Petaluma

city in Sonoma County, California, United States
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Summary

Petaluma is a city of California[1]. Petaluma draws 3,382 Wikipedia views per month (city of california category, ranking #22 of 87).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Association of Bay Area Governments[3], GovAI Coalition[4]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sonoma County[5]
  • Country: United States[6]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Petaluma River[7]
  • Continent: North America[8]
  • Instance of: charter city[9]
  • Shares border with: Penngrove[10]
  • Basic form of government: council–manager government[11]
  • Postal code: 94952[12], 94953[13], 94954[14], 94955[15], 94975[16], 94999[17]
  • Commons category: Petaluma, California[18]
  • Local dialing code: 707[19]
  • Inception: April 12, 1858[20]
  • Official website: http://cityofpetaluma.net/[21], https://cityofpetaluma.org/[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Petaluma, California[23]
  • Population: 58,921[24], 57,941[25], 59,776[26]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Petaluma, California[27]
  • Official name: Petaluma[28]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Petaluma, California[29]
  • Category for people who died here: Q43888687[30]
  • Number of households: 22,766[31]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Petaluma, California[32]
  • Owner of: Petaluma Reservoir[33], Petaluma Municipal Airport[34]
  • Elevation above sea level: 30 feet[35]
  • Area: 37.527687 km²[36], 37.526734 km²[37]
  • Water as percent of area: 0.74 percent[38]

Why It Matters

Petaluma has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Petaluma is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . cacities.org. Retrieved . cacities.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [4] ↑ . sanjoseca.gov. Retrieved . sanjoseca.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · BrokenSegue · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → Flag of Petaluma, California.gif
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'azb', 'be', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'cs', 'dag', 'd
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Flag image: Flag of Petaluma, California.gif"
  2. 20w ago · Mxn · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Per capita income → {'unit': 'Q4917', 'amount': '+46303'}
    Member of → Association of Bay Area Governments, GovAI Coalition
    Located in the statistical territorial entity → Santa Rosa–Petaluma metropolitan area, San Francisco Bay Area
    Instance of → city of California, charter city
    + 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Member of: GovAI Coalition, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/258464|batch #258464]]"
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