Furnace, California

Furnace
Unincorporated community
Furnace Location in California
Coordinates: 36°11′25″N 116°39′50″W / 36.19028°N 116.66389°W / 36.19028; -116.66389Coordinates: 36°11′25″N 116°39′50″W / 36.19028°N 116.66389°W / 36.19028; -116.66389
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County

Furnace is a former settlement in Inyo County, California.^[1] It was located 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Funeral Peak, in the Funeral Mountains.^[1]

Patrick Clark founded the Furnace Creek Copper Company at the place in Death Valley.^[1] Furnace was a boomtown by 1905, but deserted by 1907.^[1] The Furnace post office operated from 1907 to 1908.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1165. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells West Bishop Wilkerson
Unincorporated communities	Aberdeen Alabama Hills Alico Alta Vista Ashford Junction Aspendell Badwater Ballarat Bartlett Beveridge Blackrock Brockmans Corner Calvada Springs Coso Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Evelyn Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells Indian Village Junction Ranch Kearsarge Keough Hot Springs Laws Linnie Millspaugh Mock Monola Oteys Sierra Village Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Peterson Mill Poleta Reward Rocking K Rovana Ryan Scranton Seven Pines Stovepipe Wells Sykes Talus Teakettle Junction Whitney Portal Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Lone Pine Reservation
Ghost towns	Ashford Mill Avena Bend City Bradford Siding Burnt Wagons Carthage Cerro Gordo Landing Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Clark Copperfield Coso Dunmovin Echo Elna Furnace Furnace Creek Inn Greenwater Gerstley Horton Intake Jay Kasson Kearsarge Lane Mill Leadfield Lee Lila C Lookout City Manzanar Narka Newburyport 9 Mile Station Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Roachville San Carlos Scheelite Schwaub Skyes Sodan Stewarts Sunland Swansea Tule Station White Mountain City

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