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Mammoth Lakes is a town in Mono ___MASK67___ , California , the ___MASK67___ ' s only incorporated community . It is located 9 miles ( 14 km ) northwest of Mount Morrison , at an elevation of 7 , 880 feet ( 2 , 400 m ) . The ___MASK47___ was 8 , 234 at the 2010 ___MASK19___ , up from 7 , 093 at the 2000 ___MASK19___ . A ___MASK62___ is an administrative center , seat of ___MASK71___ , or capital ___MASK79___ of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . Mono ___MASK67___ ( MOH - noh ) is a ___MASK67___ located in the east central portion of the U . S . state of California . As of the 2010 ___MASK19___ , the population was 14 , 202 . making it the fifth - least populous ___MASK67___ in California . The ___MASK67___ seat is Bridgeport . The ___MASK67___ is located east of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite National Park and Nevada . Yosemite National ___MASK85___ is a national ___MASK85___ spanning portions of Tuolumne , Mariposa and Madera counties in Northern California . The ___MASK85___ , which is managed by the National ___MASK85___ ___MASK61___ , covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range . About 4 million people visit Yosemite each year : most spend the majority of their ___MASK4___ in the seven square miles ( 18 km ) of Yosemite Valley . Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984 , Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs , waterfalls , clear streams , giant ___MASK59___ groves , lakes , mountains , glaciers , and biological diversity . Almost 95 % of the ___MASK85___ is designated wilderness . Yosemite was central to the development of the national ___MASK85___ idea . First , Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development , ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln ' s signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864 . Later , John Muir led a successful movement to establish a larger national ___MASK85___ encompassing not just the valley , but surrounding mountains and forests as well  paving the way for the United States national ___MASK85___ system . A U . S . ___MASK83___ is a constituent political entity of the United States of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each ___MASK83___ holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States ___MASK30___ . Due to the shared sovereignty between each ___MASK83___ and the ___MASK30___ , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the ___MASK83___ in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Nevada ( Spanish for " snowy "; see pronunciations ) is a ___MASK83___ in the Western , ___MASK31___ West , and Southwestern regions of the United States of America . Nevada is the 7th most extensive , the 34th most populous , and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States . Nearly three - quarters of Nevada ' s ___MASK73___ live in Clark County , which contains the Las Vegas  Paradise metropolitan area where three of the ___MASK83___ ' s four largest incorporated cities are located . Nevada ' s ___MASK87___ is Carson ___MASK79___ . Nevada is officially known as the " Silver State " because of the importance of silver to its history and economy . It is also known as the " Battle Born State ", because it achieved statehood during the Civil War ( the words " Battle Born " also appear on the ___MASK83___ flag ); as the " Sage - brush State ", for the native plant of the same name ; and as the " Sage - hen State ". Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest , Idaho to the northeast , California to the west , Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east . A ___MASK19___ is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover ___MASK19___ topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . California is the most populous ___MASK83___ in the United States and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific ___MASK88___ ) coast of the U . S ., California is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international ___MASK25___ with the Mexican ___MASK83___ of Baja California . The ___MASK83___ ___MASK87___ is Sacramento . Los Angeles is California ' s most populous ___MASK79___ , and the country ' s second largest after New York ___MASK79___ . The ___MASK83___ also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County .