Lomo, Butte County, California Explained

40.0386°N -121.6161°W

Lomo
Settlement Type:	Unincorporated community
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Pushpin Label Position:	bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in California
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Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	California
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Butte County
Coordinates:	40.0386°N -121.6161°W
Elevation M:	1152
Elevation Ft:	3779

Lomo (Spanish for 'Hill') is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies 4.5miles southwest of Butte Meadows, at an elevation of 3779 feet (1152 m).

History

A post office operated at Lomo from 1878 to 1881. It was previously known as Wakefields Station, for Henry Wakefield, who established a homestead on the site in 1864 and provided accommodations for teams and stages on the Humboldt Wagon Road.^[1]

Lomo once had a lumber mill,^[2] a school, and a hotel.^[3] The hotel burned down in 1882 and again in 1885. Today, Lomo is little more than an intersection, with "a few occupied dwellings" in the surrounding forest.

Notes and References

1. Book: Womack, Ron . 2018 . White . George F. . Ten Miles of Roadside Archaeology Along the Old Humbodt Wagon Road . Association for Northern California Historical Research . 71-72 . Wakefield Station - The Wake of the Wakefields . 978-1-931994-29-3.
2. Book: Chang, Anita L. . The Historical Geography of the Humboldt Wagon Road . Association for Northern California Records and Research . 1992 . Chico, CA . 23.
3. Book: Mark, Andy . Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road . The History Press . 2020 . Charleston, SC . 59–60 . 978-1-4396-6978-5 .