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Coleville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mono County, in the Antelope Valley on the West Walker River.

Coleville's first post office was established in 1868, and the community is named for Cornelius Cole, a United States senator from California.

It is one of the three northernmost communities in Mono County, on U.S. Route 395 about 26 miles northwest of Bridgeport, the county seat.

Coleville sits at an elevation of about 5,141 feet, and its census-designated place covers a sprawling 19.3 square miles of high desert valley.

The 2020 census counted 419 residents in Coleville, down from 495 in 2010 — a density of only about 22 people per square mile.

Coleville is unusually young for a rural community: its median age in 2020 was 29.3 years, and nearly 47 percent of its 150 households had children under 18 living in them.

Renters dominate Coleville's housing — in 2020 about 76 percent of its occupied homes were renter-occupied and only 24 percent were owner-occupied.

Coleville High School is so isolated from other California schools that it competes in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, along with four other similarly isolated California schools.

Coleville is the hometown of General John Abizaid and the birthplace of trick shooter Lillian Smith.

On June 1, 2007, the Larson Fire threatened Coleville, burning 1,100 acres and causing about $3 million in damage.