1950 Map of Quincy

About this map

American Valley serves as the central focus of this 1950s era survey, where the town of Quincy and nearby East Quincy sit at the intersection of mountain geography and local industry. The map captures the infrastructure of the Plumas County seat, including the County Hospital, Gansner Airport, and the County Fairground. To the north, the landscape reveals the legacy of the Gold Rush through features like the Imperial Mine, Newtown Mine, and the Hungarian Placer Mine. Small settlements like Newtown and Elizabethtown flank the Spanish Creek drainage, while the higher elevations of the Plumas National Forest rise sharply to the south, where peaks like Claremont tower over the Feather River experimental grounds. These mountain slopes are marked by numerous ravines and creeks, such as Dublin Jack Ravine and Boyle Ravine, which defined the difficult routes for early prospectors and settlers.