Blue Canyon, California
Blue Canyon | |
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  Blue Canyon Location in California | |
| Coordinates: 39°15′26″N 120°42′40″W / 39.25722°N 120.71111°WCoordinates: 39°15′26″N 120°42′40″W / 39.25722°N 120.71111°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County | Placer County |
| Elevation | 4,695 ft (1,431 m) |
Blue Canyon (also, Blue Cañon) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California.[1] Blue Canyon is located 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Emigrant Gap.[2] It lies at an elevation of 4695 feet (1431 m).[1]
Blue Canyon was possibly named for the blue smoke of the camps when extensive lumbering occurred there in the 1850s. It might otherwise have been named after a miner from that same period named "Old Jim Blue".[3]
The Blue Canyon post office operated from 1867 to 1927. The Blue Cañon post office operated from 1936 to 1942 and from 1948 to 1964.[2]
Climate[]
Blue Canyon has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) according to the Köppen climate classification system. Summers are generally warm with cool nights, while winters are moderately cold and extremely snowy, despite no month having a low temperature more than a degree below freezing.
| hideClimate data for Blue Canyon (1940-2012) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 71 (22) |
73 (23) |
72 (22) |
82 (28) |
88 (31) |
92 (33) |
95 (35) |
97 (36) |
93 (34) |
88 (31) |
78 (26) |
75 (24) |
97 (36) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 44.1 (6.7) |
44.6 (7.0) |
46 (8) |
51.7 (10.9) |
60.4 (15.8) |
69 (21) |
77.3 (25.2) |
76.8 (24.9) |
72.1 (22.3) |
62.1 (16.7) |
50.4 (10.2) |
45.3 (7.4) |
58.3 (14.6) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 31.7 (−0.2) |
31.7 (−0.2) |
32.5 (0.3) |
36.4 (2.4) |
43.9 (6.6) |
51.8 (11.0) |
59.6 (15.3) |
58.8 (14.9) |
54.2 (12.3) |
46 (8) |
37.1 (2.8) |
32.9 (0.5) |
43 (6) |
| Record low °F (°C) | 5 (−15) |
6 (−14) |
9 (−13) |
17 (−8) |
21 (−6) |
28 (−2) |
36 (2) |
35 (2) |
27 (−3) |
17 (−8) |
13 (−11) |
3 (−16) |
3 (−16) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 12.16 (309) |
10.24 (260) |
9.22 (234) |
5.16 (131) |
3.25 (83) |
0.95 (24) |
0.21 (5.3) |
0.33 (8.4) |
0.89 (23) |
3.8 (97) |
8.89 (226) |
12.04 (306) |
67.13 (1,705) |
| Average snowfall inches (cm) | 48.1 (122) |
43.5 (110) |
49.8 (126) |
25 (64) |
7.5 (19) |
0.6 (1.5) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0.4 (1.0) |
2.7 (6.9) |
24 (61) |
38.8 (99) |
240.3 (610) |
| Average precipitation days | 12 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 91 |
| Source: WRCC[4] | |||||||||||||
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blue Canyon, California
- ^ Jump up to: a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 452. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ Gudde, Erwin G. (1998). California place names : the origin and etymology of current geographical names (4th ed., rev. and enl. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 39. ISBN 0520213165.
- ^ "BLUE CANYON AP, CA (040897)". Western Regional Climate Center. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
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