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Brooks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Yolo County, California, United States, located in the Capay Valley in the northwest of the county. Brooks' ZIP Code is 95606 and its area code 530. The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation is headquartered in Brooks. The town is home to a large casino, Cache Creek Casino Resort. It lies at an elevation of 341 feet (104 m). As of the 2020 census, Brooks had a population of 31. A post office was opened in Brooks in 1884. According to the Greater Capay Valley Historical Society, Brooks residents had to rely on passenger train service from the Vaca Valley and Clearlake Railroad at the train depots at the surrounding towns of Cadena…
Its first post office opened in 1884.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Brooks in 1893
Passages that mention Brooks, cut from the printed page as they were published.
there. The old Anthony House was in the second block east of the State House. Recruits for Brooks came up from the south to the Union Depot and those coming from the north and west landed there after crossing the bridge.
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under Wilshire and Newton, little John Whytock, de facto Judge of the Pulaski Circuit Court, called up the usurpation case of Brooks against Baxter, at the instance of Whipple, Benjamin and Burton, attorneys of Brooks, in the absence of the attorneys of Baxter,
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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