Dobbins

History

The town was settled in 1849, and named for William M. and Mark D. Dobbins, early settlers. Dobbins was not a mining town originally, but a farm area. There were stage station stops, for teamsters' and their wagons, at what was known as Scott Ranch (three miles below Dobbins- Marysville Rd). Dobbins served as a stage stop until the coming of the automobiles. The first post office was established in 1851 under the name Dobbins Ranche, which was closed in 1854. The post office returned in 1887 and has operated continuously since then.

Geography

Dobbins lies northeast of Marysville, at an elevation of , in the foothills of the western Sierra Nevada Mountain Range off California Highway 20 and Marysville Road. Dobbins is north of Oregon House and south of Bullards Bar Dam. Dobbins has one post office, one general store, three churches, a Grange Hall, one grade school, one charter school, and Lake Francis Resort. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 7.8 square miles (20.3 km), of which 99.08% is land and 0.92% is water.

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