West Hartley was an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in eastern
Contra Costa County
) of the San Francisco Bay
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,
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 was located northeast of
Mount Diablo
Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton, California, Clayton and northeast of Danville, Califo ...
,
at an elevation of 440 feet (134 m). It is now a ghost town. It was a mining town for the nearby coal mines.
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retrieved September 17, 2007
It was founded in the late 1880s and named for England's West Hartley coal mine.
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Former settlements in Contra Costa County, California
Unincorporated communities in California
Ghost towns in California
Ghost towns in the San Francisco Bay Area
Company towns in California
Populated places established in the 1880s
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