Blue Mountain City is a former settlement in

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, along Licking Fork, approximately northeast of

Mountain Ranch Mountain Ranch (formerly, El Dorado and El Dorado Town) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 1,628 at the 2010 census, up from 1,557 at the 2000 census. The town is registered as Cali ...

. A post office operated in Blue Mountain from 1863 to 1864. Blue Mountain is also the name of a mining district located 10 miles southeast of

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that includes the Black Wonder, Gold King and Heckendorn mines.

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