POPULATION: 897,806

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Connie Chan
• District 2 – Catherine Stefani
• District 3 – Aaron Peskin
• District 4 – Joel Engardio
• District 5 – Dean Preston
• District 6 – Matt Dorsey
• District 7 – Myrna Melgar
• District 8 – Rafael Mandelman
• District 9 – Hillary Ronen
• District 10 – Shamann Walton
• District 11 – Ahsha Safai

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Charter

SAN FRANCISCO. County seat, San Francisco. Created February, 18, 1850. The sixth mission in California was established here by Padre Junipero Serra on October 9, 1776, and was named Mission San Francisco de Asis a la Laguna de los Dolores (Saint Francis of Assisi at the Lagoon of Sorrows). The mission is now known as “Mission Dolores.”