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Weeds Point is an unincorporated locality in Tahoe National Forest, in Yuba County. It is located southwest of Oak Valley, north of Camptonville, northeast of Galena Hill, and east of Youngs Hill. Its elevation is 2,917 feet.

(There is also a peak near Strawberry Valley that is named Weed Point, without the s.)

The native plant community of Weeds Point is yellow pine forest.

History

Weeds Point is named for a miner who abandoned his claim here in 1853, twelve years before gold mining at this location became profitable.1 The History of Yuba County, California (Chapter XXXIII: Slate Range Township) by Thompson & West, 1879, described Weeds Point this way:

Work was commenced here, three miles above Camptonville on Horse Valley Creek, in 1853, but abandoned on account of the difficulty of working it. The place derived its name from a miner named Weed. In 1865, work was resumed and has been continuous ever since. The Weed Point mine consists of twenty feet of sand, fine gravel and pipe clay, forty feet of coarse gravel, pope clay and sand, ten feet of boulders, gravel, sand and clay to the bed rock. The mine is rich, especially the last ten feet. The blasting is done in the summer, when eight or ten men are employed. In the winter, only five men are at work. The company has its own water, and makes a clean up four or five times a year. Petrifactions of oak and madrone and impressions of leaves are found in the clay. At one time there were a store, saloon, hotel, etc., at this place, but they have all been abandoned. There are thirty men here at present.
The Atchison Brothers first located the ranch now owned by John Ramm. They were public spirited men, building roads and bridges all through this region. D. O. Adkison worked the ranch on shares and afterwards took charge of the dairy, peddling milk in the mines. There is but one quartz ledge being worked in the township, the Honeycomb. The owners are preparing to erect a stamp mill. Frequent fires in the forest call out the all population to save their homes and property from destruction.

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Links

Weeds Point entry on Wikipedia

Footnotes

1. California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State by David L. Durham. Word Dancer Press, 1998

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