POPULATION: 3,201

INCORPORATION DATE: 1850

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: 

• District 1 – Lee Adams
• District 2 – Lila Heuer
• District 3 – Paul Roen
• District 4 – Terry LeBlanc
• District 5 – Sharon Dryden

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

SIERRA. County seat, Downieville. Created April 16, 1852. Sierra nevada in Spanish means “snow saw,” applied to the Sierra Nevada mountain chain because of the jagged, serrated, sawtooth peaks forming the skyline.