Cloverdale, California

Cloverdale is a city in Sonoma County, California, about 85 miles north of San Francisco, and it is both the northernmost and westernmost city of the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2020 census counted 8,996 residents, and the city covers about 6.7 square kilometres of land in Wine Country, part of the Alexander Valley wine region. It began as a stagecoach stop called Markleville on a Mexican land grant, and after the property changed hands in 1856 and 1859 the town was laid out in 1859. It was incorporated when the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad arrived in 1872. In 1881 French settlers founded a short-lived Icarian utopian colony south of town. The Cloverdale Citrus Fair began in 1892, and the Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California is headquartered here. A highway bypass opened in 1994 changed the town centre.