Iceland, once known as Cuba, was an ice farming and lumbering community in eastern Nevada County, California.

A little later, Joseph Gray, one of Truckee's founders, built a lumber mill in Cuba.

[10] In 1897, Mary Dysart applied to open a post office to be called Iceland.

Mary was the wife of David M. Dysart, Superintendent of the National Ice Company's Iceland facility.

The post office was to be located about 150 feet from the Cuba railroad station, on the south side of the track.

[12] By 1923, with the advent of ice-making machines and refrigerated rail cars, the ice industry came to a sudden end.