Furnace, California

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Furnace
Unincorporated community
Furnace Location in California
Coordinates: 36°11′28″N 116°39′51″W / 36.19111°N 116.66417°W / 36.19111; -116.66417^[1]
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation ^[1]	4,760 ft (1,451 m)

Furnace is a former settlement in Inyo County, California.^[2] It was located 6.5 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Funeral Peak, in the Funeral Mountains.^[2]

Patrick Clark founded the Furnace Creek Copper Company at the place in Death Valley.^[2] Furnace was a boomtown by 1905, but deserted by 1907.^[2] The Furnace post office operated from 1907 to 1908.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Furnace (historical
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1165. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop	Inyo County map
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Charleston View Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells West Bishop Wilkerson
Unincorporated communities	Alabama Hills Aspendell Badwater Ballarat Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Indian Village Kearsarge Laws Millspaugh Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Poleta Rovana Ryan Stovepipe Wells Sandy Valley Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Bishop Paiute Reservation Fort Independence Reservation Lone Pine Reservation Timbisha Shoshone Reservation
Ghost towns	Bend City Beveridge Burnt Wagons Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Coso Echo Greenwater Gerstley Kearsarge Leadfield Lee Lila C Lookout City Manzanar Narka Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Reward Roachville San Carlos Schwaub Sodan Sunland Swansea White Mountain City
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