Felony Flats


Felony Flats is a derogatory nickname of areas in several cities in the Western United States historically perceived to have high crime rates. They are usually near a river or creek with corresponding flat area. In some Western cities, similar neighborhoods are known as skid row.
The similarly disparaging term "" was bestowed on many Western towns, including what later became Dunsmuir, California, Redding, California, Lee Vining, California, Grant, Idaho, Wolf Point, Montana, and Moab, Utah. A fictional Northern California mining town called Poverty Flat was depicted in the 1915 movie The Lily of Poverty Flat, based on the Bret Harte book of the same name, and shot near Santa Cruz, California.