POPULATION: 18,067

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Rosemarie Smallcombe
• District 2 – Shannon Poe
• District 3 – Danette Toso
• District 4 – Wayne Forsythe
• District 5 – Miles Menetrey

*Denotes Chair of the Board

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

MARIPOSA. County seat, Mariposa. Created February 18, 1850. The county took its name from Mariposa Creek. The area was so named by Spanish explorers in 1807 when they discovered great clusters of butterflies (“mariposas” in Spanish) in the foothills of the Sierras. Some say these butterflies were really butterfly lilies.