38°46′29″N 120°17′49″W / 38.77472°N 120.29694°W
Kyburz | |
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 The town as seen heading eastbound on US-50. The sign references a well-known joke about small towns. | |
 Kyburz along US-50 in a map of El Dorado County | |
  Kyburz Location in California | |
| Coordinates: 38°46′29″N 120°17′49″W / 38.77472°N 120.29694°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State | California |
| County | El Dorado |
| Elevation | 1,237 m (4,058 ft) |
| Population (2000)[2] | |
| • Total | 167 |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 95720 |
| Area code | 530 |
Kyburz (formerly, Slippery Ford and Slipperyford)[3] is a small unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. It is located along the South Fork of the American River and U.S. Route 50, and is surrounded by the Eldorado National Forest. Its elevation is 4058 feet (1237 m) above sea level.[1]
Settlement began a mile west at Webster’s Sugar Loaf House as a remount station for the pony express on April 3, 1860.[4] The route ran through where US 50 locally is today.[5] The Slippery Ford post office opened in 1861. The name was changed to Slipperyford in 1896, and to Kyburz in 1911, by its Postmaster Albert Kyburz, in memory of his father Samuel Kyburz, who was an early California pioneer with John Sutter.[6] The locale was along the Lincoln Highway Sierra Nevada Southern Route by 1916.
Ski racer Spider Sabich grew up in Kyburz, where his father, Vladimir Sr., was stationed with the California Highway Patrol. Spider and his younger brother Steve raced at the Edelweiss ski area, which closed in the 1960s, and is now known as Camp Sacramento.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kyburz, California
- ^ Relocation Now, General Population, retrieved 2008-02-19
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 509. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "CHL No. 706 Pony Express: Webster's Sugar Loaf House - El Dorado". CaliforniaHistoricalLandmarks.com. CaliforniaHistoricalLandmarks. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
the site of Webster's Sugar Loaf House, [a] well-known stopping place during the Comstock rush. Beginning in April 1860, it was used as a remount station of the Central Overland Pony Express, and in 1861 it became a horse change station for pioneer stage companies and the Overland Mail.
- ^ "Webster's Sugar Loaf House- Overland Pony Express Route in California (No. 706 California Historical Landmark)". Sierra Nevada Geotourism. National Geographic. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
The Pony Express Trail ran through the county approximately where Highway 50 is today, from April 3, 1860 to October 26, 1861.
- ^ "Cagenweb-com - californiagambling.info".