Madera County
Madera County is in California. The western half of the county is in the San Joaquin Valley, the eastern half extends across the Gold Country into the Sierra Nevada mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Top destinations include Madera and Chowchilla.
Madera
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Madera is a city in, and the county seat of, Madera County, located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Founded in 1876 as a timber settlement at the terminus of a major log flume, the city grew around the lumber trade before transitioning to an agriculture-based economy during the 20th century.
Chowchilla
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Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census. Chowchilla is located 16 miles northwest of Madera, at an elevation of 240 feet.
Oakhurst
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Oakhurst is a settlement of 2,800 people in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. It is 14 mi south of the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
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Coarsegold
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Coarsegold, California, is a census-designated place in Madera County, situated in the central part of the state. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 4,144.
Madera County
- Type: Hamlet with 156,000 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Lake Madera Country Estates”, “Madera”, “Madera County, CA”, and “Madera County, California”
- Neighbors: Fresno County, Mariposa County, Merced County, Mono County, and Tuolumne County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
37.0432° or 37° 2′ 36″ northLongitude of center
-119.9915° or 119° 59′ 29″ westPopulation
156,000Elevation
1,526 feet (465 metres)OpenStreetMap ID
node 150972107OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Madera County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Madera County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ماديرا”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه ماديرا، كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Մադերա շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Madera”
- Asturian: “Madera (condáu)”
- Azerbaijani: “Madera qraflığı”
- Basque: “Madera konderria”
- Bavarian: “Madera County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Madera County”
- Bishnupriya: “মাডেরা কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “মাডেরা কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Мадейра”
- Bulgarian: “Мадера”
- Catalan: “comtat de Madera”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Madera”
- Cebuano: “Madera County”
- Chechen: “Мадера”
- Chinese: “Madera Kūn”
- Chinese: “馬德拉縣”
- Chinese: “马德拉县”
- Czech: “Madera County”
- Danish: “Madera County”
- Dutch: “Madera County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Madera”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Madera”
- Estonian: “Madera maakond”
- Finnish: “Maderan piirikunta”
- French: “Comte de Madera”
- French: “comté de Madera”
- French: “Comté de Madera”
- Georgian: “მადერის ოლქი”
- German: “Madera County”
- Gilaki: “مادرا شأرستان”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מדרה”
- Hungarian: “Madera megye”
- Icelandic: “Madera County”
- Icelandic: “Madera-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Madera, California”
- Irish: “Contae Madera”
- Italian: “contea di Madera”
- Italian: “Contea di Madera”
- Italian: “Madera County”
- Japanese: “マデラ郡”
- Korean: “마데라군”
- Latin: “Madera Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Madera County”
- Lithuanian: “Maderos apygarda”
- Low German: “Madera County”
- Malayalam: “മഡേര കൗണ്ടി”
- Marathi: “मडेरा काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “مادرا شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “مادرا شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Madera Kūn”
- Navajo: “Tsineheeshjíʼí Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
- Northern Frisian: “Madera County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madera County”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madera County”
- Norwegian: “Madera County”
- Pampanga: “Madera County, California”
- Pampanga: “Madera County”
- Persian: “شهرستان مادرا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان مادرا”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Madera”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Madera”
- Russian: “Мадера”
- Sardinian: “contea de Madera”
- Serbian: “Округ Мадера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madera County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madera County”
- Slovenian: “Madera County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Madera”
- Spanish: “Condado de Madera”
- Spanish: “Madera County California”
- Spanish: “Madera County”
- Swedish: “Madera County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Madera, California”
- Tagalog: “Madera County”
- Tatar: “Мадера (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Мадера”
- Tumbuka: “Madera County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Madera County”
- Turkish: “Madera County, CA”
- Turkish: “Madera County, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Madera County, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Madera County”
- Turkish: “Madera ilçesi, CA”
- Turkish: “Madera ilçesi, Calif.”
- Turkish: “Madera ilçesi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Madera ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Мадера”
- Urdu: “مادیرا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Madera”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Madera, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Madera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Madera, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Madera”
- Welsh: “Madera County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Madera County”
- Western Panjabi: “ماڈیرا کاؤنٹی”
- Yue Chinese: “馬德拉縣”
- “Madera”
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