Talk:List of California county name etymologies

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We might want to make sure that what this page says jibes with what each of the individual county articles says. I wrote most of them, which I got from the invididual county articles. For example, Amador County says:

The county is named for Jose Maria Amador, soldier, rancher and miner, who was born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador, a Spanish soldier who settled in California in 1771. In 1848, Jose Maria Amador, with several Native Americans, established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador. In Spanish, the word amador means "one who loves."

This is different from what this page says. Rick K 19:49, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Origin of "Orange County"[edit]

Orange County is not named for the City of Orange. That error has been corrected.--Truthiness 03:35, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]