Yankee Jims (also, Yankee Jim and Yankee Jim's) is a small community in

Placer County Placer County ( ; ''Placer'', Spanish language, Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was ...

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. It lies at an elevation of 2582 feet (787 m) in the

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foothills. Yankee Jims is located west-northwest of

Foresthill Foresthill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento– Arden-Arcade– Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,692 at the 2020 census, up from 1,483 ...

History

Yankee Jims was once one of the largest mining camps in Placer County during the

California Gold Rush The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the U ...

. The Yankee Jim's post office operated from 1852 to 1940. The name comes from an Australian criminal who hid stolen horses at the site before gold was discovered there. The town site is marked by

California Historical Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in the U.S. state of California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Criteria Historical significance is determined by meetin ...

#398, located on a ridge between the North and Middle forks of the

American River The American River is a List of rivers of California, river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown Sacramento. Via the Sacramento River, it ...

. Mildred Brooke Hoover, Douglas E. Kyle, Historic spots in California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2002. pp. 279-280
/ref> Yankee Jims today is a small town composed simply of a cluster of homes. Its population was 18 in 2016.

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External links

Californiagenealogy.org: ''Directory of the County of Placer County, California 1861'' listing for Yankee Jims, Placer County, California.
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