Wyandotte is an
unincorporated community in
Butte County,
California. It is located northwest of
Bangor,
at an elevation of 669 feet (204 m).
A post office operated at Wyandotte from 1859 (having been transferred from
Tarr's Ranch) to 1867 and from 1880 to 1915.
The place is named for a group of
Wyandotte people
The Wyandot people, or Wyandotte and Waⁿdát, are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. The Wyandot are Iroquoian Indigenous peoples of North America who emerged as a confederacy of tribes around the north shore of Lake Ontario w ...
who went there prospecting for
gold in 1850.
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Butte County, California
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