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Little Norway, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

38°49′29″N 120°02′12″W / 38.82472°N 120.03667°W / 38.82472; -120.03667

Populated place in California, United States

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Coordinates: 38°49′29″N 120°02′12″W / 38.82472°N 120.03667°W / 38.82472; -120.03667CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCountyEl Dorado CountyElevation

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7,326 ft (2,233 m)

Little Norway is a populated place in El Dorado County, California.^[1] It is located 14 kilometres (9 mi) west of Meyers,^[2] at an elevation of 2233m (7326 feet).^[1] The ZIP code is 95721.

History

A post office was established at Little Norway in 1961.^[2] The building was damaged by fire in 1967.^[3] Two other fires broke out, a 1988 arson and a 1991 fire which caused $200,000 in damage to the Little Norway resort.^[4]

Transport

Little Norway is situated on US Route 50 and was a Greyhound stop for cross country skiers.^[5]

Little Norway is also an endpoint of the Little Norway to Lower Echo Lake Trail^[6] managed by the United States Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.

Botany

A specimen of bullthistle or bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare), an invasive species native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa, was collected near here in or before 1984.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Norway, California
^ ^a ^b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 522. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ "Blaze guts Resort Units in El Dorado". April 25, 1967.
^ "Midnight fire ravages Little Norway resort". April 11, 1991.
^ "Many a slip between the bus and the lift, Phantom skier finds". February 1, 1982.
^ "Little Norway to Lower Echo Lake". AllTrails.com. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
^ Barron, Robin; Holst, Erik M. (March 2000). "Bullthistle (Cirsium vulgare)". Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment (PDF). Vol. II. United States Forest Service. pp. O-7, O-8.