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New Calaveras County Homes for Sale and Calaveras County Real Estate
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Calaveras County New Home Information
Calaveras County spans a total area of 1,037 square miles - 1,020 square miles is land and only 17 square miles of it is water. The county's new home residents can appreciate a number of caverns located in Calaveras County. Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a preserve of Giant Sequoia trees, is located in the county several miles east of the town of Arnold on state highway 4. The uncommon gold telluride mineral cleveite is named for the county. Part of the Stanislaus National Forest is a national protected area.
The county extends from the "plains" at the edge of the San Joaquin Valley easterly through the rolling foothills and historic Mother Lode communities, up into the great pine forest, and to the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is bounded on the north by the Mokelumne River and Amador County and on the south by the Stanislaus River and Tuolumne County. Calaveras County's eastern border is the high sierra country and Alpine County. Both, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties border on the west.
Mark Twain set his story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", in the county. Each year, the county hosts its County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, featuring a frog jumping contest, to celebrate the association with Twain's story. The celebrated California red-legged frog, feared absent from the county by 1969, was rediscovered in 2003.
The economy of Calaveras County is primarily dependent upon new home residents and their recreation, ranching, service employment (governmental, schools), and some mineral extraction and timber harvesting. Approximately 45,000 people live in the county and there are nearly 6,500 children, kindergarten through grade 12, in four school districts.
Higher education includes nearby community and state colleges: Columbia College, Modesto Junior College, San Joaquin Delta College, Cal State Universities at Sacramento and Stanislaus, and UC Davis.
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