Amsterdam is an unincorporated community in Merced County, California.

[1] It is located 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northeast of Atwater,[2] at an elevation of 220 feet (67 m).

[1] Amsterdam was settled by Dutch immigrants, and had a station on the Southern Pacific branch line to Oakdale, abandoned in 1942.

[5] A post office operated at Amsterdam from 1893 to 1895, from 1900 to 1910, with a closure during part of 1906, and from 1912 to 1925.

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