Mooney Flat
Mooney Flat was an important mining and transportation hub in western Nevada County, California, just east of the Yuba County line. It was situated on modern Mooney Flat Road, about 1 mile north of modern Highway 20, at an elevation of about 800 ft.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in California
- Also known as: “Mooney Flat, CA”, “Mooney Flat, California”, and “Mooneys Flat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Englebright Dam.
Englebright Dam
Dam
Photo: Philm555, Public domain.
Englebright Dam is a 280 ft high variable radius concrete arch dam on the Yuba River in the Sacramento River Basin, located in Yuba and Nevada counties of California, United States. Englebright Dam is situated 1½ miles north of Mooney Flat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smartsville and Timbuctoo.
Smartsville
Hamlet
Photo: Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smartsville is a census-designated place in Yuba County, California, United States, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It is one of the many historic towns in California's gold country, and is today a California Historical Landmark.
Timbuctoo
Hamlet
Timbuctoo is an unincorporated community in Yuba County, California. It lies northwest of Smartsville, at an elevation of 397 feet. Timbuctoo is situated 2½ miles west of Mooney Flat.
Sicard Flat
Hamlet
Sicard Flat is an unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, USA. It is located 3 miles west-northwest of Smartville, at an elevation of 348 feet. The name honors Theodore Sicard, miner and merchant, who settled here in 1848. Sicard Flat is situated 4 miles west of Mooney Flat.
Mooney Flat
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Nevada County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.21545° or 39° 12′ 56″ northLongitude
-121.2744° or 121° 16′ 28″ westElevation
741 feet (226 metres)Open location code
84FW6P8G+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 141039773OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Mooney Flat” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “穆尼弗拉特”
- French: “Mooney Flat”
- Irish: “Mooney Flat”
- Persian: “مونی فلت”
- South Azerbaijani: “مونئی فلات، کالیفورنیا”
- Turkish: “Mooney Flat”
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