Electra (formerly, Whites Bar) is a former settlement in

Amador County Amador County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,474. The county seat is Jackson. Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

. It lay on the north bank of the

Mokelumne River The Mokelumne River ( or ; ''Mokelumne'', Miwok for "People of the Fish Net") is a -long river in northern California in the United States. The river flows west from a rugged portion of the central Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada into the Ce ...

, at an elevation of 755 feet (230 m). Its name came from a nearby electric generating facility. A post office operated at Electra from 1900 to 1923.

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* Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Amador County, California {{AmadorCountyCA-geo-stub