POPULATION: 62,353

INCORPORATION DATE: 1874

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Dom Zanger
• District 2 – Kollin Kosmicki
• District 3 – Mindy Sotelo
• District 4 – Angela Curro
• District 5 – Bea Gonzales

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

SAN BENITO. County seat, Hollister. Created February 12, 1874. Named after San Benito Valley. Crespi, in his expedition in 1772, named a small river in honor of San Benidicto (Saint Benedict), the patron saint of the married, and it is from the contraction of this name that the county took its name.