Calneva, California
Calneva | |
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  Calneva Location in California  Calneva Calneva (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 40°09′10″N 120°00′32″W / 40.15278°N 120.00889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Lassen County |
| Elevation | 4,009 ft (1,222 m) |
Calneva (
The town was developed in the hope of finding sufficient water to sustain it.[5] However this proved problematic with the water proving too saline for drinking.[6] This, combined with the farm prices crash of the 1920s, failure of mining ventures and the cancellation of an additional rail line led to the town declining until it was no longer viable to operate either a post office or a station there.[6]
During the 1916 New York City polio epidemic a quarantine officer was stationed there to medically examine passengers from New York, New Jersey and Chicago in an attempt to prevent the disease spreading to California.[7]
A post office operated at Calneva from 1911 to 1919, and from 1920 to 1933.[3]
References
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calneva, California
- Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
- ^ ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ Remington, Frank L. (September 8, 1969). "Take a Good Look at the US Map. Towns Have the Craziest Names". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 2. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
- ^ "Land to be developed". The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California). March 23, 1913.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4401-0146-5.
- ^ "State Quarantine Very Thorough". Oroville Daily Register. July 13, 1916.
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