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