Place:Amador, California, United States

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NameAmador
Alt namesAmadorsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates38.45°N 120.65°W
Located inCalifornia, United States     (1854 - )
See alsoAlpine, California, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Calaveras, California, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
El Dorado, California, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Mono, California, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Allen
Amador City
Barton
Bonnefoy
Buckhorn Lodge
Buena Vista
Bunker Hill
Clarsona
Clinton
Drytown
Electra
Enterprise
Fiddletown
Ione
Jackson
Lancha Plana
Martell
New Chicago
Pine Grove
Pioneer
Plymouth
River Pines
Scottsville
Silver Lake
Sunnybrook
Sutter Creek
Sutter Hill
Volcano
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Amador County is a county in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,474. The county seat is Jackson. Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The Heart of the Mother Lode". There is a substantial viticultural industry in the county.

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History

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Amador County was created by the California Legislature on May 11, 1854, from parts of Calaveras and El Dorado counties. It was organized on July 3, 1854.[1] In 1864, part of the county's territory was given to Alpine County.

The county is named for José María Amador, a soldier, rancher, and miner, born in San Francisco in 1794, the son of Sergeant Pedro Amador (a Spanish soldier who settled in California in 1771) and younger brother to Sinforosa Amador.

In 1848, Jose Maria Amador, with several Native Americans, established a successful gold mining camp near the present town of Amador City. In Spanish, the word amador means "one who loves". Some of the Mother Lode's most successful gold mines were located in Amador County, including the Kennedy, Argonaut, and Keystone.

There are numerous gold mines in Amador County including the Argonaut Mine, the Kennedy Mine, the Central Eureka, and the Lincoln. The Kennedy Mine in Jackson was the deepest gold mine of its time. The federal government closed all of the Mother Lode's mines in 1942 because they were considered non-essential to the war effort.

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Date Event Source
1854 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1854 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1860 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1870 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1873 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1860 10,930
1870 9,582
1880 11,384
1890 10,320
1900 11,116
1910 9,086
1920 7,793
1930 8,494
1940 8,973
1950 9,151
1960 9,990
1970 11,821
1980 19,314
1990 30,039
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Amador County, California, United States

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