About Cotati, California

Cotati is a city of 7,584 people in Sonoma County, the smallest incorporated community in the county. Coast Miwok people lived here for thousands of years, and the town's name comes from their village of Kotati. In July 1844 the government of Mexico gave Rancho Cotate, a grant that also covered present-day Penngrove and Rohnert Park, to Captain Juan Castaneda to pay him for serving under General Vallejo.

Castaneda moved to San Francisco and never developed the land, so he lost it for failing to meet the terms of the grant. Thomas Larkin owned it next, followed by Joseph Ruckle, who sold it in 1849 to Dr. Thomas Stokes Page for $1,600, and Page received a patent for 17,238 acres in 1858. His family grazed cattle and sheep on the ranch for more than eighty years. In October 1870 the first railroad between Petaluma and Santa Rosa came through, and a town grew up around its wood and water stop, first called Page's Station and later Cotati.

“Cotati's hexagonal town plan, one of only two such in the United States, was designed during the 1890s by Newton Smyth as an alternative to the traditional grid.”
California Office of Historic Preservation
  • A plaza where the barn stoodDr. Page's barn once stood on the ground that is now the downtown plaza, and each street around the plaza carries the name of one of his sons. In 1892 the family formed the Cotati Land Company to sell off the ranch in parcels of five to twenty acres, and Page family ownership finally ended in 1944. The plaza is California Historical Landmark number 879.
  • Highway 101 on Main StreetBefore 1915 the main north and south roads went around Cotati. That year the state routed the Redwood Highway along the mostly unpaved Cotati Boulevard, and U.S. 101 crossed the plaza in the heart of town until 1955, when it shifted farther west. The old route is now Old Redwood Highway.
  • A board speedway in 1921Around 1921 the Cotati Speedway went up near the railroad depot, a wooden track for auto racing about 1.25 miles around. Drivers set world records there, but the track lost money in its single season and came down in 1922.
  • A city by vote in 1963Rohnert Park, to the north, had become a city less than a year earlier when Cotati voters went to the polls on July 2, 1963, and chose 284 to 41 to make their town a city of its own. The schoolhouse on West Sierra, built in 1922 after the old school burned in February 1921, became City Hall in 1971.

Find your street

Names on the Cotati map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • Cotati City Hall

Streets and roads116

  • Gravenstein Highway
  • Windmill Farms Drive
  • Old Redwood Highway
  • Commerce Boulevard
  • East Cotati Avenue
  • Olaf Street
  • Henry Street
  • Eagle Drive
  • George Street
  • Redwood Drive
  • McGinnis Circle
  • West School Street
  • West Cotati Avenue
  • West Sierra Avenue
  • Cypress Avenue
  • Helman Lane
  • Myrtle Avenue
  • Gravenstein Way
  • Wilford Lane
  • Water Road
  • Portal Street
  • Valparaiso Avenue
  • Lasalle Avenue
  • Maple Avenue
  • Veronda Avenue
  • Santero Way
  • Derby Lane
  • Lund Hill Lane
  • Lakewood Avenue
  • Saint Joseph Way
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  • La Plaza
  • Loretto Avenue
  • Lincoln Avenue
  • Aaron Street
  • Madrone Avenue
  • Blodgett Street
  • Aguirre Way
  • Larch Avenue
  • East School Street
  • Alder Avenue
  • Hahn Way
  • Richardson Lane
  • John Roberts Drive
  • Ryan Lane
  • Locust Avenue
  • Eucalyptus Avenue
  • Page Street
  • El Rancho Drive
  • Benson Lane
  • Mercantile Drive
  • Clothier Lane
  • Keyt Way
  • Gilman Ranch Road
  • Honor Place
  • Macklin Drive
  • Park Avenue
  • Fehler Lane
  • Linden Avenue
  • Ross Street
  • Charles Street
  • Arthur Street
  • Sycamore Lane
  • Logan Place
  • Marsh Way
  • Oak Circle
  • Ford Lane
  • Clifford Street
  • Nelson Lane
  • Hillview Drive
  • Lark Drive
  • Falcon Drive
  • Wren Drive
  • Issel Court
  • William Street
  • Matteri Circle
  • Loma Linda Drive
  • Houser Street
  • Oretsky Way
  • Gilbert Way
  • Lipton Way
  • Cervantes Court
  • Flamingo
  • East Sierra Avenue
  • Tompkins Road
  • Juniper Drive
  • Keppel Way
  • Lebec Lane
  • Greenleaf Lane
  • Robin Avenue
  • Baytree Court
  • Breen Way
  • Forno Way
  • Creek Court
  • Silver Drive
  • Arbor Court
  • Amber Lane
  • Lasker Lane
  • Cohen Court
  • Delano Street
  • Nina Court
  • Sunflower Drive
  • Wilford Circle
  • Kingston Way
  • Madrone Place
  • Aguirre Court
  • Olsen Lane
  • Honor Court
  • Jagle Street
  • Pine Tree Circle
  • Cotati Oaks Court West
  • Crystal Drive
  • Ahlstrom Circle
  • Dyquiato Way
  • Benedetti Court
  • Skilling Court
  • Mackinnon Court

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