Blue Mountain City, California

Blue Mountain City is a former settlement in Calaveras County, California,[1] along Licking Fork, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Mountain Ranch.

[2] The town was built on a flat bench of land above the mining camp which perched on a steep canyon slope on the west side of Licking Fork, just over a mile downstream from the headwaters.

[4] The Heckendorn Gold and Silver Mining Company was organized by July, with C. C. Bowman as its secretary.

[5] A post office operated in Blue Mountain from 1863 to 1864.

[2][6][7][8] Blue Mountain is also the name of a mining district located 10 miles southeast of West Point, California that includes the Black Wonder, Gold King and Heckendorn mines.