Hooperville, a former

gold mining Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface ...

camp, near Fort Jones in the 1850s in

Siskiyou County, California Siskiyou County (, ) is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion ...

. Its site lies at an elevation of 3054 feet, (931 m). The village site is on Indian Creek road, and Schoolhouse Gap fort jones ca. There are a few mines left (private) and the obvious remains of the stamp mill footings.

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Former populated places in Siskiyou County, California Ghost towns in California {{SiskiyouCountyCA-geo-stub