Calneva (/kælˈniː.və/)[2] is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California.

[1] It is located 10 miles (16 km) north-northeast of Doyle,[3] at an elevation of 4009 feet (1222 m).

[4] The town was developed in the hope of finding sufficient water to sustain it.

[6] This, combined with the farm prices crash of the 1920s, failure of mining ventures and the cancellation of an additional rail line led to the town declining until it was no longer viable to operate either a post office or a station there.

[6] During the 1916 New York City polio epidemic a quarantine officer was stationed there to medically examine passengers from New York, New Jersey and Chicago in an attempt to prevent the disease spreading to California.