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Location of Colfax in Placer County, California. Colfax (formerly Alden Grove, Alder Grove, Illinoistown, and Upper Corral) is a city in Placer County, California, [4] at the crossroads of Interstate 80 and State Route 174. The population was 1,963 at the 2010 census. The town is named in honor of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax (1869–73 ...
State Route 174. State Route 174 ( SR 174) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. The two-lane 13-mile (21 km) highway in the western Sierra Nevada, added to the state highway system in 1933, connects Interstate 80 in Colfax with SR 20 / SR 49 in Grass Valley, crossing the Bear River next to a 1924 concrete arch bridge.
Iowa Hill Road. Iowa Hill Road is a "narrow and serpentine" [1] road in Placer County, California. It is in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It connects the town of Colfax (elevation 2,425 feet) with the Sugar Pine Reservoir (elevation 3,609 feet), passing through the historic gold mining community of Iowa Hill (elevation 2,861 feet).
Secret Town was the site of a very long trestle railroad bridge. The 1100 ft (335 m) long and 95 ft (29 m) high Secret Town wooden trestle on the Central Pacific Railroad's grade, like most of the other trestles of the line, was filled in with earth and rock after the railroad opened to traffic and could afford to send Chinese laborers back to improve the right-of-way by reducing the risk of ...
The River Fire was a destructive 2021 wildfire that burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) near Colfax in Nevada County and Placer County, California. The fire broke out on August 4, 2021, and burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) before it was fully contained on August 13, 2021. [1] The River Fire destroyed 142 structures, damaged 21 more, and resulted in four ...
Ogee weir a concrete channel. Spillway capacity. 60000 second feet. Rollins Dam (National ID # CA00255) is a dam on the border of Nevada and Placer counties in northern California, in the United States. The earthen dam was constructed in 1965 by the Nevada Irrigation District, with a height of 228 feet (69 m), and a length of 1,840 feet (560 m ...
Colfax station is an Amtrak train station in Colfax, California.Served by the California Zephyr, it is unstaffed.The station was built in 1905 by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was restored in the early 21st century; in addition to a waiting room, the building also houses the Colfax Heritage Museum. [4]
The South Bend Tribune's former building at 225 W. Colfax Ave. is shown Aug. 9. 2024, in downtown South Bend. The first edition rolled off its new, 60-ton Goss high-speed presses on April 25, 1921 ...