Central Camp
Central Camp is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It is located 3 miles west of Shuteye Peak, at an elevation of 5417 feet. From 1923 until the early 1930s, Central Camp was the base camp for the Sugar Pine Lumber Company, one of California's largest operations at the time.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in California
- Also known as: “Central Camp, CA” and “Central Camp, California”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bass Lake and Whisky Falls.
Bass Lake
Village
Photo: Guywelch2000, Public domain.
Madera County is in California. The western half of the county is in the San Joaquin Valley, the eastern half extends across the Gold Country into the Sierra Nevada mountains. Bass Lake is situated 5 miles west of Central Camp.
Whisky Falls
Locality
Whisky Falls is an unincorporated area of Madera County, California. It is located 4.5 miles south of Shuteye Peak, at an elevation of 5,912 feet. In the early 1900s, author Stewart Edward White built a cabin on Peckinpah Mountain near the old mill near Whiskey Falls, and wrote about the experience in The Cabin. Whisky Falls is situated 5 miles southeast of Central Camp.
Central Camp
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Madera County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.34939° or 37° 20′ 58″ northLongitude
-119.48375° or 119° 29′ 2″ westElevation
5,417 feet (1,651 metres)Open location code
85928GX8+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 150940317OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Central Camp” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “中央營地”
- French: “Central Camp”
- Irish: “Central Camp”
- Turkish: “Central Camp”
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