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Quincy is an unincorporated census-designated place and the county seat of Plumas County, California, set in the American Valley in the northern Sierra Nevada.

Quincy began as a Gold Rush community just outside Elizabethtown, which was founded in 1852; after 1858 the settlement shifted about a mile into American Valley and became Quincy.

Quincy was laid out by James H. Bradley, one of the organizers of Plumas County, who donated the land for the county seat and named the town after his ranch in Illinois — a name that traces back to President John Quincy Adams.

The Quincy post office opened in 1855, a year after Plumas County was created on March 18, 1854, from part of Butte County.

Although Quincy is the county seat, it is unincorporated — Portola is the only incorporated city in Plumas County.

The population of Quincy was 1,728 at the 2010 census and about 1,630 at the 2020 census; back in 2000 it had 858 households.

Quincy sits at 3,432 feet above sea level on Highway 70, so it gets snow in the winter.

Quincy is home to Feather River College, a community college established in 1968 whose 256-acre campus sits next to Plumas National Forest land; in 2020 it became only the third college in America designated as a Firewise college.

Quincy hosts the High Sierra Music Festival, held each July at the Plumas County Fairgrounds and the county's biggest annual event.

Local landmarks include the Plumas County Courthouse, the Plumas County Museum behind it on Jackson Street, and Gansner Park on Spanish Creek.