Meeks Bay (formerly, Meigs Bay, Micks Bay, and Murphys) is an
unincorporated community in
El Dorado County
El Dorado County (), officially the County of El Dorado, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 191,185. The county seat is Placerville. The County is part of the Sacramento- Roseville-A ...
,
California.
It lies on
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe (; was, Dáʔaw, meaning "the lake") is a Fresh water, freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada of the United States. Lying at , it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevad ...
at the mouth of
Meeks Creek
Meeks Creek is a western tributary of Lake Tahoe which has its source on Rubicon Lake, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) northeast of Phipps Peak in Desolation Wilderness, trends northwest through Stony Ridge Lake, Shadow Lake, Crag Lake, and Lake Geneviev ...
, at an elevation of 6240 feet (1902 m).
The place is named for John Meeks, who owned the land.
The Meeks brothers baled 25 tons of wild hay in the meadows at the mouth of Meeks Creek in 1862.
[
A post office operated at Meeks Bay from 1929 to 1972.]
Ecology
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in El Dorado County, California
1929 establishments in California
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