Summit City

HISTORICAL POPULATED PLACE · CALIFORNIA

A historical populated place in Nevada County, California, recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System.

Location Record

Name: Summit City
Feature Type: Populated Place (historical)
State: California
County: Nevada County
USGS Map: English Mountain
Coordinates: 39.4087914, -120.5024305
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GNIS Feature ID: 1656341

Names and historical notes

Recorded by GNIS. Source wording is retained; these notes have not been independently verified by Forgotten America.

Also recorded as

Excelsior

Source editions and recorded citations

Feature ID 1656341. Description/History extract: August 28, 2026. All Names extract: September 30, 2026. Retrieved October 22, 2026. Only populated fields are displayed.

GNIS citation text may identify a source series rather than a specific page. It is reproduced below without implying that its underlying documents were inspected.

Map U.S. Geological Survey 1981-12-31 00:00:00 Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981) Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files.
Text Durham, David L. California’s Geographic Names 1998-12-31 00:00:00

GNIS source datasets and documentation

Source: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Historical Features.