Sonoma County Assessor's Office records, 1873-1998 1873 (bulk)

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Summary

Creators:
Sonoma County (Calif.) Assessor's Office
Abstract:
This collection contains records created by the Sonoma County (Calif.) Assessor's Office. Records include documents pertaining to road and property taxes; land assessments, including geothermal issues. records include: Assessment book of the property of Petaluma road district for the year 1874-75. Record of delinquent taxpayers and sales of property for delinquent taxes for 1874-75. Records necessary to value geothermal rights. Includes geological, historical, and valuation information, appraisal and appeal documents, correspondence, etc. File of current and historical data for rural, residential and commercial properties.
Extent:
59 volumes; 8 microfilm reels; 26 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Sonoma County Assessor's Office records, 1873-1998. SCG.00033, Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library, Santa Rosa, CA

Background

Scope and content:

Official records of taxes, assessments and property files for roads, subdivisions and manufactured homes.

Arrangement of the collection

Organized into seven series:

  1. Special road tax--Petaluma Township, 1873/1874-1874/1875
  2. Assessment book of the property of Petaluma road district for the year ..., 1874-1875
  3. Assessment roll of the Healdsburg and Pine Flat Road District, 1874-1877
  4. Sonoma County tax assessment, 1900-1974
  5. Wildcat subdivisions--assessment ledgers, 1910-1915
  6. Assessment appeals--geothermal (ASAP-0040), 1973, 1982-1998
  7. 7.Property files--manufactured homes (ASAP-0050), 1981-1992

Arranged variously chronologically, by district or by Assessor's Parcel Number (APN)

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition DACS

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at 707 308-3212 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo

Preferred citation:

Sonoma County Assessor's Office records, 1873-1998. SCG.00033, Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library, Santa Rosa, CA

Location of this collection:
6135 State Farm Drive
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 545-0831
digital@sonomalibrary.org
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