Owenyo, California

Coordinates: 36°40′42″N 118°02′39″W / 36.67833°N 118.04417°W

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Owenyo
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 36°40′42″N 118°02′39″W / 36.67833°N 118.04417°W / 36.67833; -118.04417
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation ^[1]	3,697 ft (1,127 m)

Owenyo (formerly, New Owenyo) was an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.^[1] It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 5 miles (8 km) north of Lone Pine,^[2] at an elevation of 3697 feet (1127 m).^[1] The town was abandoned in the 1960s, and all that remain now are a few traces of building foundations. There are no standing structures and no inhabitants in or anywhere near Owenyo, which remains on 21st century maps only as a reference point along the bleak, unkept and itself abandoned Owenyo-Lone Pine Road which runs about two miles east of, and running parallel with, Federal Highway 395.

Owenyo's original townsite was half a mile (0.8 km) to the southeast on the Carson and Colorado Railroad.^[2] The town, whose name is a portmanteau of Owens and Inyo, was originally started by Quaker colonists in 1900.^[2] They sold out in 1905, when the Carson and Colorado Railroad arrived, establishing the town as a transfer point for freight to be carried by the narrow-gauge railway which began there, serving points southward.^[2] A post office operated at Owenyo from 1902 to 1905 and from 1916 to 1941.^[2] The town moved to its present location in 1910, and for a while was known as New Owenyo on that account.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Owenyo, California
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1192. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop	Inyo County map
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Charleston View Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells West Bishop Wilkerson
Unincorporated communities	Alabama Hills Aspendell Badwater Ballarat Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Indian Village Kearsarge Laws Millspaugh Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Poleta Rovana Ryan Stovepipe Wells Sandy Valley Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Bishop Paiute Reservation Fort Independence Reservation Lone Pine Reservation Timbisha Shoshone Reservation
Ghost towns	Bend City Beveridge Burnt Wagons Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Coso Echo Greenwater Gerstley Kearsarge Leadfield Lee Lila C Lookout City Manzanar Narka Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Reward Roachville San Carlos Schwaub Sodan Sunland Swansea White Mountain City
Other	Coso County, California
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