40°02′19″N 121°36′58″W / 40.03861°N 121.61611°W
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Lomo Location in California Lomo Lomo (the United States) | |
Coordinates: 40°02′19″N 121°36′58″W / 40.03861°N 121.61611°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Butte County |
Elevation | 3,779 ft (1,152 m) |
Lomo (Spanish for 'Hill') is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies 4.5 miles (7.2 km) of Butte Meadows,[2] at an elevation of 3779 feet (1152 m).
A post office operated at Lomo from 1878 to 1881.[2] It was previously known as Wakefields Station,[2] for Henry Wakefield, who established a homestead on the site in 1864 and provided accommodations for teams and stages on the Humboldt Wagon Road.[3]
Lomo once had a lumber mill,[4] a school, and a hotel.[5] The hotel burned down in 1882 and again in 1885.[6] Today, Lomo is little more than an intersection, with "a few occupied dwellings" in the surrounding forest.[7]