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Welcome to Donner Lake Village (aka 'Donner Lake') ...

The village of Donner Lake Village is located in Nevada County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Donner Lake Village, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1866.

Donner Lake Village is 5,950 feet [1,814 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Donner Lake Village is about 1¼ mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Donner Lake Village lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Donner Lake Village: 530

The village of Donner Lake Village has also been called Donner Lake.

Communities near Donner Lake Village ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Donner Lake Village.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Donner Lake Village. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Donner Lake Village.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Donner Lake Village. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Donner Lake Village.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Donner Lake Village. See our Newspapers Page for Donner Lake Village.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Donner Lake Village ...

Looking for more information about Donner Lake Village? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Donner Lake Village, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Donner Lake Village.

Adding Donner Lake Village to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Donner Lake Village in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Donner Lake Village was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Donner Lake Village post office opened in 1866.

We also found Donner Lake Village mentioned on a train schedule titled Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Donner Lake Village.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Nevada, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Donner Lake Village - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/