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Welcome to Donner Lake ...The village of Donner Lake is located in Nevada County<1>. The location of Donner Lake has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2> While we don't have a date for the founding of Donner Lake, you might consider that their post office opened in 1866. A typical abbreviation for Donner Lake: Donner Lk. Donner Lake is 5,950 feet [1,814 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Donner Lake is about 1¼ mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: Donner Lake lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time The telephone area code for Donner Lake: (530) Communities near Donner Lake ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Donner Lake.
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. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Donner Lake. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Donner Lake. 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. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Donner Lake. See our Newspapers Page for Donner Lake. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Donner Lake ...Looking for more information about Donner Lake? 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, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Donner Lake. Adding Donner Lake to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Donner Lake 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 was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Donner Lake mentioned on a train schedule titled Greyhound Bus Time Table (November 1931). For more details, see References and Mentions for Donner Lake. Off-the-Road Links ...Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Donner Lake. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page. The official website for Nevada County: www.new.mynevadacounty.com/ The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/ Footnotes ...
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