Cholame

Cholame is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. It sits within a mile of the San Andreas Fault at an elevation of 1,157 feet above sea level and is located at 35°43′26″N 120°17′44″W. Cholame is reached via State Route 41, just southwest of the junction of Route 46. Rainfall data from a nearby ranch shows that the area around Cholame only receives about eight to nine inches of rain in a normal year.

Cholame was originally a rancheria of the Salinian Indians, Rancho Cholame was an 1844 Mexican land grant. In 1867 William Welles Hollister purchased Rancho Cholame. Hollister sold a half interest in the rancho to Robert Edgar Jack in 1869.

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