- Bangor, California
Bangor is an unincorporated community inside
Butte County, California , about convert|1.5|mi|km from the Yuba County line. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) feature ID is 218644 and the elevation is given as convert|755|ft|m above mean sea level (AMSL). The community is in a shallow valley with surrounding hills in the 800-950 foot range.Bangor was founded as a mining boom-town in the 1850s and named by the Lumbert Brothers, early settlers and storekeepers, for their home-town of
Bangor, Maine Latitude and longitude for the community are given as coord|39|23|19|N|121|24|15|W and the community is located at a cross roads. Oroville-Bangor Highway becomes Los Verjeles Road south of town, these roads running roughly north-south. LaPorte Road runs somewhat east-west through the community. There are two restaurants listed in the telephone directory. Bangor is in
area code 530 and has a ZIP Code of 95914. Driving east on LaPorte Road into the mountains eventually leads to Camp Eighteen.External links
* [http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2001/A01_35_40.pdf June 1998 plane crash near Bangor.]
* [http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/wea_info.pl?caCBGR See a weather station in Bangor.]
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