the San Francisco Bay.
Sacramento County was one of the
original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
The county was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border. The river was named by Spanish cavalry officer Gabriel Moraga for the Santisimo Sacramento (Most Holy Sacrament), referring to the Eucharist.
Alexander Hamilton
Willard of the Lewis and Clark Expedition is buried in the old Franklin Cemetery.