when authorities ordered the entire town evacuated. Flames had gotten within a mile of central Mariposa, the county seat whose history dates to the mid-19th century California Gold Rush.

A fast-moving wildfire forced residents of the historic Gold Rush town of Mariposa to flee Thursday evening. The French Fire started around 6:30 p.m. Thursday north of town. By the small hours of ...

While the French fire destroyed four homes, firefighters were able to save the unique gold rush town of Mariposa. Skyview30 video shows how close the flames came to Mariposa County High School.

Life for residents and merchants in and around the Sierra foothills community of Mariposa began returning ... visitors back to the popular Gold Country town and allowing more evacuees to come ...

The blistering, relentlessly hot start to California’s summer took another alarming turn Friday, as a wildfire threatened to burn the Sierra Nevada town of Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush ...

The historic Gold Rush town of Mariposa and an entry point for Yosemite National Park are threatened by the French Fire. A firefighter extinguishes hotspots along a hillside during the French ...

This string of former mining towns in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada burst onto the scene in 1848 during the fabled gold rush. Then, the first glinting rock was discovered in the ...