Last Chance, California

Last Chance
Unincorporated community
Last Chance Location in California
Coordinates: 39°06′41″N 120°37′29″W / 39.11139°N 120.62472°W / 39.11139; -120.62472Coordinates: 39°06′41″N 120°37′29″W / 39.11139°N 120.62472°W / 39.11139; -120.62472
Country	United States
State	California
County	Placer County
Elevation^[1]	4,564 ft (1,391 m)

Last Chance (formerly, Clifton and Caroline Diggings)^[2] is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California.^[1] Last Chance is located 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northeast of Michigan Bluff.^[2] It lies at an elevation of 4564 feet (1391 m).^[1]

Last Chance was named by miners.^[3] The Last Chance post office operated from 1865 to 1869 and from 1909 to 1919.^[2]

References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Last Chance, California
1 2 3 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 511. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 182.

Municipalities and communities of Placer County, California, United States

County seat: Auburn

Cities and towns	Auburn Colfax Lincoln Loomis Rocklin Roseville

CDPs	Alta Carnelian Bay Dollar Point Dutch Flat Foresthill Granite Bay Kings Beach Kingvale‡ Meadow Vista Newcastle North Auburn Penryn Sheridan Sunnyside-Tahoe City Tahoe Vista Tahoma‡

Unincorporated communities	Alpine Meadows Applegate Baxter Big Bend Blue Canyon Brockway Cape Horn Casa Loma Chambers Lodge Cisco Cisco Grove Clayton Clipper Gap Donner Eder Elders Corner Emigrant Gap Forebay Four Acres Gold Hill Greekstore Heather Glen Hidden Valley Homewood Hughes Mill Idlewild Iowa Hill Kilaga Springs Lake Forest Lander Crossing Last Chance Magra McCulloh Michigan Bluff Midas Monte Vista Nielsburg Ophir Pinecroft Rainbow Rampart Ramsey Crossing Rawhide Secret Town Soda Springs Squaw Valley Sunnyside Tahoe City Tahoe Pines The Cedars Todd Valley Towle Troy Virginiatown Westville Weimar Whitney Yankee Jims Zuver

Ghost towns	Ackerman Andover Arctic Baltimore Bath Blue Bluffs Bullion Cairns Ceres Flat Chicago Park Coon Creek Deadwood Drum East Auburn Flat Ravine Florence Spring Fort Trojan Frytown Fulda Gilsons Station Goggins Gold Run Indiana Hill Knapp Kulkumish Leta Little Rattlesnake Bar Lone Star Lost Camp Mayflower Millertown Mineral Bar Molma Moss Hills Oilville Pine Grove Pitsokut Ralston Red Point Secret Canyon Secret Ravine Smiths Spruce Stanford Stewarts Flat Stonehill Tamarack Union Shed Vantrent Webster Yorkville

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

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