Mustang Flat
{{Short description|Diablo Range landform in California}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
Mustang Flat is a flat in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. It lies at an elevation of {{convert|1,329|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} south of the South Fork Orestimba Creek, north of Mustang Peak.{{GNIS|229388|Mustang Flat}}
History
Droves of wild horses were held at Mustang Flat and Paradise Flat and driven up along route of the Long Ridge Road to Mustang Peak to be joined to the droves of the Joaquin Murrieta gang's horses moving southward along La Vereda del Monte(now County Line Road) at Mustang Peak from Valle Atravesado or Valle Hondo.Frank F. Latta, JOAQUIN MURRIETA AND HIS HORSE GANGS, Bear State Books, Santa Cruz, California. 1980.{{rp|404,433}}
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