Waloupa, California

Walloupa (also, Waloupa)[1] was a historic mining community in Nevada County, located about 1/2 mile south of You Bet.

Miners from Little York crossed Steep Hollow Creek and began mining in the area in the summer of 1852.

As one paper put it, "[p]erhaps no claims in this part of the country have proved more profitable than those" around Walloupa.

Accordingly, Charles Marsh, a surveyor who had constructed a number of water ditches in the Nevada City area, joined by James Churchman and John McConnell, formed the Chalk Bluff Company to bring water by a ditch from Steep Hollow Creek.

[7] Delays in completing the 15 mile Williams ditch, as it was sometimes called,[8] led to one contemporary report that in 1853 "Walloupa starved to death.