Mark West is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
immediately north of
Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay A ...
in
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 488,863. Its seat of government and largest city is Santa Rosa.
Sonoma County comprises the Santa Rosa-Petaluma ...
, United States. Mark West is located along Mark West Springs Road adjacent to
U.S. Highway 101. The community of Mark West is named for
Scottish American
pioneer William Marcus West.
After the
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad was extended to
Cloverdale in the 1870s, its trains stopped in Mark West.
See also
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Larkfield-Wikiup, California
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Mark West Creek
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Mark West Springs
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Northwestern Pacific Railroad
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Sonoma County, California
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