Enterprise is a former mining camp in Amador County,

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. It is located west-northwest of Fiddletown, on Big Indian Creek, at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m). Established to mine

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, 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.

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