| Hammonton | |
| Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
| Pushpin Map: | California#USA |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in California |
| Pushpin Image: | California Locator Map with US.PNG |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | California |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Yuba County |
| Coordinates: | 39.1931°N -121.4208°W |
| Elevation M: | 40 |
| Elevation Ft: | 131 |
Hammonton (formerly, Dredgertown and Dredgerville) is a former settlement in Yuba County, California. It is located 3.5miles south of Browns Valley, at an elevation of 131 feet (40 m).
Hammonton was a company town for the Yuba Consolidated Mines, which dredged gold from the Yuba River floodplain. Established in 1906, Hammonton had 250 residents, a store, service station, and swimming pool by 1938, when the townspeople were forced to move two miles so that the original townsite could be razed and dredged.[1] In 1957, the residents were again relocated, this time to Linda, so that the new townsite could also be dredged; Hammonton ceased to exist at that time.[2] The Yuba Goldfields now cover the townsites.
A post office operated at Hammonton from 1906 to 1957. The name is in honor of W.P. Hammon, gold-dredging company official.