Stump Ranch Marker

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Near Chester in Plumas County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

Stump Ranch

By Barry Swackhamer, June 1, 2012

1. Stump Ranch Marker

Inscription. Stump Ranch, a stage stop on the Red Bluff – Susanville Wagon Road, was also the road’s caretaker. It may have changed hands in an 1890’s poker game. The name arose after 1880’s logging left a field of stumps. So it could be recorded as swamp land in 1869, surveyors worked from a horse drawn wooden boat. J.C. Tyler, the road’s agent, charged tolls: $1 for a horseman, $10 per 8 horse hitch, 16¢ per head of cattle and 10¢ for sheep and hogs. The road and ranch have seen many a cowboy, pioneer, Indian, logger, gold prospector, outlaw, drover, and Civil War vet heading for California.

Erected 1999 by E Clampus Vitus, Las Plumas del Oro Chapter No. 8, Vigilante Outpost No. 1911.

Marker series. This marker is included in the E Clampus Vitus marker series.

Location. 40° 21.837′ N, 121° 22.62′ W. Marker is near Chester, California, in Plumas County. Marker is on Section Old Red Bluff Road (County Route 311). Click for map. This markers is 4 miles up Section Old Red Bluff Road (Plumas County Road 311), and 2 miles beyond the end of the paved road at Domingo Springs, from the intersection with Warner Valley Road. Marker is in this post office area: Chester CA 96020, United States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are

By Barry Swackhamer, June 1, 2012

2. Stump Ranch Marker

within 9 miles of this marker, as the crow flies. 1848 – Lassen Trail – 1849 (approx. 7.3 miles away); Dave Stratford 1945 – 2001 (approx. 8.5 miles away); "Dinky" (approx. 8.6 miles away); Char's Beauty Salon (approx. 8.7 miles away); Olde Towne Corner Store (approx. 8.7 miles away); Chester Library (approx. 8.7 miles away); Mt. Lassen Club (approx. 8.7 miles away); In Memory of the Lumberjack (approx. 8.7 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Chester.

By Barry Swackhamer, June 1, 2012

3. Stump Ranch Marker

Domingo Springs Photo, Click for full size

By Barry Swackhamer, June 1, 2012

4. Domingo Springs

By Barry Swackhamer, June 1, 2012

5. Domingo Springs

Credits. This page originally submitted on June 24, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California. This page has been viewed 189 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on June 24, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California. • Syd Whittle was the editor who published this page.