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Place Name
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Angels Camp
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Place Status (Type)
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city
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Population
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2,409 (1990)
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Location
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Calaveras County, California (CA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Angels Camp
, city (1990 pop. 2,409), Calaveras co., central
Calif., c.43 mi/69 km E of Stockton, in Sierra
Nevada foothills, on Angels Creek. Mfg. (computer peripherals). Holds
annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, honoring Mark Twain's story (“The
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”). Logging, gold mining, stone
quarrying; cattle, grapes, walnuts, olives, honey, oats. Founded after
gold was discovered here in 1848; inc. 1912.
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