West Hartley was an

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in eastern

Contra Costa County ) of the San Francisco Bay , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_name1 = California , subdivision_type2 ...

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. 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.GhostTowns.com
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 {{California-ghost-town-stub