Murphys
Murphys is an old gold-mining town in Calaveras County within the Gold Country region of California. The town has been a tourist destination since the late 1800s due to its proximity to the giant sequoia trees in Calaveras Big Trees State Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,210 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Calaveras County, California
- Also known as: “Murphy”, “Murphy’s”, “Murphy’s Camp”, “Murphy’s Diggins”, “Murphys, CA”, “Murphys, California”, and “Queen of the Sierra”
- Postal code: 95247
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mercer Caverns and Ironstone Vineyards.
Mercer Caverns
Cave
Photo: EugeneZelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mercer Caverns is a show cave located one mile north of Murphys in Calaveras County California. It is named after the gold prospector Walter J. Mercer who discovered the caves around 1885 and filed a claim.
Ironstone Vineyards
Winery
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Ironstone Vineyards is a winery that is noted for the production of several U.S. wine brands, including Obsession Wines, Leaping Horse Vineyards, Christine Andrew, Stone Valley, and Drifting.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest Meadows and Douglas Flat.
Forest Meadows
Locality
Forest Meadows is a census-designated place in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 1,276 at the 2020 census, up from 1,249 at the 2010 census. Forest Meadows is situated 3½ miles northeast of Murphys.
Douglas Flat
Hamlet
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Douglas Flat is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Calaveras County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1965 feet and is located at.
Big Valley
Hamlet
Big Valley is a small unincorporated community in Lassen County, California. As of July, 2007, its population is 1600. It is located 3 miles northeast of Bieber, at an elevation of 4124 feet above sea level.
Murphys
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Calaveras County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.1374° or 38° 8′ 15″ northLongitude
-120.4596° or 120° 27′ 35″ westPopulation
2,210Elevation
2,175 feet (663 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MS5Open location code
84CX4GPR+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 150943821OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Murphys” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مورفيس”
- Basque: “Murphys”
- Catalan: “Murphys”
- Cebuano: “Murphys”
- Chechen: “Мерфис”
- Chinese: “Murphys”
- Chinese: “墨菲斯”
- Croatian: “Murphys”
- Dutch: “Murphys”
- French: “Murphys”
- German: “Murphys”
- Gilaki: “مرفيز”
- Irish: “Murphys”
- Italian: “Murphys”
- Ladin: “Murphys”
- Malagasy: “Murphys, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Murphys”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Murphys”
- Newari: “मर्फीज, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मर्फीज”
- Persian: “مورفیس، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “مورفیس”
- Polish: “Murphys”
- Serbian: “Мерфи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murphys, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murphys”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورفیس، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Murphys”
- Tatar: “Мерфис”
- Turkish: “Murphys”
- Ukrainian: “Мерфіс”
- Volapük: “Murphys”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Murphys”. Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.