Drum, Placer County, California

Drum
Drum
	Former settlement
	Drum Location in California
	Coordinates: 39°14′57″N120°45′13″W / 39.24917°N 120.75361°W Coordinates: 39°14′57″N120°45′13″W / 39.24917°N 120.75361°W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Placer County
Elevation [1]	4,655 ft (1,419 m)

Last updated March 25, 2019

Drum is a former settlement in Placer County, California.^[1] Drum is located 5 miles (8.0 km) east-northeast of Dutch Flat.^[2] It lay at an elevation of 4655 feet (1419 m).^[1]

Placer County, officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 348,432. The county seat is Auburn.

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.

Dutch Flat is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Auburn along Interstate 80. It was founded by German immigrants in 1851 and was once one of the richest gold mining locations in California. Dutch Flat is now registered as a California Historical Landmark.

The Drum post office operated from 1913 to 1915.^[2]

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References

1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Drum, Placer County, California
1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 478. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

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[gnis-1] 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Drum, Placer County, California

[CGN-2] 1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 478. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Placer County, California, United States
County seat: Auburn
Cities and towns	Auburn Colfax Lincoln Loomis Rocklin Roseville	Placer County map
CDPs	Alta Carnelian Bay Dollar Point Dutch Flat Foresthill Granite Bay Kings Beach Kingvale‡ Meadow Vista Newcastle North Auburn Penryn Sheridan Sunnyside-Tahoe City Tahoe Vista Tahoma‡
Unincorporated communities	Alpine Meadows Applegate Baxter Big Bend Blue Canyon Bowman Brockway Cape Horn Casa Loma Chambers Lodge Cisco Cisco Grove Clayton Clipper Gap Donner Eder Elders Corner Emigrant Gap Forebay Four Acres Gold Hill Greekstore Heather Glen Hidden Valley Homewood Hughes Mill Idlewild Iowa Hill Kilaga Springs Lake Forest Lander Crossing Last Chance Magra McCulloh Michigan Bluff Midas Monte Vista Nielsburg Ophir Pinecroft Rainbow Rampart Ramsey Crossing Rawhide Secret Town Soda Springs Squaw Valley Sunnyside Tahoe City Tahoe Pines The Cedars Todd Valley Towle Troy Virginiatown Westville Weimar Whitney Yankee Jims Zuver
Ghost towns	Ackerman Andover Arctic Baltimore Bath Blue Bluffs Bullion Cairns Ceres Flat Chicago Park Coon Creek Deadwood Drum East Auburn Flat Ravine Florence Spring Fort Trojan Frytown Fulda Gilsons Station Goggins Gold Run Indiana Hill Knapp Kulkumish Leta Little Rattlesnake Bar Lone Star Lost Camp Mayflower Millertown Mineral Bar Molma Moss Hills Oilville Pine Grove Pitsokut Ralston Red Point Secret Canyon Secret Ravine Smiths Spruce Stanford Stewarts Flat Stonehill Tamarack Union Shed Vantrent Webster Yorkville
Footnotes	‡This CDP also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Drum
Former settlement
Drum Location in California
Coordinates: 39°14′57″N120°45′13″W / 39.24917°N 120.75361°W / 39.24917; -120.75361 Coordinates: 39°14′57″N120°45′13″W / 39.24917°N 120.75361°W / 39.24917; -120.75361
Country	United States
State	California
County	Placer County
Elevation^[1]	4,655 ft (1,419 m)