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Tuolumne County

Sonora

Sonora is a city of 4,900 people in in . As the closest city to Yosemite National Park, Sonora provides services to some of Yosemite's visitors.
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  • Type: Town with 4,650 residents
  • Description: city and county seat of Tuolumne County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Sonora, CA”, “Sonora, California”, “Sonorian Camp”, and “Stewart”
  • Postal code: 95370

Places of Interest

Highlights include Adventist Health Sonora and Jewish Cemetery.

Hospital
Adventist Health is a Seventh-day Adventist nonprofit organization headquartered in , that operates facilities in 3 states across the .

Cemetery
The Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, also known as Pioneer , is an inactive founded in c. 1851, and located in Sonora, . This was the first in the region.

Church
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St. James' Episcopal Church, also known as The Red Church, is an historic Episcopal church building, formerly Anglican, located at 42 Snell Street, in Sonora, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Columbia.

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is an unincorporated community in , United States. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, was designated a California Historical Landmark on March 16, 1949.

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is a census-designated place located in the Sierra Nevada foothills in , , United States. It was founded as a boomtown in 1850 when gold was found during the California Gold Rush, and was known as the "Gem of the Southern Mines." The town's historic central district is within the State Historic Park, which preserves the 19th century mining town legacy.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community located in . It is a former California Gold Rush boomtown in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and is now designated as a California Historical Landmark. is situated 3 miles northwest of Sonora.

Sonora

Latitude
37.9853° or 37° 59′ 7″ north
Longitude
-120.3835° or 120° 23′ 1″ west
Population
4,650
Elevation
1,785 feet (544 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SOR
Open location code
849XXJP8+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150954393
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5397165
Wiki­data ID
Q953567
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Sonora” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سونورا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sonora”
  • Basque: “Sonora”
  • Belarusian: “Санора”
  • Bulgarian: “Сонора”
  • Catalan: “Sonora”
  • Cebuano: “Sonora (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, California)”
  • Cebuano: “Sonora”
  • Chechen: “Сонора”
  • Chinese: “Sonora”
  • Chinese: “索诺拉”
  • Chinese: “索諾拉”
  • Croatian: “Sonora”
  • Czech: “Sonora”
  • Danish: “Sonora”
  • Dutch: “Sonora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سونورا”
  • Esperanto: “Sonora”
  • Finnish: “Sonora”
  • French: “Sonora”
  • German: “Sonora”
  • Gilaki: “سؤنؤرا”
  • Haitian: “Sonora, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Sonora”
  • Hungarian: “Sonora”
  • Irish: “Sonora”
  • Italian: “Sonora”
  • Japanese: “ソノラ”
  • Korean: “소노라”
  • Ladin: “Sonora”
  • Malagasy: “Sonora, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Sonora”
  • Malayalam: “സൊനോറ, കാലിഫോർണിയ”
  • Malayalam: “സൊനോറ”
  • Mazanderani: “سونورا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sonora”
  • Navajo: “Tsintah Nílį́”
  • Newari: “सोनारा (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “सोनारा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “सोनारा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sonora”
  • Norwegian: “Sonora”
  • Pampanga: “Sonora, California”
  • Pampanga: “Sonora”
  • Persian: “سونورا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “سونورا”
  • Polish: “Sonora”
  • Portuguese: “Sonora”
  • Russian: “Сонора”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sonora”
  • Serbian: “Sonora”
  • Serbian: “Сонора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sonora, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sonora”
  • Slovak: “Sonora”
  • Slovenian: “Sonora”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سونورا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Sonora (California)”
  • Spanish: “Sonora”
  • Swedish: “Sonora, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Sonora”
  • Tagalog: “Sonora, California”
  • Tagalog: “Sonora”
  • Talysh: “Sonora”
  • Tatar: “Сонора (Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Сонора”
  • Turkish: “Sonora, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Sonora”
  • Ukrainian: “Сонора”
  • Urdu: “سونورا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Sonora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sonora, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sonora”

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