POPULATION: 13,464

INCORPORATION DATE: 1861

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Jennifer Kreitz
• District 2 – Rhonda Duggan
• District 3 – Bob Gardner
• District 4 – John Peters
• District 5 – Lynda Salcido

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

MONO. County seat, Bridgeport. Created April 24, 1861. The county is named after Mono Lake which, in 1852, was named for an Indian tribe that inhabited the Sierra Nevada from north of Mono Lake to Owens Lake. The tribe’s western neighbors, the Yokuts, called them monachie meaning “fly people” because the pupae of a fly was their chief food staple and trading article.