Chicago Park, California

For the former settlement in Placer County, see Chicago Park, Placer County, California.
Chicago Park
Unincorporated community
Chicago Park

Location of Chicago Park in California

Coordinates: 39°08′43″N 120°58′02″W / 39.14528°N 120.96722°W / 39.14528; -120.96722Coordinates: 39°08′43″N 120°58′02″W / 39.14528°N 120.96722°W / 39.14528; -120.96722[1]
Country  United States
State  California
County Nevada
Named for Chicago
Elevation[1] 2,313 ft (705 m)
Time zone Pacific (UTC-8)
  Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP code 95712
Area code 530
GNIS feature ID 258262

Chicago Park (formerly: Storm's Station)[2] is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, along State Route 174 southeast of Grass Valley, California, and north of Colfax, California.

History

The town was settled by first-generation Italian-Americans who immigrated to the area from Chicago, Illinois.[3] Alternately, it was named by Paul Ullrich and a group of German settlers from Illinois in the 1880s.[4]

In 1915, J.F. Siems' Mountain Bartlett Pears from his Chicago Park orchard won first prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Chicago Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  2. Brower, Maria E. (2006). Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 0-7385-4692-5.
  3. "Nevada County, California Wineries". downtownnevadacounty.com. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  4. Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 76. ISBN 0520213165.
  5. "Grand Prize PPIE 1915 Vintage Pear Crate Label". thelabelman.com. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  6. "Grand Prize Pears". sacramentohistory.org. Retrieved 2008-09-06.

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