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Kentucky Flat is a former settlement in Nevada County, California. Dating to 1850, it was first mined by settlers from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Several valuable quartz leads were discovered in the area, and the diggings were worked with significant profit.^[1] In that year, it was considered to be a settlement of some importance.^[2] The Kentucky Flat Schoolhouse might be the "oldest continuously used one-room schoolhouse in California".^[3]

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^ Sargent, Aaron Augustus (1856). Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory ...: For the Year Commencing ... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County (Public domain ed.). Printed at the Town Talk Office. pp. 13–.
^ Bean, Edwin F (1867). Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps ... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources (Public domain ed.). Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office. pp. 353–.
^ "Kentucky Flat School reopens for 'the little ones'". The Union. July 22, 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

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[Sargent1856-1] Sargent, Aaron Augustus (1856). Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory ...: For the Year Commencing ... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County (Public domain ed.). Printed at the Town Talk Office. pp. 13–.

[Bean1867-2] Bean, Edwin F (1867). Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps ... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources (Public domain ed.). Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office. pp. 353–.

[theunion.com2011-3] "Kentucky Flat School reopens for 'the little ones'". The Union. July 22, 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

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-'''Kentucky Flat''' is a former settlement in [[Nevada County, California]], United States. It dates to 1850, and was first mined by settlers from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Kentucky]]. Several valuable quartz leads were discovered in the area, and the diggings were worked with significant profit.<ref name="Sargent1856">{{cite book|last=Sargent|first=Aaron Augustus|title=Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory ...: For the Year Commencing ... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92VNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13|edition=Public domain|year=1856|publisher=Printed at the Town Talk Office|pages=13–}}</ref> In that year it was considered to be a settlement of importance, crowded with miners, along with Rich Flat, Randolph Flat, Texas Flat, Newtown, Bridgeport, Indian Flat, Anthony House, Gass Flat, and Lander's Bar.<ref name="Bean1867">{{cite book|last=Bean|first=Edwin F|title=Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps ... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA353|edition=Public domain|year=1867|publisher=Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office|pages=353–}}</ref> The Kentucky Flat Schoolhouse might be the "oldest continuously used one-room schoolhouse in California".<ref name=theunion.com2011>{{cite news|title=Kentucky Flat School reopens for 'the little ones'|url=http://www.theunion.com/article/20110722/BREAKINGNEWS/110729935|accessdate=5 July 2014|publisher=The Union|date=July 22, 2011}}</ref>
+'''Kentucky Flat''' is a former settlement in [[Nevada County, California]]. Dating to 1850, it was first mined by settlers from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Kentucky]]. Several valuable [[quartz]] leads were discovered in the area, and the [[diggings]] were worked with significant profit.<ref name="Sargent1856">{{cite book|last=Sargent|first=Aaron Augustus|title=Brown & Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory ...: For the Year Commencing ... Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, with an Historical Sketch of Nevada County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92VNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13|edition=Public domain|year=1856|publisher=Printed at the Town Talk Office|pages=13–}}</ref> In that year, it was considered to be a settlement of some importance.<ref name="Bean1867">{{cite book|last=Bean|first=Edwin F|title=Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps ... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA353|edition=Public domain|year=1867|publisher=Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office|pages=353–}}</ref> The Kentucky Flat Schoolhouse might be the "oldest continuously used one-room schoolhouse in [[California]]".<ref name=theunion.com2011>{{cite news|title=Kentucky Flat School reopens for 'the little ones'|url=http://www.theunion.com/article/20110722/BREAKINGNEWS/110729935|access-date=5 July 2014|publisher=The Union|date=July 22, 2011|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714130140/http://www.theunion.com/article/20110722/BREAKINGNEWS/110729935|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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-*{{Source-attribution|E. F. Bean's " Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the Various Towns and Mining Camps ... Also, Full Statistics of Mining and All Other Industrial Resources" (1867)}}
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v t e Municipalities and communities of Nevada County, California, United States
County seat: Nevada City
Cities and towns	Grass Valley Nevada City Truckee	Nevada County map
CDPs	Alta Sierra Floriston Graniteville Kingvale‡ Lake of the Pines Lake Wildwood North San Juan Penn Valley Rough and Ready Soda Springs Washington
Unincorporated communities	Cedar Ridge Chicago Park French Corral Gaston Gold Flat Higgins Corner Hills Flat Hirschdale Lake City Mooney Flat Norden North Bloomfield North Columbia Peardale Polaris Relief Willow Valley Wolf You Bet
Ghost towns	Alpha Badger Hill Baltimore Town Birchville Blue Tent Boca Boston Ravine Brass Wire Bar Bridgeport Camp Spaulding Chalk Bluff Cherokee Coyoteville Democrat French Lake Glenbrook Gold Hill Hobart Mills Hunt's Hill Island Indian Springs Kentucky Flat Little York Maybert Meadow Lake Moores Flat Newtown Omega Orleans Flat Red Dog Remington Hill Rose's Corral Sebastopol Shands Snow Point Snow Tent Spenceville Sweetland Town Talk Tsekankan Union Hill Ustoma Waloupa Wokodot Woolsey Flat Yamako
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