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Calaveras County
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county in California, United States
Calaveras County is a county located in California's Sierra Nevada foothills region, known historically for gold mining during the 1800s. Today it remains a rural area in central California with small communities and natural attractions in the mountains.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Calaveras County is referenced by 1,668 other articles, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Angels Camp and United States Census Bureau.
The entry is geolocated on the map in CA.
It is catalogued under topics including 1850 establishments in California, Calaveras County, California and California counties.
Its subject is documented across 62 Wikipedia language editions.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Government
- Founded
- 1850
- Location
- San Andreas, United States
- Status
- Active
ISNI 0000 0004 0638 5490
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- California
- Contains
- San Andreas
- Capital
- San Andreas
- Population
- 45292
- Area
- 2685
- Shares border with
- Alpine County
- Official website
- www.calaverasgov.us
- Image
- Calaveras County CA.jpg
- Households
- 16958
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- Commons category
- Calaveras County, California
- topic's main category
- Category:Calaveras County, California
- inception
- 1850-00-00
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- water as percent of area
- 1.64
- native label
- Calaveras County
- per capita income
- 33027
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Encyclopedic overview
Calaveras County (Calaveras, Spanish for "Skulls"; /ˌkæləˈvɛrəs/ ), officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,292. The county seat is San Andreas. Angels Camp is the county's only incorporated city. The county was reportedly named for the remains of Native Americans discovered by the Spanish explorer Captain Gabriel Moraga in 1806.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a preserve of giant sequoia trees, is in the county several miles east of the town of Arnold on State Highway 4. Credit for the discovery of giant sequoias there is given to Augustus T. Dowd, a trapper who made the discovery in 1852 while tracking a bear. When the bark from the "Discovery Tree" was removed and taken on tour around the world, the trees became a worldwide sensation and one of the county's first tourist attractions. The uncommon gold telluride mineral calaverite was discovered in the county in 1861 and is named for it.
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