page_title: Mariposa County, California
section_title: Communities
hierarchical_section_title: Mariposa County, California / Communities
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the w:Wawona Hotel, a historic hotel located within Yosemite National Park.
context_page_description: Mariposa County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 18,251. The county seat is Mariposa. It is located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north of Fresno, east of Merced, and southeast of Stockton.
  The county's eastern section is the central portion of Yosemite National Park.
  There are no incorporated cities in Mariposa County; however, there are communities recognized as census-designated places for statistical purposes. It also has the distinction of having no permanent traffic lights anywhere in the county.
caption: The historic Wawona Hotel, built in 1876
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