Hammil is an

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in Mono County,

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. It is located west-northwest of

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, at an elevation of 4593 feet (1400 m). The Hammil brothers (William, Hugh, and Robert) homesteaded at the site in 1870. The

Carson and Colorado Railroad The Carson and Colorado Railway was a U.S. narrow gauge railroad that ran from Mound House, Nevada, to Keeler, California below the Cerro Gordo Mines. It was incorporated on May 10, 1880 as the Carson and Colorado ''Railroad'', and constructio ...

arrived in 1883 and named the settlement after them. Hammil's postal service was handled by the Mocalno, which operated from 1915 to 1937. Mocalno was named by adding "cal" for California in the Mono (the county's name).

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