Leadfield, California

Leadfield was an unincorporated community, and historic mining town in Inyo County, California.

The product of extensive and fraudulent advertising by the Western Lead Mine Company and C.C.

Fifteen miles of road were built up the canyon to connect with the road to Beatty, Nevada, a concrete foundation for a stamp mill was poured, and the beginning of a series of power poles for electric lines were installed.

Historic photographs show some frame and corrugated metal buildings and there is evidence of a few dugouts, but the majority of the denizens of Leadfield lived in tents of varying sizes and construction.

[3] The remains of the town include a few rusted metal sheds and two locked, abandoned mine shafts, as of 2005.

Leadfield, California
Inyo County map