Bangor, California
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Bangor is an unincorporated community inside Butte County, California, about 1.5 miles from the Yuba County line. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) feature ID is 218644 and the elevation is given as 755 feet above mean sea level (AMSL). The community is in a shallow valley with surrounding hills in the 800-950 foot range.
Bangor was founded as a mining boom-town in the 1850s and named by the Lumbert Brothers, early settlers and storekeepers, for their home-town of Bangor, Maine
Latitude and longitude for the community are given as and the community is located at a cross roads. Oroville-Bangor Highway becomes Los Verjeles Road south of town, these roads running roughly north-south. LaPorte Road runs somewhat east-west through the community. There are two restaurants listed in the telephone directory. Bangor is in area code 530 and has a ZIP Code of 95914. Driving east on LaPorte Road into the mountains eventually leads to Camp Eighteen.
[edit] External links
- June 1998 plane crash near Bangor.
- See a weather station in Bangor.
- Bangor, California is at coordinates Coordinates:
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