Chicago Park, California
For the former settlement in Placer County, see Chicago Park, Placer County, California.
| Chicago Park | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Chicago Park Location of Chicago Park in California | |
| Coordinates: 39°08′43″N 120°58′02″W / 39.14528°N 120.96722°WCoordinates: 39°08′43″N 120°58′02″W / 39.14528°N 120.96722°W[1] | |
| Country |
 United States |
| State |
 California |
| County | Nevada |
| Named for | Chicago |
| Elevation[1] | 2,313 ft (705 m) |
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 95712 |
| Area code | 530 |
| GNIS feature ID | 258262 |
Chicago Park (formerly: Storm's Station)[2] is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, along State Route 174 southeast of Grass Valley, California, and north of Colfax, California.
History
The town was settled by first-generation Italian-Americans who immigrated to the area from Chicago, Illinois.[3] Alternately, it was named by Paul Ullrich and a group of German settlers from Illinois in the 1880s.[4]
In 1915, J.F. Siems' Mountain Bartlett Pears from his Chicago Park orchard won first prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chicago Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
- ↑ Brower, Maria E. (2006). Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 0-7385-4692-5.
- ↑ "Nevada County, California Wineries". downtownnevadacounty.com. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
- ↑ Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 76. ISBN 0520213165.
- ↑ "Grand Prize PPIE 1915 Vintage Pear Crate Label". thelabelman.com. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
- ↑ "Grand Prize Pears". sacramentohistory.org. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
