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Pine Valley is a community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Cuyamaca Mountains of the Mountain Empire area, in southeastern San Diego County, California. The population was 1,645 at the 2020 census , up from 1,510 at the 2010 census .
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [ 1 ] There are 35 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark .
Rolling hills of Auburn, taken near Indian Hill Road. Auburn is located at 13]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2), of which 0.03 square miles (0.078 km 2), or 0.38%, is water.
Auburn State Recreation Area is a state park unit of California, along 40 miles (64 km) of the North and Middle Forks of the American River. The state recreation area (SRA) is situated on the border of Placer and El Dorado Counties in the heart of historic Gold Country. The largest city with close proximity is the city of Auburn. Once teeming ...
The former Overland Emigrant Trail, which was used by travelers from points east to the California gold fields, crosses the present day SR 49 near Wolf Creek. [50] Empire Mine was in constant operation from 1850 to the late 1950s. [51] Gold Hill in Grass Valley was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold in California. [52]
A number of Westerns have been filmed at the Garner Ranch in Garner Valley: Guns and Guitars (1936), Heading for the Rio Grande (1936), Springtime in the Rockies (1937), Brothers in the Saddle (1949), Riders of the Range (1949), and Storm over Wyoming (1950). The Garner Ranch also stood in for the Ponderosa in episodes of the TV show Bonanza.
The United States Congress enacted the Rancheria Termination Act in 1953, which terminated federal trust responsibilities to the Auburn Band, among many other California Indian tribes. Only a 2.8-acre (11,000 m 2 ) parcel of land with a park and a church remained after the government sold the Auburn Rancheria land.
This extension was officially eliminated in the 1964 renumbering, [57] but it remained on maps and signs for several more years [58] [59] [60] before being replaced by I-80 over the Bay Bridge, I-580 over Altamont Pass, I-205 business route through Tracy, I-5 to Stockton, SR 4 (Charter Way) and SR 26 through Stockton, and SR 99 to Sacramento.