Maine Prairie, California facts for kids
Maine Prairie is an unincorporated community located in Solano County, California east of Elmira, California on the Maine Prairie Slough at latitude 38.308 and longitude -121.759. The elevation is 7 feet (2.1 m). Maine Prairie appears on the Dozier U.S. Geological Survey Map.
During the American Civil War, it was a township large enough to support a California Militia Company (the Maine Prairie Rifles) from Sept. 19, 1863 to June 23, 1868. The township appears on an 1890 map of Solano County.
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