Daulton
Unincorporated community
Daulton is located in California
Daulton
Daulton
Location in California
Daulton is located in the United States
Daulton
Daulton
Daulton (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°07′09″N 119°58′56″W / 37.11917°N 119.98222°W / 37.11917; -119.98222
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyMadera County
Elevation
[1]
404 ft (123 m)

Daulton was an unincorporated community in Madera County, California.[1] It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad Raymond Branch (formerly the San Joaquin Valley and Yosemite Railroad) 8 miles (13 km) south-southwest of Raymond,[2] at an elevation of 404 feet (123 m).[1]

A post office operated at Daulton from 1899 to 1908.[2] The name honors Henry C. Daulton, chairman of the commission that established Madera County, who gave the railroad right of way on his land.[2]

Daulton was the site of a copper mine established in the 1860s and operated by the California Copper Company.[3] Copper ore from the Copper Queen, California Copper Company, Questo, and Adobe Ranch mines was shipped by team or rail to a smelter at Madera.[4] The rail line from Daulton to Raymond was abandoned and removed in 1946,[5] and the remainder of the railroad was abandoned in 1956.[6] Little remains at the site today.

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Daulton, California
  2. ^ a b c Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 764. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  3. ^ Bradley, Walter Wadsworth; Brown, G. Chester; Lowell, F.L.; McLaughlin, Roy Parmelee (1915). Mines and Mineral Resources of the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus. Sacramento, CA: State Printing Office. p. 112.
  4. ^ Aubury, Lewis E. (1905). The Copper Resources of California. San Francisco, CA: California State Mining Bureau. pp. 218–222.
  5. ^ Letson, Lester J. (2011). "Raymond". HMdb.org. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  6. ^ Robertson, Donald B. (1998). Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History. Volume IV. California. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. p. 219. ISBN 0870043854.


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