Mariposa County

County seat: MariposaCentral CaliforniaCCS Zone 4

Assessor's Office

Property assessment data, parcel information, and assessor maps.

Recorder's Office

Recorded documents including deeds, maps, easements, and CC&Rs.

GIS / Parcel Viewer

Interactive online map with parcel boundaries, aerial imagery, and data layers.

Small county - limited online GIS tools

County Surveyor

Records of Survey, Corner Records, and survey-related filings.

Public Works — Survey Division (4639 Ben Hur Road, Mariposa, (209) 966-5356). Handles Corner Records, map checking, Records of Survey, land divisions, lot line adjustments, parcel maps, easement acquisition/abandonment, and offers of dedication. No online ROS or Corner Record search index — recorded maps are available at the Assessor-Recorder counter, or by public records request via mariposacounty.nextrequest.com.

California Survey Requirements & Records

The statewide rules that govern surveys, maps, and monuments in Mariposa County — plus our recorded-maps archive.

Recorded Map Examples in Mariposa County

Every map type Mariposa County records, with a real example on file where one has been archived.

Subdivision & Tentative Parcel Map Requirements

Municipal code citations, submittal checklists, and fees for the county and its largest city.

Mariposa County

Subdivision Ordinance

Tentative parcel maps: Mariposa County Code Title 16 - Subdivisions. Minor land divisions (4 lots + remainder or less) are processed as Tentative Parcel Maps; major subdivisions (5+ lots) use Chapter 16.20 (Major Subdivision Requirements). Section 16.12.100 requires all land divisions (minor and major) to be field-marked with signage prior to review. Full chapter text confirmed via Mariposa County DocumentCenter posting of "16-20 MAJOR SUBDIVISIONS REQUIREMENTS" (https://mariposacounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/3296/16-20-MAJOR-SUBDIVISIONS-REQUIREMENTS).

Submittal checklist →

The live Municode-hosted book (mariposa.municipalcodeonline.com) lists ordinances but its Title 16 text did not render through automated fetch; section numbers (16.12.100, Chapter 16.20) are corroborated instead through two County-published PDFs: the Land Division Info Sheet package and the standalone Chapter 16.20 document on the County's own DocumentCenter. The Land Division Info Sheet (2026 rev., 9 pages) doubles as the de facto tentative parcel map / land division submittal checklist — verified by downloading and running pdftotext on the PDF directly since WebFetch could not parse the binary stream.

Tentative map review fee: $2,022 deposit (minor subdivision/tentative parcel map inside Mariposa Town Planning Area) or $2,579 (outside TPA), plus a separate Public Works review deposit of $538 (2025); major subdivisions (tract map, 5+ lots) are $3,792 plus $894 Public Works. All are time-and-materials deposits billed at $130/hr staff rate, not flat fees. source · verified 2026-07

Verified by downloading the County's official 2025 Planning Fee Schedule PDF and extracting text with pdftotext (WebFetch could not parse the compressed PDF stream directly). This is the Planning Department's own current fee-schedule document, so it is authoritative, but I could only locate this single official source stating the dollar figures — the Land Division Info Sheet (https://mariposacounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/97795/241028-Land-Div-Info-Sheet-Package) corroborates that fees are deposit-based and billed at $130/hr but does not restate the dollar amounts, so treat the specific figures as single-sourced.

Recording fee: $9.00 first page + $2.00 each additional page for Subdivision, Parcel, Survey, and Assessment maps (distinct from the general document rate of $14 first page / $3 additional page). source · verified 2026-07

Primary source is the County Recorder's own Fee Schedule page, which explicitly separates 'Maps: Subdivision, Parcel, Survey, and Assessment' ($9/$2) from general documents ($14/$3). A second County page (List-of-Services-and-Costs) and deeds.com's summary of the County schedule both corroborate the general $14/$3 document rate, but neither independently restates the map-specific $9/$2 rate, so the map rate itself is single-sourced to the Recorder's official fee page.

Mariposa

Mariposa County has zero incorporated cities — Mariposa (the county seat) is an unincorporated CDP served entirely by Mariposa County government; there is no separate municipal code, planning department, or fee schedule for the town itself. A separate 'Mariposa Town Planning Area (TPA)' overlay exists within the County's subdivision ordinance with its own land-division standards, but it is administered by the County Planning Department, not a city government.

Planning department

Surveyor's Toolbox

Research tools that pair with county records — look up licensees, run coordinate work, and pull federal land records.

Planning Department

Zoning maps, general plan, and land use information.