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GOLD QUARTZ MINES From the 1871-1873 Pacific Dirctory
More Mariposa Place Names (see key below) Adelaide and Anderson Mine * Agua Fria/Frio*# Akoz Mine Altons Bar* Anderson Valley# Argo Mine Arkansas Flat*#
Mining Camp 1/2 mile above Carson Ashworth Ranch+ Australia Gulch+
(Mormon Bar) Ave Maria* Badger Mine* Bagby* (originally Reedleys Ferry- then became Benton Mills)
Baldwin*
Bandarita Mine*
Bandareta*
old name for Coulterville
Banderate (Little Flay)#
Barret (D)
locality, 6.5 miles south-southwest of Penon Blanco Peak on the west side of Lake McClure. Named on Penon
Blanco Peak (1962) 7. 5' quadrangle. Merced Flls (1944) 15' quadrangle shos the place situated along
Yosemite Valley Railroad. In 1926 water of Lake McClure covered the site of a community called Barrett.
(Sargent, Shirely, 1976, p.27).
Barret's Ferry#
Barrett City*
Bathtub Spring (D)
(spring- 3.5 miles east of Santa Cruz Mountain- Named on Indian Gulch (1962) 7.5' guadrangle)
Baxter (D)
(5 Miles south-west of Coulterville. P O established in 1890 and discontinued in 1907)
Bear Creek*
Bear Valley *
Ben Hur
(The Quick Ranch)
Bellyache Canyon (D)
(canyon, drained by a stream that flows 1 mile to Cavallada Creek 4,25 miles north-northeast of
the settlement of Catheys Valley
Named on Catheys Valley (1962) 7.5' quadrangle. On Indian Gulch (1920) 15' quadrangle,
the name applies to a canyon siuated
1 to 2 miles farther southeast. United Stated Board of Geographic Names (1964a. p.8)
rejected the names "Billy Ache Canyon" and "William Aches Canyon" for the feature,
but noted that the name "Bellache: reportedly is derived from Billy Aike, or Ache,
who was an early resident of the neighborhood)
Benton Mills# (later known as Bagby)
Big Grizzly Flat#
Big Springs+
Billy Hall's Mt#
Black Bart Mine*#
Blue Moon Mine (TOPO)
Bob McKee Mine (TOPO)
Bond's Flat#
Bondsville
Bone Yard#
ealry mining camp 3 miles N of Coulterville on Priest Rd.
Bondurant*
Bondville*
Bonell Gulch#
Bootjack
Mining Camp east of Mormon Bar
Breakneck#
Bridgeport*
Broadhead#
Buckeye#
Mining Camp and trading post to the west of Mormon Bar
Buckeye District*
Buckhalter#
Buena Vista Mine*
Buffallo Gulch*
Bull Creek+
Bullion Knob*
Bunker Hill#
Bunker Hill Mine*
Burns:Camp*, Creek*, Diggings*, Ranch*
Buzzard Roost mine (TOPO)
Cape Horn#
Carew's Flat#
Caribou#
Carson Creek*#
Carsons or Carson*
Catheys Valley*
Cat Town*#
Cauty's Flat#
Chamisal *
Champion Mine*
Cherokee Mine*
Chicken Gulch#
Chile Gulch#
Chispa Gulch#
Chuchilla Diggings*
Clark's Station#
Clayton Place#
Clearinghouse*
Colorado*# aka Colorow*
Corbet Creek*#
Cornish Town#
Cotton Creek; Cottonville
Coulterville
Cow and Calf Ranch#
Cranberry Mine#
Crown Lead Dam#
Cunningham Rancho
Dan Sullivan Gulch (D)
(canyon, 1.25 miles long, opens into lowlands 8.5 miles southwest of Penon Blanco Peak
near Hawyard
Dark Hole# (D)
locality, 7 miles north of Yosemite village. Named on Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (1956)
It is believed that the place was a state stop (Browning, 1988 p.31)
Date Flat (D)
(area, 3 mis northeast of Buckhorn Peak. Namend on Buckhorn Peak (1947) 7.5' quadrangle
Daugherty's Flat#
Davis Gulch#
Deer Flat#
Dietz Flat#
Diltz Mine
Dogtown*#
Drunken Gulch*#
Dublin House#
Dutch Creek*
Dutch Ranche*
Eagle's Creek#
Early Mine*
Elkhorn#
El Oso(The Bear)#
Exchequer*
49'ers Gap#
Farmers Hope*
Feliciana Creek
Fly-away*#
Ft. Monroe#
Ft. Treluner#
Fremont Estate
Fremont Spring#
French Camp*#
Frenchmans Bar*
French Mine*#
Geary Mine*
Gentry Gulch*
Goat Ranch#
Godeys Gulch
Goff Station
Gold Bug Mine*
Gold Hill*
Good's Gulch#
Granite King Mine (Dick Estel)
Granite Springs District*
Grassy Flat#
Greaser Gulch* (D)
canyon, drained by a stream that flows 4.5 miles to Burns Creek. 1.25 miles east of Courthouse Rock
Named on Haystack Mountain (1962) and Indian Gulch (1962) 5.7' quadrangles
Greeley Hill District*#
Greeley's Mill+
Green Gulch*#
Guadalupe#
Guadalupe Hardisons Camp
Half Way House#
Halls Gulch#
Happy Jack's#
Hart and Johnson's+
Harveys Bar*
Hasloe Mine*
Haydensville*
Haywards' Flat (Mariposa Gazette article)
Hazel Green#
Herbeck Flat
Hells Hollow*#
Hempstead*
Hennesseys Ranch#
Henry Critter's Flat#
High State Bar*
Highway 140-Downtown ca 1940
Hites Cove*#
Hobron Saw Mill#
Hornitos*
Horeshoe Bend*#
Hunter Valley*
Indian Flat
Indian Gulch*#
Jenkins Flat#
Jenny Lind Mine
Jerseydale*
Jim Malone's+
Jim Allen Flat
Johnson Flat*
Johnsonville*
Jones Flat*
Juniper Mine#
Keen's Ranch+
Kingsley*
King Solomon Mine*
Kinsley*
Lion's Gulch#
Little Mill#
Logtown*
Long Canyon*
Louisa Mine*
Magoon's Ranch+
Malay Ranch#
Malvina Mines*
Mammoth Bar*
Manita (Little Mine)#
Marble Springs*
Mariposa Creek, City
Mariposa Grant*
Mariposita*
Mary Harrison Group*
Matsells Creek*
Maxwell Creek*
May Rock#
McCabe's Flat#
McFarlin Mine#
Merced River Diggings
Merrill's Mill(by Dick Estel)
Mexican Mine*#
Missouri Flat#
Missouri Gulch
Mockingbird Mine
Mono#
Mono Camp*
Mormon Bar
Morning Star#
Morse (D)
(locality, 3.25 miles west-northwest of Mariposa along Yosemite Valley Railroad. Named on Merced Falls
(1944) 15' quadrangle
Mountain King Mine
Mount Buckingham
Mount Bullion
Mount Gaines*
Mount Gaines Mine*#
Mount Ophir*#
Myler's Bridge+
Ned's Gulch#
Neals Ranch*
New Diggins Ranch*
New Mexican Camp*
New Years Diggins*+
North Fork*
Norwegian:Tent*, Gulch*
Number Nine Mine*#
Oakes and Resse Mine*
Oakland*
Oak Spring House#
Ophir*
Original Mine*
Oro Chino#
Oro Rico Mine*
Ortega Mine*
Oso Mine#
Paddy's Flat#
Payne's Flat#
Parker Mountain#
Pea Ridge+
Peregory's Inn#
Phillip's Flat#
Pine Tree#
Pino Blanco*
Pittsburgh Landing#
Pleasant Valley*
Plum Bar#
Potose Mine*
Poverty Flat*
Princeton*+
Old Chemisaul#
Old Womans Gulch#
Quail Mine*
Quartzburg*
Queens Specimen#
Ranch Gulch*
Rancherio Flat#
Red Banks#
Red Bank Mine*
Red Cloud Mine*
Reed's Flat#
Ridleys Ferry*
Roma Mine*
Ross (?) Mine#
Rum Hollow*
Rutherford Flat#
Ruth Pierce Mine*
Sam Hogan's Ranch+
Santa Cruz Mountain*
Sauerkraut#
Savage Trading Post#
Saxton Creek*
Schroeder Group*
Sexton Creek*
Schroeder Group*
Sheehan's Ranch+
Sheperd's Point#
Sherlock Flat#
Sherlock;Creek*#, Gulch*, Diggings*
Siegal Flat#
Sierra Rica Mine*
Simpsonville*
Skelton's Ranch+
Smiths:Flat*, Ferry*
Snider's Saw Mill#
Snedeger Place#
Snow Creek*
Snyder's+
Solomons Gulch*#
Split Rock#
Split Rock Ferry*
Spread Eagle Mine*
Starr (CG)
(locality, , 5.25 miles north-northwest of Hornitos along Yosemite Valley Railroad.
Named on Merced Falls (1944) 15' quadrangle
Stizel's Garden#
Stockton Creek
Stonehouse (C G)
locality, nearly 2 miles south of the settlement of Catheys Valley. Named on Catheys Valley (1962)
7.5' quadrangle
Stud Horse Flat*#
Summervale (Election Database)
Sweetwater*
Tarantula Flat#
Telegraph Mt#
Termperance Creek*
Texana*
Texas Gulch*
Texas Hill*
The Diamond Drill#
The Old English Trail#
The Sleeping Place#
The Winner Mine#
Toledo Gulch*
Tom Slattery's Toll House#
Trabucco's Garden#
Tulitos*
Turner Mine#
Tyro Mine*
Upper Agua Fria*
USONA
Vallecita(now known as Catheys Valley)
Valley House#
Valley View#
Virginia Mine*
Washington Flat*#
Washington Mine*#
Webb Station
Whiskey Flat*#
6 miles east of the village of Bear Valley along Sherlock Creek (D)
White and Hatch's+
White's Gulch#
White Prophyry Mine*
Whitlock*+
Yaki Gulch+
(Yaqui Gulch)
Yellowstone#
Yo Semite+
Mariposa Gazette
Name
Contest, 1928 #
Mariposa 1872 and 1877
Tax Deliquent Lists (IN PROGRESS)
Mariposa Great
Register-
1872+
California TOPO
Maps Place Names-
(D) Durhams Place Names of
California Gold County-
(CG) California Gazetter