Malay Camp, California

Malay Camp is a former settlement and mining camp in Yuba County, California, United States.

It was located on the Yuba River, 1.25 miles (2.0 km) north-northeast of Smartsville, across the river from Landers Bar.^[1]

The place name refers to the early miners here during the California Gold Rush from the Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia.^[1]

References

1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 557. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

Municipalities and communities of Yuba County, California, United States

County seat: Marysville

Cities	Marysville Wheatland

CDPs	Beale AFB Camptonville Challenge-Brownsville Dobbins Linda Loma Rica Olivehurst Plumas Lake Rackerby‡ Smartsville

Unincorporated communities	Alicia Arboga Binney Junction Browns Valley Brownsville Challenge Dantoni Eagleville East Arboga Frenchtown Greenville Hammonton Horstville Iowa City Mello North Star Oak Valley Olive Hill Oregon House Ostrom Pearson Ramirez Rancho Loma Rica Sharon Valley Sicard Flat South Yuba Stanfield Hill Strawberry Valley Sucker Flat Tambo Timbuctoo Waldo Junction Weeds Point West Linda Woodleaf

Ghost towns	Abbott House Algodon Bartons House Bliss Bullards Bar California House Camp Pendola Cape Horn Bar Condemned Bar Coombs Cordua Bar Depot Hill Egan Empire House English Bar Erle Foster Bar Frenches Ravine Galena Hill Galena House Garden Valley Golden Ball Honkut Huntington Hutchins Kentucky Ranch Landers Bar Lasslys Lewis Malay Camp Marigold Martins House Mission Mount Hope House New York Flat New York House New York House Flat New York Ranch Newbert Oak Grove Oakland Oliver Oso Plumas Plumas Landing Prairie Diggings Prairie House Prairie House Rail Road Hill Reed Junction Round Tent Seneca House Sweet Vengeance Taisida Youngs Hill Yuba Yuba County House

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

California Gold rush

Geology	Gold in California

People	List of people associated with the California Gold Rush Women in the California Gold Rush

Culture	Oh, California Oh My Darling, Clementine De Hamborger Veermaster Mursheen Durkin

Early US mining	Comstock Lode Copper mining in Michigan

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Malay Camp, California

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