Stacy was an
unincorporated town
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Lassen County
Lassen County ( ) is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,730, and was estimated to be 28,340 in 2024, Its county seat and the largest city is Susanville. ...
,
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
.
It is located north-northeast of
Doyle
Doyle is a surname of Irish origin. The name is a back-formation from O'Doyle, which is an Anglicisation of the Irish (), meaning "descendant of ''Dubhghall''". There is another possible etymology: the Anglo-Norman surname ''D'Oyley'' with aggl ...
,
at an elevation of 4016 feet (1224 m).
It was founded as a station on the
Fernley and Lassen Railway
The Fernley & Lassen was a rail line of the Southern Pacific Railroad constructed in 1912–14 between Fernley, Nevada and Westwood, California, near Susanville, a distance of approximately . The railroad was constructed to connect the Red Rive ...
in expectation of agricultural development of the area;
[(30 December 1912)]
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''Sacramento Union'', p. 6, col. 7. without irrigation, however, the area faded away.
A post office operated at Stacy from 1912 to 1951.
The name honored Stacy Spoon, the wife of the postmaster.
References
Former settlements in Lassen County, California
Former populated places in California
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