Lomo, Butte County, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

40°02′19″N 121°36′58″W / 40.03861°N 121.61611°W / 40.03861; -121.61611

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Lomo

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Coordinates: 40°02′19″N 121°36′58″W / 40.03861°N 121.61611°W / 40.03861; -121.61611CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCountyButte CountyElevation

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3,779 ft (1,152 m)

Lomo (Spanish for 'Hill') is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies 4.5 miles (7.2 km) of Butte Meadows,^[2] at an elevation of 3779 feet (1152 m).

History

A post office operated at Lomo from 1878 to 1881.^[2] It was previously known as Wakefields Station,^[2] for Henry Wakefield, who established a homestead on the site in 1864 and provided accommodations for teams and stages on the Humboldt Wagon Road.^[3]

Lomo once had a lumber mill,^[4] a school, and a hotel.^[5] The hotel burned down in 1882 and again in 1885.^[6] Today, Lomo is little more than an intersection, with "a few occupied dwellings" in the surrounding forest.^[7]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lomo, Butte County, California
^ ^a ^b ^c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 269. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ Womack, Ron (2018). "Wakefield Station - The Wake of the Wakefields". In White, George F. (ed.). Ten Miles of Roadside Archaeology Along the Old Humbodt Wagon Road. Association for Northern California Historical Research. pp. 71–72. ISBN 978-1-931994-29-3.
^ Chang, Anita L. (1992). The Historical Geography of the Humboldt Wagon Road. Chico, CA: Association for Northern California Records and Research. p. 23.
^ Mark, Andy (2020). Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 978-1-4396-6978-5.
^ Mark 2020, p. 87.
^ Mark 2020, p. 146.