Copper City, Glenn County, California

39°43′23″N 122°48′34″W

Copper City
Unincorporated community
"Colusa Copper" The Daily California Express, 1863
"Colusa Copper" The Daily California Express, 1863
Copper City is located in California
Copper City
Copper City
Location in California
Copper City is located in the United States
Copper City
Copper City
Copper City (the United States)
Coordinates: 39°43′23″N 122°48′34″W
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyGlenn County
Elevation
[1]
5,837 ft (1,779 m)

Copper City is an archaic place name in Glenn County, California[1] located in the Mendocino National Forest. It lies at an elevation of 5837 feet (1779 m).[1] Copper ore was discovered along mountain creeks in this area during the 1860s, creating an influx of miners with "Copper Fever" to this remote site in the eastern Coastal Mountain Range. The mining community dissipated nearly as quickly as it sprung up, and nothing remains of it today other than the place name.[2] Per an index made 1888, the California State Mineral Cabinet of the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery holds native copper and cuprite from Copper Hill in Colusa County, as well as several other copper-family minerals said to come from Colusa County.[3] Copper City still appeared on maps of Glenn County as of 1939.[4]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Copper City, Glenn County, California
  2. Crosley Graham, Martha A. "Glenn County, California Resources". CAGenWeb. Archived from the original on November 8, 2015.
  3. Cabinet, California State Mineral (1888). Catalogue of Minerals and Ores in the State Mineral Cabinet at the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, Cal. Superintendent State Printing.
  4. "Metsker's map of Glenn County, California". archives.csuchico.edu. Retrieved October 24, 2023.


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