Mariposa County Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in California, United States
About Mariposa County
Rural Mariposa County has no incorporated cities, and in fact does not even have a permanent traffic light within its borders. The county was one of the eight original counties of California when statehood was granted in 1850, and while it was originally the state's largest county, over the years has ceded most of its territory to twelve other counties, giving it the nickname "the Mother of Counties". The county is named after Mariposa Creek, which was named by Spanish explorers after the great clusters of butterflies ("mariposas" in Spanish) that they found.
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