Shaws Flat
Shaws Flat is a hamlet in Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California. Shaws Flat is situated nearby to the hamlet Springfield, as well as near the neighborhood Saratoga Acres.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Tuolumne County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Shaw’s Flat”, “Shaw’s Flats”, “Shaws Flat, CA”, and “Shaws Flat, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Columbia Airport and St. James’ Episcopal Church.
Columbia Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Vayne, Public domain.St. James’ Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery
The Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, also known as Pioneer Jewish Cemetery, is an inactive Jewish cemetery founded in c. 1851, and located in Sonora, California. This was the first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush region. Jewish Cemetery is situated 2 miles southeast of Shaws Flat.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springfield and Columbia.
Springfield
Hamlet
Springfield is an unincorporated community located in Tuolumne County, California, United States. It is a former California Gold Rush boomtown in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and is now designated as a California Historical Landmark.
Columbia
Columbia is a census-designated place located in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Tuolumne County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, Columbia had a population of 2,577.
Martinez
Hamlet
Martinez was a mining settlement during the California Gold Rush in Tuolumne County, California, United States. It became a ghost town, but now is a populated place at a mean elevation of 2,182 feet, north of Sawmill Flat, another former gold rush settlement. Martinez is situated 2 miles northeast of Shaws Flat.
Shaws Flat
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.0077° or 38° 0′ 28″ north
Longitude
-120.40936° or 120° 24′ 34″ west
Elevation
2,070 feet (631 metres)
Open location code
84CX2H5R+37
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shaws Flat Cemetery and Crystal Springs Mine.
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