Ettersburg, California

Ettersburg (also, Etter[1]) is a locality[1] in Humboldt County, California. It is located 12.5 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Phillipsville,[1] at an elevation of 676 feet (206 m).[2]

A post office operated at Ettersburg from 1902 to 1906 and from 1915 to 1965.[1] The name comes from the ancestral home of homesteader Albert F. Etter.[1]

References
  1. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-884995-14-9.
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ettersburg

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