Enterprise, Amador County, California
Unincorporated community in California, United States
38°32′25″N 120°50′50″W / 38.54028°N 120.84722°W / 38.54028; -120.84722
Unincorporated community in California, United States
Enterprise
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Enterprise (the United States)
Show map of the United StatesEnterprise is a former mining camp in Amador County, California. It is located 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Fiddletown, on Big Indian Creek,[2] at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m). Established to mine quartz, at its peak it had a population of around a hundred, but the prospects did not pan out, and there are only a few houses in the area now.[3]
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Enterprise, Amador County, California
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 482. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ Mason, Jesse D. (1881). History of Amador County, California: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Oackland, California: Thompson & West. p. 233. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
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Municipalities and communities of Amador County, California, United States
County seat: Jackson
- Amador City
- Ione
- Jackson
- Plymouth
- Sutter Creek
- Amador Pines
- Buckhorn
- Buena Vista
- Camanche North Shore
- Camanche Village
- Drytown
- Fiddletown
- Kirkwood‡
- Lockwood
- Martell
- Pine Grove
- Pioneer
- Red Corral
- River Pines
- Volcano
communities
‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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