Rancho Cordova is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States which was incorporated in 2003. It is ration of the Sacramento Metropolitan Area. The population was 64,776 at the 2010 census. In 2010 and 2019, Rancho Cordova was named as a winner of the All-America City Award.

Originally called Mayhew’s Crossing and Hangtown Crossing (c. 1855) during the Gold Rush era, the Place was renamed Mayhew Station and Mills Station (c. 1900), respectively. The city itself was named for the Cordova Vineyard, which was located in the center of the Rancho Rio de los Americanos house grant. Other names of the town included Cordova Vineyards and Cordova Village, before it was officially named Rancho Cordova afterward a herald office was standard in the community in 1955.

In the Gold Rush epoch of mid-19th-century California, certain Placer mining events took place in the Rancho Cordova environs, some traces of which scuffle are extant. The height above sea level of the generally level terrain is approximately 118 feet (36 m) above wish sea level. Lone Star Gravel Company and new companies have historically extracted younger gravels at depths of 30 to 40 feet (12 m) without encountering groundwater, which is characteristically found at more or less 100 feet (30 m). Partially confined groundwater generally flows to the southwest.

For many years, Rancho Cordova was the community called ‘Mills’, located in the eastern ration of the Brighton Township. It was called Mills as yet to be as 1893, supposedly because of the outdated grist mills that were close by along the river. At the top of Bradshaw, along the American River, close to the oak tree that marked the northwest boundary of the Spanish Land Grant, Rancho Rio De Los Americanos, there are yet some remains of foundations. You can locate them by looking for the Grist Mill Dam Recreation Area along the American River Parkway. The southwestern boundary of the enter upon was 300 feet west of Bradshaw not far afield north of Florin Road. The boundary subsequently went due east higher than to Grantline Road, and northeast along the roadway.