Meyers, California
{{Short description|Unincorporated community in California, United States}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|name = Meyers, California
|settlement_type = Unincorporated community
Census-designated place
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|subdivision_name2 = El Dorado
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|area_total_sq_mi = 2.513
|area_land_sq_mi = 2.499
|area_water_sq_mi = 0.014
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|population_as_of = 2020
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|population_total = 2163
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|timezone = Pacific (PST)
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|elevation_ft = 6378
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|postal_code = 96150
|area_code = 530, 837
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|blank1_info_sec1 = 2804404{{cite GNIS|2804404|name=Meyers Census Designated Place}}
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Meyers (also Yanks, Yank's Station, and Tahoe Paradise) is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 50 in the northern Sierra Nevada. It is {{convert|6|mi|0}} south of South Lake Tahoe in the Lake Tahoe area and lies at an elevation of {{convert|6378|ft|m|abbr=off}}. Established in 1851, Meyers started out as a stagecoach stop, trading post and Pony Express station. The town is now registered as California Historical Landmark #708.{{cite ohp|708|Yank's Station|2012-10-07}} It serves as a popular stop on the way into and out of the Tahoe Basin for travelers on Highway 50 and Highway 89.
History
Martin Smith, the town founder, opened a trading post and inn on the Placerville-Carson Road in 1851. Eight years later, Ephraim "Yank" Clement and his wife Lydia purchased the station and outbuildings from Smith and George Douglas, who had run the station as a hostelry and stagecoach stop. The Clements enlarged the station into a three-story, fourteen-room way station which included a large stable and hay barn with large corrals across the road.{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/poex/hrs/hrs8b.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315010830/http://www.nps.gov/archive/poex/hrs/hrs8b.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 15, 2007 |title=DIVISION FIVE: STATIONS BETWEEN ROBERTS CREEK AND SACRAMENTO/SAN FRANCISCO, Yank's Station |publisher=Ormsby.org |access-date=23 March 2011}}
The station served as a Pony Express stop up until October 26, 1861. Upon completion of the wagon road over Kingsbury Grade, the Pony Express route continued from Mormon (Genoa) Station to Friday's Station and then along the south shore of Lake Tahoe, stopping at Yank's Station Toll House near Myers (original spelling) on U.S. 50. It then continued on to Strawberry Station. A USGS topographic map from 1891 shows Yanks near present-day Camp Richarson. Meyers was its own distinct locale.{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |author-link = United States Geological Survey |year = 1891 |title = Pyramid Peak Sheet |url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/Browse/CA/CA_Pyramid%20Peak_299563_1891_125000.jpg |format = JPEG |type = Topographic map |scale = 1:125,000 |location = Reston, VA |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date= July 17, 2018}}
With both a trading post and a hotel, the station also served as a stage stop. The toll house was pushed off its foundation by floodwaters and is now situated on blocks next to the Tahoe Paradise Museum. In 1873, George Henry Dudley Meyers purchased the property. The newly rebuilt station thrived for decades as a hotel and store. On November 25, 1938, the building was destroyed in the Meyers town fire.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
Earlier (in 1904), a post office opened south of the station.{{California's Geographic Names|522}} The post office closed in 1957, only to reopen in 1958. It was adjacent to the Lincoln Highway Sierra Nevada Southern Route by 1916, and was renamed Tahoe Paradise in 1962. By 1896, a railroad had been connected that ran up Lake Valley from a landing in Bijou.{{cite map |author = United States Geological Survey |author-link = United States Geological Survey |year = 1896 |title = Pyramid Peak Sheet |url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/Browse/CA/CA_Pyramid%20Peak_299565_1895_125000.jpg |format = JPEG |type = Topographic map |scale = 1:125,000 |location = Reston, VA |publisher = United States Geological Survey |access-date= July 17, 2018}}
On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in the community. She was confined for 18 years in Antioch, California, and was found alive in 2009 in Berkeley.
Climate
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|Jan high F = 41.8
|Feb high F = 42.7
|Mar high F = 46.7
|Apr high F = 52.5
|May high F = 61.4
|Jun high F = 71.3
|Jul high F = 79.7
|Aug high F = 79.2
|Sep high F = 72.8
|Oct high F = 61.5
|Nov high F = 49.8
|Dec high F = 41.7
|year high F =
|Jan low F = 17.5
|Feb low F = 18.5
|Mar low F = 22.9
|Apr low F = 26.8
|May low F = 32.5
|Jun low F = 37.4
|Jul low F = 41.9
|Aug low F = 40.5
|Sep low F = 34.9
|Oct low F = 28.6
|Nov low F = 22.5
|Dec low F = 17.0
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|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation inch = 7.13
|Feb precipitation inch = 6.87
|Mar precipitation inch = 6.51
|Apr precipitation inch = 3.32
|May precipitation inch = 2.49
|Jun precipitation inch = 0.90
|Jul precipitation inch = 0.29
|Aug precipitation inch = 0.37
|Sep precipitation inch = 0.56
|Oct precipitation inch = 2.40
|Nov precipitation inch = 3.59
|Dec precipitation inch = 7.81
|year precipitation inch=
|Jan snow inch = 43.5
|Feb snow inch = 40.3
|Mar snow inch = 37.7
|Apr snow inch = 23.4
|May snow inch = 4.0
|Jun snow inch = 0.1
|Jul snow inch = 0.0
|Aug snow inch = 0.0
|Sep snow inch = 0.1
|Oct snow inch = 0.9
|Nov snow inch = 24.3
|Dec snow inch = 37.1
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Demographics
{{US Census population
|2020= 2163
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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decade|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=}}
1850–1870{{Cite web|title= 1870 Census of Population - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties - California - Almeda County to Sutter County |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1870/population/1870a-12.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}{{Cite web|title= 1870 Census of Population - Population of Civil Divisions less than Counties - California - Tehama County to Yuba County |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1870/population/1870a-13.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1880-1890{{Cite web|title= 1890 Census of Population - Population of California by Minor Civil Divisions |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1890/bulletins/demographics/134-population-of-ca.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1900{{Cite web|title= 1900 Census of Population - Population of California by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/bulletins/demographic/10-population-ca.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1910{{Cite web|title= 1910 Census of Population - Supplement for California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-ca.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1920{{Cite web|title= 1920 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1920/bulletins/demographics/population-ca-number-of-inhabitants.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1930{{Cite web|title= 1930 Census of Population - Number and Distribution of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1930/population-volume-1/03815512v1ch03.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1940{{Cite web|title= 1940 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch03.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1950{{Cite web|title= 1950 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-1/vol-01-08.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1960{{Cite web|title= 1960 Census of Population - General population Characteristics - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/vol-01-06-d.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1970{{Cite web|title= 1970 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1970a_ca1-01.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1980{{Cite web|title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_caAB-01.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1990{{Cite web|title= 1990 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/cen1990/cph2/cph-2-6.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
2000{{Cite web|title= 2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-6.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 2010{{Cite web|title= 2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - California |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-6.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
2020
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Meyers first appeared as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. Census{{Cite web|title=2020 Geography Changes|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-and-geography-changes/2020/geography-changes.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=}}
=2020 Census=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Meyers CDP, California – Racial and ethnic composition !Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) !Pop 2020{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Meyers CDP, California|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0647206|publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=}} !% 2020 |
| White alone (NH)
|1,742 |80.54% |
| Black or African American alone (NH)
|14 |0.65% |
| Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|4 |0.18% |
| Asian alone (NH)
|29 |1.34% |
| Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0 |0.00% |
| Other race alone (NH)
|16 |0.74% |
| Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|120 |5.55% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|238 |11.00% |
| Total
|2,163 |100.00% |
Amenities
Meyers has one grocery store, Holiday Market, a hardware shop and lumber yard, Meeks, and multiple other restaurants and shops. There is a California Highway Patrol station near the south end, along with an insect inspection station and a post office. The nearest major city center is {{convert|5|mi|0}} to the north along U.S. Highway 50 at an intersection that is known locally as "The Y" in South Lake Tahoe proper.
Climbing
Meyers is located 20 minutes from Lovers Leap campground and climbing area. Meyers also has its own local climbing areas, including the Pie Shop on Sawmill Road.{{Cite news|url=https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/sports/lake-tahoe-ascends-as-rock-climbing-destination/|title=Rock climbing locations around Lake Tahoe for all skill levels {{!}} TahoeDailyTribune.com|access-date=2017-08-12|language=en}} Pie Shop houses a bouldering area right off the road and a sport and trade climbing area up a short hike.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pyramidpeakproperties.com/local-area-guide.asp?cat=924|title=Rock Climbing in the Lake Tahoe Basin|website=www.pyramidpeakproperties.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-12|archive-date=August 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812214949/http://www.pyramidpeakproperties.com/local-area-guide.asp?cat=924|url-status=dead}}
Notes
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{{El Dorado County, California}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in California
Category:Unincorporated communities in El Dorado County, California
Category:Unincorporated communities in the Sacramento metropolitan area
Category:California Historical Landmarks
Category:South Lake Tahoe, California