Bronco, California

Bronco
Former settlement
Bronco Location in California
Coordinates: 39°23′11″N 120°01′18″W / 39.38639°N 120.02167°W / 39.38639; -120.02167Coordinates: 39°23′11″N 120°01′18″W / 39.38639°N 120.02167°W / 39.38639; -120.02167
Country	United States
State	California
County	Nevada County
Elevation^[1]	5,348 ft (1,630 m)
Time zone	Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)

Bronco is a former settlement in Nevada County, California, 9.5 mi (15.3 km) from Truckee by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Its elevation is 5,348 ft (1,630 m) above sea level.^[1]

History

The Bronco post office was open during the period of 1872 until 1891.^[2]

In 1933, an alternate spelling, Broncho, was rejected by the United States Board on Geographic Names.^[2]

References

1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bronco, California
1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 455. 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

Ghost towns	Alpha Badger Hill Balaklava Bald Eagle Baltimore Town Bear River Pines Bear Valley Beckmans Flat Birchville Blue Tent Boca Boston Ravine Brass Wire Bar Bridgeport Brighton House Bronco Buena Vista Burckhalter Burks Bar Camp Spaulding Cascade Diggings Cedar Kress Chalk Bluff Champion Cherokee Coyoteville Crystal Springs Democrat Diamond Creek Diggers Bar Dillon Drum Eagle Bird Elida Eureka Farad Fernley Flood Forest Spring French Lake Frenchmans Bar Gelatt Glenbrook Gold Hill Hacketville Hobart Mills Hunt's Hill Iceland Indian Springs Jericho Jones Bar Kentucky Flat La Barr Meadows Lafayette Hill Langs Little York Louisa Lowell Hill Malakoff Maybert Meadow Lake Melburn Hill Missouri Flat Moores Flat Mount Zion Mountain Well Mountain View Negro Flat Ohm Omega Orleans Flat Pittsburg Pleasant Flat Prosser Prosser Creek Providence Randolph House Rays Flat Red Diamond Red Dog Remington Hill Rose's Corral Shands Shelby Flat Shellback Six Mile House Snow Point Snow Tent Spenceville Spiritsville Stockings Flat Sunset View Sweetland Tsekankan Union Hill Ustoma Virginia House Waloupa White Cloud Wickes Wilsonville Wokodot Woolsey Flat Yamako Zinc House

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

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