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The CDP is named after the valley in which it lies, a 5-mile-wide (8 km) basin between the Sonoma Range to the east and the East Range to the west. Nevada State Route 294 (Grass Valley Road) runs from Grass Valley into Winnemucca. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Grass Valley CDP has an area of 34.5 square miles (89.4 km 2), all land. [2]
The north of Grass Valley is traversed by Nevada State Route 294; for 5 miles (8.0 km) into the valley it is paved.It becomes the unimproved road, Grass Valley Road, and goes through the valley center-east near the mountain foothills; 25 miles (40 km) [7] further it reaches Goldbanks (site) at the south terminus of Grass Valley, the northwest region of the Tobin Range.
SE of Grass Valley at 338 E. Empire St. Grass Valley: Boundary increase on 2013-04-10 ... Nevada City Free Public Library: December 10, 1990 : 211 N. Pine St.
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The mountain slopes of the Banner Mountain was the historical location once known as "The Republic of North California", which was only a farm land of 10 acres. [7] It was situated between the early gold mining towns of Grass Valley and Nevada City.
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Gold Hill in Grass Valley, California, was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold [2] in California. While quartz gold was also found in other areas of Nevada County, California during the same time, it is this find near Wolf Creek that led to quartz-mining frenzy and subsequent creation of the Gold Country quartz-mining industry.
In October 1850, George Roberts discovered gold in a quartz outcrop on Ophir Hill, [5] but sold the claim in 1851 to Woodbury, Parks and Co. for $350 (or about $13,000 today, adjusted for inflation). The Woodbury Company consolidated several local claims into the Ophir Hill Mine, but they mismanaged their finances and in 1852 were forced to ...