* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Up the Long Ladder ", the DY-500 class S. S. Mariposa was said to have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 27, 2123.

" The Dragon ", crystalline gold from the Colorado Quartz Mine, Mariposa County.

* " Mariposa Traicionera ", a song on the album Revolución de Amor by Maná

* " Mariposa ", a 1981 track by the band Freeez from their album Southern Freeez

* Mariposa, Spanish for " butterfly ", also used in Spanish profanity as a slur against gay men

In Stephen Leacock's 1912 book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Orillia was used as the basis for the fictional town known as " Mariposa ", although Leacock stated that the fictional town could really be any town.

* " The Bachelor and Three Graces ", a set of four sequoia trees growing with intertwined roots growing in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park.

Ian & Sylvia sang their signature song, " Four Strong Winds ", at the 50th anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival on July 11, 2010, in Orillia, Ontario.

*" Mariposa Grove ", National Geographic Society

The follow-up, " Circo Beat ", had impossibly high expectations and though it had several hit songs, including " Mariposa Tecknicolor " and " Tema de Piluso ," as well as a companion album, Circo Beat Brazil, which featured Brazilian remixes of its hits, it only sold around 350, 000 copies.

In Cuba it is the National Flower, known as " Mariposa blanca " literally " White Butterfly Flower ", due to its similarity with a flying white butterfly.

Ian and Sylvia sang the song together at the 50th anniversary of the Mariposa Folk Festival on July 11, 2010, in Orillia, Ontario.

The next effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was, again, in the United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias ( later becoming the Yosemite National Park ) to the state of California:

President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864 granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California " for public use, resort and recreation ," the two tracts " shall be inalienable for all time ".

Madera County was formed in 1893, from the southern part of Mariposa County during a special election held on May 16, 1893.

Many aspects of the area's mining history are depicted in exhibits at two local museums: the Mariposa History Museum, located in the town of Mariposa ; and the California Mining and Mineral Museum, located at the Mariposa Fairgrounds ( 2 miles east of Mariposa on Highway 49 ).

Calochortus venustus | Butterfly Mariposa Lily on Fremont Peak, above Bear Valley.

* Mariposa – A hamlet east of Lincklaen Center, near the east town line on County Road 13.

* Mariposa ( fictional town ), a fictional town created by Stephen Leacock and modelled on Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

He was later found dead on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch District in San Francisco, his left shoe and sock missing.

In 1920 they settled in Altadena, California, where Grey bought a prominent mansion on East Mariposa Street, known locally as " Millionaire's Row ".

* Building Materials of the California Gold Country: A Selective Photographic Tour from Mariposa in Mariposa County to Auburn in Placer County, on Stone Quarries and Beyond.

Green and Andrew McNally were next door neighbors on Mariposa Street just west of Lake Ave.

The California Mother Lode is a zone from wide and long, extending from Georgetown in El Dorado County on the north, through Amador, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties, south to Mormon Bar in Mariposa County.

The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti.

The Ambassador Hotel began operation formally on January 1, 1921, and was located at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, between Catalina Street and Mariposa Avenue, in the center of the Los Angeles Mid-Wilshire district.

Though a detour opened in August, 2006, those anticipating travel between Mariposa and El Portal ( Yosemite National Park ) on SR140 are still advised to contact the National Park Service, California Highway Patrol, Caltrans, or the Mariposa County Sheriff to find out if the road is open.

* Mariposa, a 1998 album by Jennifer Peña

It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily ( genus Calochortus ) and the Matilija poppy ( Romneya coulteri ) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

The county took its name from Mariposa Creek, which was so named by Spanish explorers in 1806, when they discovered a great cluster of butterflies (" mariposas " in Spanish and Portuguese ) in the foothills of the Sierras.

* Mariposa County, California – southeast by a corner

The county lies at the southern end of the Mother Lode, and Europeans were attracted to Mariposa by gold.

In the state legislature Mariposa is located in the 14th Senate District, represented by Republican Tom Berryhill, and in the 25th Assembly District, represented by Republican Kristin Olsen.

Federally, Mariposa is located in California's 19th congressional district, which is represented by Republican Jeff Denham.

* USS Mariposa ( X-125 ), Liberty ship carrying gasoline ; sunk December 30, 1944 off Occidental Mindoro by Allied torpedoes after devastating Japanese air attack

* Mariposa, fictional ship from the novel Martin Eden by Jack London

* Mariposa, fictional starship / admirals gig of Pern from novel Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

* Mariposa, a 2009 novel by science fiction author Greg Bear

* Mariposa azul, an alternate title for The Blue Butterfly, a 2004 film by Léa Pool, with William Hurt and Pascale Bussière

In 1864 Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove were ceded by the federal government to California until Yosemite National Park was proclaimed in 1890.

The formation was named " El Capitan " by the Mariposa Battalion when it explored the valley in 1851.

In the first weeks of his governorship, McDougall was pressured by miners and residents in Mariposa County to intervene in a growing conflict later known as the Mariposa War, with the local Miwok, Chowchilla, and Yokut tribes opposing encroachment on their land.

The Mariposa Grove was first visited by non-natives in 1857 when Galen Clark and Milton Mann found it.

* Calochortus catalinae Santa Catalina Mariposa lily-threatened by development