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Welcome to Last Chance ...

So far, we found very little information about Last Chance. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Last Chance to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Last Chance, please Contact Us.

Last Chance would have been located within present day Placer County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Last Chance, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1865.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Last Chance is 4,560 feet [1,390 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Last Chance is about ¾ mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Last Chance was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Last Chance ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Last Chance - they are located in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Yukon.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Last Chance.

Communities near Last Chance ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Last Chance.

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 Last Chance. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Last Chance.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Last Chance. 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 Last Chance.

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

Adding Last Chance to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Last Chance 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 Last Chance was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Last Chance post office opened in 1865.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Last Chance.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Last Chance, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Placer, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Last Chance - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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/