| China Gulch | |
|---|---|
| Former settlement | |
  China Gulch Location in California | |
| Coordinates: 39°49′00″N121°10′35″W / 39.81667°N 121.17639°W Coordinates: 39°49′00″N121°10′35″W / 39.81667°N 121.17639°W | |
| Country |  |
| State |  |
| County | Plumas County |
| Elevation [1] | 5,610 ft (1,710 m) |
China Gulch is a former settlement in Plumas County, California. [1] It lay at an elevation of 5610 feet (1710 m). [1] China Gulch is located 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Bucks Lake. [2] It still appeared on maps as of 1897. [2]
Plumas County is a county in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,007. The county seat is Quincy, and the only incorporated city is Portola. The largest community in the county is East Quincy. The county was named for the Spanish Río de las Plumas, which flows through the county.
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.6 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions, with 18.7 million and 9.7 million residents respectively. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second most populous, after New York City. California also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The City and County of San Francisco is both the country's second-most densely populated major city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.
Bucks Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. Bucks Lake is located on the south shore of the lake of the same name, 13 miles (20.9 km) west-southwest of Quincy. The population was 10 at the 2010 census, down from 17 at the 2000 census.
A smelter for the Engels Copper Mine was located at China Gulch.
The Engels Copper Mine was located in Plumas County, California at the north end of the Plumas Copper Belt. The Engels mine was named after Henry A. Engels, who settled the area in the 1880s and began to mine copper. In 1901 the Engels Copper Mining Company was founded. In 1911 the company built a smelter at China Gulch but was soon prohibited by the U.S. Forest Service which had stewardship over the land that was within the Plumas National Forest. Copper ore was hauled over road to Keddie where the ore was loaded into Western Pacific Railroad freight cars and transported to the ASARCO smelter at Garfield, Utah. Road transport was replaced by rail in 1917 when the Indian Valley Railroad opened.
