Enterprise is a former mining camp 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 is located west-northwest of
Fiddletown, on
Big Indian Creek,
at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m). Established to mine
quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). The atoms are linked in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical form ...
, at its peak it had a population of around a hundred, but the prospects did not pan out, and there are only a few houses in the area now.
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Amador County, California
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