Blue Tent, California

Blue Tent
Former settlement
Blue Tent Location in California
Coordinates: 39°18′37″N 120°58′21″W / 39.31028°N 120.97250°W / 39.31028; -120.97250Coordinates: 39°18′37″N 120°58′21″W / 39.31028°N 120.97250°W / 39.31028; -120.97250
Country	United States
State	California
County	Nevada County
Elevation^[1]	3,133 ft (955 m)

Blue Tent is a former settlement in Nevada County, California. It was situated 6 mi (9.7 km) southwest of the town of North Bloomfield, California on the north side of the Washington Ridge, by the South Yuba River. Its elevation was 3,133 ft (955 m) above sea level.^[2]^[3]

History

First a California Gold Rush camp, and then a mining town,^[4] it appeared on an 1873 map that identified other features within a couple of miles such as Sailor Flat Cañon, Mount Vernon House, and Gopher Hill. A post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1889.^[5]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blue Tent, California
↑ "NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA". calsign.com. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
↑ Lindgren, Waldemar (1896). The gold-quartz veins of Nevada City and Grass Valley Districts, California. Government printing office. pp. 33, 106, 108, 110.
↑ Brower, Maria E. (2006). Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 8. ISBN 0-7385-4692-5.
↑ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 452. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

Municipalities and communities of Nevada County, California, United States

County seat: Nevada City

Cities and towns	Grass Valley Nevada City Truckee

CDPs	Alta Sierra Floriston Graniteville Kingvale‡ Lake of the Pines Lake Wildwood North San Juan Penn Valley Rough and Ready Soda Springs Washington

Unincorporated communities	Alta Hill Bitney Corner Carpenter Valley Casey Corner Cedar Ridge Chicago Park Coleman Crystal Lake Dew Drop French Corral Forest Knolls Gaston Gateway Gold Flat Higgins Corner Hills Flat Hinton Hirschdale Junction House Kres Lake City Marsh Mill Mooney Flat Mystic Newtown Norden North Bloomfield North Columbia Peardale Pinecrest Polaris Relief Scotts Flat Sebastopol Spring Hill The Oaks Town Talk Union Mills Willow Valley Wolf You Bet Yuba Pass

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Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

California Gold rush

Geology	Gold in California

People	List of people associated with the California Gold Rush Women in the California Gold Rush

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