California Treasure Records by County

Browse source-linked California treasure-history records by county, including lost mines, shipwrecks, buried caches, ghost towns, and artifact hotspots.

Amador County 1 record
Butler's Buried Cache
Butte County 1 record
The Dogtown Nugget Discovery Site
Calaveras County 2 records
Black Bart's Lost Gold Amalgam Cache, Morgan Mine & Carson Hill Nugget Site
Contra Costa County 1 record
Dr. John Marsh Pioneer Cache
Del Norte County 1 record
Wreck of the SS Brother Jonathan
El Dorado County 2 records
Volcanoville Chinese Gold Cache, Goose Egg Mine
Marin County 6 records
Wreck of the San Agustin, Wreck of the Samoa, Wreck of the Richfield, Site of New Albion at Drake's Cove
Mendocino County 1 record
Wreck of the Frolic
Mono County 2 records
The Lost Cement Mine, Joaquín Murieta's Bodie Hills Stash
Nevada County 2 records
Empire Mine State Historic Park, Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
Placer County 1 record
Yankee Jim's Hidden Gold
Plumas County 2 records
La Porte Placer District, Stoddard's Gold Lake Legend
San Luis Obispo County 1 record
SS Montebello Wreck
Santa Cruz County 1 record
SS Palo Alto Concrete Ship Wreck
Shasta County 2 records
Clear Creek Mormon Coin Cache, Waterfall Mine
Sierra County 3 records
Poker Flat Cache, Great Blue Lead at Forest City and Bald Mountain, Original Sixteen-to-One Mine
Sonoma County 1 record
SS Pomona Shipwreck
Tehama County 1 record
Peter Lassen Buried Treasure
Trinity County 4 records
The Lost Cabin Mine, The Deloma Cave Indian Cache, Hickory Gulch Pocket Strike, The New Blue Jay Mine
Tuolumne County 1 record
Columbia Placer District