Amador County is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. As of 2010, the population was 38,091. The county seat is Jackson.
Amador County bills itself as “The Heart of the Mother Lode” and lies within the Gold Country. There is a substantial wine-growing industry in the county.
Amador County is located approximately 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Sacramento in a part of California known as the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Moonset behind the palm at historic Preston Castle, built 1894, in the mother lode town of Ione, Calif.