Camptonville (formerly, Comptonville and Gold Ridge) is a small town
and census-designated place (CDP) located in northeastern Yuba County,
California. The town is located 36 miles (58 km) northeast of
Marysville, off Highway 49 between Downieville and Nevada City. It is
located on a ridge between the North Fork and Middle Fork of the Yuba
River, not far from New Bullards Bar Dam Reservoir. Camptonville lies
at an elevation of 2825 feet (861 m). The population was 158 at the
2010 census.Gold was discovered here in 1850, and the place became
known as Gold Ridge. The name was changed to Camptonville in 1854 when
the first post office opened. The name honors Robert Campton, the town
blacksmith.It was a significant community in the California Gold Rush
era and a stopping point for travelers and freight haulers along
Henness Pass Road, a major route over the Sierra Nevada via Henness
Pass in the 1850s and 1860s. A plaque in Camptonville says the roaring
town had over fifty saloons had brothels and even a bowling alley at
one time. However, by 1863 William H. Brewer passed through
Camptonville and described it in his journal as follows:As gold mining
in the area waned, the local economy depended on the timber industry.
When Sierra Mountain Mills closed in 1994 putting 75 people out of
work, many people moved away. Today the town includes the Lost Nugget
gas station and convenience store, a post office, Camptonville
Elementary School; a monument to the Pelton wheel, the inventor of
which lived here in the 1860s; and the original Mayo Saloon, currently
home to a restaurant and bar called Burgee Dave's at the Mayo; and the
Yuba River Ranger District Office of the Tahoe National Forest, which
is also the headquarters of the Tahoe Hotshots fire crew. Camptonville, California Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter