POPULATION: 222,705

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Oscar Villegas
• District 2 – Lucas Frerichs
• District 3 – Mary Vixie Sandy
• District 4 – Jim Provenza
• District 5 – Angel Barajas

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

YOLO. County seat, Woodland. Created February 18, 1850. In the original act of 1850 the name was spelled “Yola.” Yolo is an Indian name variously believed to be a corruption of an Indian tribal name Yo-loy meaning “a place abounding in rushes” or of the name of the Indian chief, Yodo, or of the Indian village of Yodoi.