Toadtown | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
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: | Butte County |
Coordinates: | 39.8881°N -121.5906°W |
Elevation M: | 848 |
Elevation Ft: | 2782 |
Toadtown (formerly, Allentown) is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2782 feet (848 m).
A sawmill was established near Toadtown, on Little Butte Creek, in 1859. A major underground gold mine at the site began a few years later, and had a ball mill for crushing hard gold-bearing rock.[1] The El Monte mine made a strike of high-grade ore in September, 1930, which yielded several hundred dollars and some good specimens.[2] All traces of mining activity were gone by 1970.