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One is listed in the [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620.  This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road
One is listed in the [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620.  This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road
* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" p. 261. "In the fall of 1861 J.H. Breed bought his brother's share of the Smoke Creek Station and probably got the part that belonged to Hines a little later on. He stayed there the following winter and in the spring sold out to I.J/ Harvey who had been employed to buy the property for a United States Army Post During the winter of 1862-63 William V. Kingsbury established a trading post at Smoke Creek and afterwards kept a station or hotel in connection with it. He stayed there until late in the 60's."  
* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" p. 261. "In the fall of 1861 J.H. Breed bought his brother's share of the Smoke Creek Station and probably got the part that belonged to [[Fred Hines | Hines]] a little later on. He stayed there the following winter and in the spring sold out to I.J. Harvey who had been employed to buy the property for a United States Army Post During the winter of 1862-63 William V. Kingsbury established a trading post at Smoke Creek and afterwards kept a station or hotel in connection with it. He stayed there until late in the 60's."  
* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.
* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.
* Helen S. Carlson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA219&ots=KPJpXii0vi&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22&pg=PA219#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line.  This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]].
* Helen S. Carlson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA219&ots=KPJpXii0vi&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22&pg=PA219#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line.  This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]].

Revision as of 18:14, 27 November 2014

Note that there are two Smoke Creek Stations, one to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert, the other to the east.

One is listed in the GNIS as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620. This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road

The other is located on the WP Railroad south of Reynard and west of Wild Horse Canyon [1].

References

  1. Helen S. Carlson, "Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 219