MERGE WITH CLERK-RECORDER-ASSESSOR RECORDS -- Sonoma County Assessor's Office records,
Scope and Contents
Official records of taxes, assessments and property files for roads, subdivisions and manufactured homes.
Dates
- Creation: 1873-1998
- Creation: Majority of material found in 1873
Creator
- Sonoma County (Calif.). Assessor's Office (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
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 link to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Publication Rights
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 link
Extent
59 volumes; 8 microfilm reels; 26 boxes
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.
Arrangement of the collection
Organized into seven series:
- Special road tax--Petaluma Township, 1873/1874-1874/1875
- Assessment book of the property of Petaluma road district for the year ..., 1874-1875
- Assessment roll of the Healdsburg and Pine Flat Road District, 1874-1877
- Sonoma County tax assessment, 1900-1974
- Wildcat subdivisions--assessment ledgers, 1910-1915
- Assessment appeals--geothermal (ASAP-0040), 1973, 1982-1998
- 7.Property files--manufactured homes (ASAP-0050), 1981-1992
Arranged variously chronologically, by district or by Assessor's Parcel Number (APN)
Subject
Genre / Form
- Archival materials
- County government records
- Ledgers (account books)
- Tax records
- Taxes (political concept)
Geographic
Topical
- Geothermal power plants -- California -- Sonoma County
- Mobile homes -- Taxation -- California -- Sonoma County
- Real estate development -- California -- Russian River Area
- Real property -- Valuation -- California -- Sonoma County -- Records and correspondence
- Real property tax -- California -- Sonoma County -- Records and correspondence
- Tax assessment -- California -- Healdsburg
- Tax assessment -- California -- Sonoma County
- Tax assessment -- California -- Sonoma County -- Records and correspondence
- Taxation -- California -- Petaluma
- Title
- MERGED WITH CLERK-RECORDER-ASSESSOR -- Sonoma County Assessor's Office records. Sonoma County Assessor's Office records, 1873-1998
- Author
- Finding aid author: Mark Cooper.
- Date
- Published Feb 28, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County Archives Repository