POPULATION: 37,676

INCORPORATION DATE: 1854

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Patrick Crew
• District 2 – Richard Forster
• District 3 – Jeff Brown
• District 4 – Fred Axe
• District 5 – Brian Oneto

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

AMADOR. County seat, Jackson. Created June 14, 1854. The county is named for Jose Maria Amador, soldier, rancher and miner, who was born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador, a Spanish soldier who settled in California in 1771. In 1848, Jose Maria Amador, with several Indians, established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador. In Spanish, the word amador means “one who loves.”