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Portola
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city in Plumas County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Plumas
- Incorporated
- May 16, 1946
- Total
- 5.41 sq mi (14.00 km )
- Land
- 5.41 sq mi (14.00 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0%
- Elevation
- 4,860 ft (1,480 m)
- Density
- 390/sq mi (150/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific (PST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (PDT)
- Zip codes
- 96122, 96129
- Fips code
- 06-58352
- Gnis feature ids
- 1659425 , 2411473
- Website
- www .ci .portola .ca .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Portola
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Plumas County
- Population
- 2100
- Area
- 14.00347
- Elevation
- 1480
- Official website
- www.ci.portola.ca.us
- Image
- A Strange Steam Engine in Portola - 2 Photos (26733443444).jpg
- Households
- 814
- Dialing code
- 530
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- Commons category
- Portola, California
- inception
- 1946-05-16
- water as percent of area
- 0
- P8168
- Sieben Steinhäuser
- water area
- 0
- per capita income
- 27126
- postal code
- 96122
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Encyclopedic overview
Portola (/pɔːrˈtoʊlə/ por-TOH-lə) is the only incorporated city in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 2,100 at the 2020 census, down from 2,104 at the 2010 census. Portola is located on the Middle Fork of the Feather River and was named after Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá, although he did not explore this area.
Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad (now Union Pacific Railroad) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada. The city is also home to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum (formerly Portola Railroad Museum), one of the largest railroad museums in the Western United States. The museum is famous for its Run A Locomotive program, where the public can participate in a "fantasy experience" program allowing them to run a railroad locomotive on the museum grounds. The railroad tradition also extends to a yearly local event called “Railroad Days”.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Portola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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