Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County · San Andreas is the seat · Sacramento is the capital of California · Angels Camp is a city · Murphys is a town · Arnold is a town · Amador is a different county
San Andreas is the seat. Sacramento is the capital. Angels Camp is a city, not the hall.
Calaveras County, California, was created 18 February 1850 as one of the original twenty-seven counties, and named for the Calaveras River — Spanish for skulls, not a carnival. San Andreas is the county seat. Sacramento is the capital of California. San Andreas is not the capital. San Andreas is not an incorporated city. Angels Camp is not the capital. Do not read this page as Autauga-with-a-frog. Do not read this page as Alpine-with-a-jail-this-time. Prattville is Autauga. Markleeville is Alpine. Neither is this oval.
Angels Camp is the only incorporated city — not the hall. Murphys, Arnold, Valley Springs, Copperopolis, Mokelumne Hill, West Point, Avery, and Rancho Calaveras are communities — remainder, not a second seat. The jumping frog of Calaveras County is a festival in Angels Camp — not the county government. Amador is northwest — Jackson is that hall. Alpine is east — Markleeville is that hall, and that Sheriff does not hold a county jail. Tuolumne is south — Sonora is that hall.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Gold Country remainder patrol and the Adult Detention Facility this badge still holds on Jeff Tuttle Drive — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Calaveras County.
Five Supervisors at 891 Mountain Ranch. They do not sit as the State Assembly.
Calaveras is a general law county. A five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district, sits at the County Government Center, 891 Mountain Ranch Road, Building A Board Chambers, San Andreas, CA 95249 — (209) 754-6370. They fund roads, the Government Center courthouse campus, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Angels Camp City Council is a city body. The California Legislature sits in Sacramento. None of those is this Board.
Calaveras Superior Court lists at 400 Government Center Drive, San Andreas. Do not invent one frog statue as the whole map. Confirm live at calaverasgov.us and calaveras.courts.ca.gov.
The Sheriff is a county officer (California Constitution Article XI; Government Code § 24000). This Sheriff is not on the 2026 gubernatorial table. Elections Code § 1300 (AB 759, 2022) moved sheriff and district attorney to the presidential primary. A sheriff elected in 2022 serves a six-year term; the next regular is the 2028 presidential primary. Calaveras has no charter that could have locked a gubernatorial-year date before 1 January 2021. Last regular 7 June 2022. Take office at noon on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding election (Gov. Code § 24200). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Sacramento.
The Stanislaus is a river. Copperopolis is a town. Amador is a different county.
State Route 49, State Route 4, and State Route 12 meet on this map. The Calaveras River, New Melones Lake, and New Hogan Lake are water, not a Tuolumne badge. Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a park — not this government. The Sierra timber is east toward Alpine. The San Joaquin valley is west. San Joaquin and Stanislaus sit downslope. Staff who paste a jumping-frog photograph onto Mountain Ranch Road, or treat San Andreas as the capital, or file Angels Camp as this county government, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-a-frog, are on the wrong county.
How a Gold Country public finds Mountain Ranch, Government Center, and Jeff Tuttle
Board of Supervisors: 891 Mountain Ranch Road, Building A, San Andreas. Calaveras Superior Court: 400 Government Center Drive. Sheriff Administration and Adult Detention Facility: 1045 Jeff Tuttle Drive, San Andreas, CA 95249 — Sheriff (209) 754-6500, jail (209) 754-6499. Confirm live at sheriff.calaverasgov.us and calaverasgov.us. A student who only knows a frog postcard, or a Sacramento photograph as this county, or treats Angels Camp City Hall as the jail, has not found this campus.
Jeff Tuttle still jails. Angels Camp PD does not.
Crime in unincorporated Calaveras — Valley Springs, Murphys, Arnold, Copperopolis, Mokelumne Hill, West Point, Rancho Calaveras, and the remainder — is this Sheriff. Crime in Angels Camp is often Angels Camp Police. This Sheriff is not that municipal department. The Adult Detention Facility at 1045 Jeff Tuttle Drive is this Sheriff’s house. Official doors did not show a separate county Department of Corrections taking this house — do not invent a jailer split.
CDCR is not this Sheriff. CHP is a state badge. CAL FIRE is a state fire badge. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Angels Camp City Hall, to Jackson (Amador), or to Sonora (Tuolumne). Alpine County houses with this county and with El Dorado — that is a contract, not a second Calaveras.
Care without inventing the jumping frog as this county
A peace order served in Valley Springs. A court-ordered transport from Jeff Tuttle Drive to Government Center. Search and rescue toward Arnold and the Highway 4 snow. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Mark Twain as this oval. Do not invent Sacramento as this hall.
What Calaveras actually watches
Court calendar on Government Center. A wreck on Highway 49. Snow on Highway 4. High water at New Melones. Fire in the Mother Lode timber. Coordination with Angels Camp PD, CHP, and CAL FIRE without becoming those departments. Coordination with Amador’s Sheriff or Tuolumne’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. Gold Country is geography. The jumping frog is a festival. Neither is Angels Camp PD as this oval.
San Andreas civic snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: California · County: Calaveras · Seat: San Andreas · Capital of California: Sacramento
- Map: San Andreas · Angels Camp · Murphys · Arnold · Valley Springs · Copperopolis · Highway 49 · Highway 4 · New Melones
- Not Angels Camp as the county government · Not the capital · Not Angels Camp PD as this oval · Not Autauga-with-a-frog
- Board: five Supervisors at 891 Mountain Ranch Road, Building A
- Sheriff clock: not 2026 · last regular 2022 · next regular 2028 presidential primary · six-year bridge from AB 759
- Jail: Adult Detention Facility, 1045 Jeff Tuttle Drive, San Andreas — this Sheriff still holds it
Orientation adapted from the California Constitution Article XI, Elections Code § 1300, Government Code §§ 24000, 24200, 25304, and 26600, Calaveras County official pages (calaverasgov.us, sheriff.calaverasgov.us, bos.calaverasgov.us), Calaveras Superior Court locations, and the Secretary of State for education. The Sheriff of record is whatever those sources say today. Confirm HQ versus court versus jail, and Angels Camp PD versus this badge, on official pages before you travel.
What San Andreas is not, as this county
- Not the capital of California. Sacramento is.
- Not Angels Camp as the county government. Not Los Angeles as this hall.
- Not Murphys / Arnold / Valley Springs / Copperopolis as the county government.
- Not Angels Camp Police as this oval. Not CHP. Not CAL FIRE as this oval.
- Not Amador’s jail in Jackson. Not Tuolumne’s house in Sonora.
- Not Autauga-with-a-frog. Not Alpine-without-a-jail rewritten as this map.
- Not the Governor (that desk is 2026 in Sacramento).
- Not a campaign flyer.