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Dogtown
Dogtown is located in California
Dogtown
Dogtown
Location in California
Dogtown is located in the United States
Dogtown
Dogtown
Location in the United States
Country United States
State California
County Mariposa County
Elevation
2,582 ft (787 m)

Dogtown is a former settlement in Mariposa County, California, United States. It was located on Maxwell Creek 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Coulterville, at an elevation of 2582 feet (787 m).

Dogtown was a major hydraulic mining center in the late nineteenth century. ..... The town was supposedly named for the many stray dogs that roamed the area during the Gold Rush. A dam failure flooded much of the townsite in 1899; by 1989, only "scattered building foundations and half a dozen wooden structures on the verge of collapse" remained at the site.

Several unrelated communities and mining camps in California also had the name Dogtown during the nineteenth century; including one in Mono County, one in neighboring Merced County, another in Butte County (now Magalia), one in Calaveras County, and a later settlement in Marin County.

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