Buntingville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Lassen County,
California
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.
It is located southwest of
Litchfield,
at an elevation of 4091 feet (1247 m).
It is located just northwest of
Honey Lake
Honey Lake is an endorheic basin, endorheic sink (geography), sink in the Honey Lake Valley in northeastern California, near the Nevada border. Summer evaporation reduces the lake to a lower level of and creates an alkali flat. Honey Lake dries ...
.
Buntingville is the southern terminus of
County Route A3 (
Standish Buntingville Road) at its junction with
U.S. 395.
Alexander J. Bunting opened a
general store
A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, someti ...
at the site in 1878 at the intersection of
Alturas and
Reno
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, ...
Stage Road.
The general store became an accommodation for travelers. The settlement was just south of
Janesville and during the boom time in the late
1870s
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The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as great new empires, imperialism and m ...
and early
1880s
The 1880s (pronounced "eighteen-eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1880, and ended on December 31, 1889.
The period was characterized in general by economic growth and prosperity in many parts of the world, especially Europe and ...
, there was a small rivalry. In 1900, the short-lived ''Buntingville Breeze'' was published for two months. On July 10, 1911, Honey Lake Valley's first
telephone
A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most ...
company headquarters opened. However, financial difficulties resulted in the telephone company to be taken over by Lassen Telephone Company.
A post office operated in Buntingville from 1883 to 1884, from 1899 to 1907, and from 1915 to 1920.
References
External links
Buntingville on california.hometownlocator.com
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Lassen County, California
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