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Mariposa is located at 37°29′06″N 119°57′59″W, [2] at 1,949 feet (594 m) in elevation. It lies in the rugged foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Mariposa Creek flows through the town. Soils in the urban area are mostly brown to reddish brown loam of the Blasingame series.
Location of Mariposa County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mariposa County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mariposa County, California, United States.
Mariposa County ( / ˌmærɪˈpoʊzə, - sə / ⓘ) [ 4] is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,131. [ 5] The county seat is Mariposa. [ 6] It is located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north of Fresno, east of Merced, and southeast of Stockton .
Curry Village. Curry Village is a resort in Mariposa County, California [2] in Yosemite National Park within the Yosemite Valley . A rockfall in 2008 damaged a number of structures, and about one third of visitor units were closed because of risk. In 2012, eight visitors to the park developed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and three died.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in Mariposa County, California.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Rancho Las Mariposas was a 44,387-acre (179.63 km 2) Mexican land grant in Alta California, located in present-day Mariposa County, California . It was granted in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Juan Bautista Alvarado. [1] The grant takes its name from Mariposa Creek, which was named for the monarch butterflies (butterfly = "mariposas ...
"Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley, California" by Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1872 Chief George Dick. The Ahwahnechee or Ahwahneechee are a Native American people who traditionally lived in the Yosemite Valley and still live in the surrounding area. They are the seven tribes of Yosemite Miwok, Northern Paiute, Kucadikadi Mono Lake people ...
Mariposa Creek, originally called the Mariposa River, [1] is a creek that has its source in Mariposa County, California. It flows through the town of Mariposa then southwest through the Sierra foothills, into and across the San Joaquin Valley in Merced County, and empties the sloughs of the San Joaquin River south of the city of Merced .