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Jamestown

Jamestown is an unincorporated community in , United States. Formerly a California Gold Rush town, Jamestown was designated a California Historical Landmark on March 16, 1949.
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  • Type: Village with 3,430 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “American Camp”, “Jamestown, CA”, “Jamestown, California”, and “Jimtown”
  • Postal code: 95327

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sonora.

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Jamestown

Latitude
37.9533° or 37° 57′ 12″ north
Longitude
-120.4227° or 120° 25′ 22″ west
Population
3,430
Elevation
1,427 feet (435 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US JMW
Open location code
849XXH3G+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150938811
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5360382
Wiki­data ID
Q2651966
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Jamestown” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Jamestown”
  • Catalan: “Jamestown”
  • Cebuano: “Jamestown”
  • Chechen: “Джеймстаун”
  • Chinese: “Jamestown”
  • Chinese: “詹姆斯敦”
  • Croatian: “Jamestown”
  • Dutch: “Jamestown”
  • French: “Jamestown”
  • German: “Jamestown”
  • Gilaki: “جیمز‌تاؤن”
  • Irish: “Jamestown”
  • Italian: “Jamestown”
  • Japanese: “ジェームズタウン (カリフォルニア州)”
  • Japanese: “ジェームズタウン”
  • Ladin: “Jamestown”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jamestown”
  • Navajo: “Tólchiin Yílį́”
  • Newari: “जेम्सटाउन (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “जेम्सटाउन, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “जेम्सटाउन”
  • Persian: “جیمزتاون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “جیمزتاون”
  • Polish: “Jamestown”
  • Portuguese: “Jamestown”
  • Serbian: “Џејмстаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamestown, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamestown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جیمزتاون، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Jamestown (California)”
  • Spanish: “Jamestown”
  • Swedish: “Jamestown, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Jamestown”
  • Tatar: “Джеймстаун”
  • Turkish: “Jamestown, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Jamestown”
  • Ukrainian: “Джеймстаун”
  • Urdu: “جمستوؤں”
  • Urdu: “جیمز ٹاون، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Volapük: “Jamestown”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jamestown”. Photo: Bobak, CC BY 3.0.