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Tobin is an unincorporated census-designated place deep in the Feather River Canyon in Plumas County, strung along State Route 70 and the North Fork of the Feather River at an elevation of 2,064 feet.

Tobin is best known for the Tobin Bridges, a pair of steel bridges - one carrying Highway 70 and one carrying the railroad - that cross the North Fork Feather River at the community, with the railroad bridge also passing over the highway.

Tobin's railroad bridge is part of Union Pacific's Feather River Route through the Sierra Nevada, the least steep mountain grade of any transcontinental railroad crossing.

The 2020 census counted only 19 people in Tobin, up from 12 in 2010, spread across 5.2 square miles of canyon - a population density of fewer than 4 people per square mile.

Tobin's 19 residents lived in just 11 households in 2020 and had a median age of 68.5 years, and unusually, 10 of the 11 occupied homes were rentals rather than owner-occupied.

In the 2000 census Tobin's per capita income was $2,584, one of the lowest figures recorded for any statistically measured place in the United States, although the tiny population makes the number unreliable.

Tobin is one of the wetter spots in the Sierra Nevada foothills, averaging about 67 inches of precipitation a year, nearly all of it falling during the winter months.