Sloat is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Plumas County Plumas County () is a county located in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 19,790. The county seat is Quincy, and the only incorporated city is Portola. The largest comm ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. It lies at an elevation of 4131 feet (1259 m). Sloat is located on the

Western Pacific Railroad The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route dire ...

, northwest of Blairsden. The place was named in 1910 to honor Commodore John D. Sloat. The Sloat post office opened in 1914. Sloat, California also is related to

Sloatsburg, New York Sloatsburg is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town of Ramapo, New York, Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, Rockland County, New York (state), New York, United States. L ...

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Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Plumas County, California {{PlumasCountyCA-geo-stub