Stewartville
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.946, -121.849
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: It was a mining town for the nearby Central coal mine, with a population of nearly 300 residents at its height of activity in the 1870s.
History
Stewartville was an unincorporated place in eastern Contra Costa County, California, United States that is now a ghost town. It was located 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Mount Diablo, at an elevation of 558 feet. It was a mining town for the nearby Central coal mine, with a population of nearly 300 residents at its height of activity in the 1870s. It was one of five towns that comprised the Mount Diablo Coalfield, along with Nortonville, Somersville, Judsonville, and West Hartley.