Milton is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Calaveras County

Calaveras County, California

Calaveras County is a county located in the Gold Country of the U.S. state of California. Calaveras is the Spanish word for skulls; the county was reportedly named for the remains of Native Americans discovered by the Spanish explorer Captain Gabriel Moraga. As of the 2010 census, the county had a...

, California

California

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. It lies at an elevation of 394 feet (120 m) and is located at 38°01′55"N 120°51′08"W. The community is in ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 95684 and area code 209

Area code 209

209 is the North American telephone area code for California that covers Stockton, Modesto, Turlock, Merced, Winton, Atwater, Livingston, Manteca, Ripon, Tracy, Lodi, Sonora, Los Banos, San Andreas, Mariposa, and Yosemite, as well as the northern San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Foothills...

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Completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad

Southern Pacific Railroad

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 in 1871 marked the birth of the town of Milton. Named after Milton Latham, one of the railroad construction engineers, this town was the first in Calaveras County to have a railroad. Freight and passengers continued their journeys to other parts of Calaveras County by wagon and stagecoach

Stagecoach

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. The town was also the terminus of the Stockton and Copperopolis Railroad.

The town today is registered as California Historical Landmark

California Historical Landmark

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 #262.

A post office was established in 1871 and closed in 1942.

Politics

In the state legislature

California State Legislature

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 Milton is located in the 1st Senate

California State Senate

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 District, represented by Republican

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 Dave Cox

Dave Cox

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, and in the 25th Assembly

California State Assembly

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 District, represented by Republican Kristin Olsen

Kristin Olsen

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. Federally, Milton is located in California's 3rd congressional district

California's 3rd congressional district

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, which has a Cook PVI

Cook Partisan Voting Index

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 of R +7 and is represented by Republican Dan Lungren

Dan Lungren

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