Bovine (Sometimes known as “Bovine Town”)

  • Established: 1869, by Central Pacific Railroad, during construction of original transcontinental railroad
  • Origin of Name: Named after Bovine Mountain, referring to region’s cattle industry, which used Bovine Town as its center of operations
  • Miles from San Francisco: 691.6
  • Used by Railroad: 1899- 1905
  • Railroad Function: Served as  railroad station; facilities included a section house  train car body, Chinese bunk and cook house and a water tank; southern Pacific, the successor to Central Pacific records show that section gangs built a freight platform and replaced some of the Chinese bunkhouses in 1885; probably abandoned when Lucin Cutoff was completed, though the siding was used for a time by local sheep ranchers
  • Location: Southwest of Terrace in northwest Box Elder County 6 miles west of Walden
  • No Population estimates for this isolated ghost town