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Shasta Lake started out as five small communities named Central Valley, Toyon, Project City, Pine Grove, and Summit City, all of which came about with the beginning of construction of Shasta Dam in 1938.
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Shasta and Lake
Next, the green glob entered Shasta Lake, California ’ s largest reservoir.
It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.
For example, using what became known as the Siskiyou Trail, Hudson's Bay Company trappers were the first non-natives to explore the southern Cascades in the 1820s and 1830s, establishing trails which passed near Crater Lake, Mount McLoughlin, Medicine Lake Volcano, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak.
Among the tourist attractions in Shasta County are Shasta Lake, Lassen Peak, and the Sundial Bridge.
* Shasta Lake City
It is a very seasonal town with many Shasta Lake services, including a small grocery store, Subway restaurant inside the Shell gas station, and low-cost lodging for Shasta Lake visitors.
The City of Shasta Lake ( prior to incorporation it was known as Central Valley or CV ) is a city in Shasta County, California, United States.
It is the closest settlement to Lake Shasta and the Shasta Dam, which are popular tourist destinations.
Shasta Lake is located at ( 40. 678167 ,-122. 370003 ).
The 2010 United States Census reported that Shasta Lake had a population of 10, 164.
The racial makeup of Shasta Lake was 8, 749 ( 86. 1 %) White, 67 ( 0. 7 %) African American, 389 ( 3. 8 %) Native American, 233 ( 2. 3 %) Asian, 13 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 201 ( 2. 0 %) from other races, and 512 ( 5. 0 %) from two or more races.
There are five schools located within the city: Grand Oaks Elementary School ( K-6 ), Shasta Lake School ( K-8 ), Central Valley High School ( 9-12 ) and Mountain Lakes High School ( 10-12 ).
In the state legislature Shasta Lake is located in the 4th Senate District, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Jim Nielsen.
Federally, Shasta Lake is located in California's 2nd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 13 and is represented by Republican Wally Herger.
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Shasta and started
Construction of Shasta Dam, the main dam on the Sacramento, started in 1938 and was completed in 1945.
Shasta and out
On August 14, 2004, the entire town of French Gulch was evacuated due to a forest fire which roared out of control through much of Shasta County.
Mount Shasta to the east forces moisture out of the air as it rises and cools, and the dip in the Klamath Mountains allows more moisture to reach inland, so Mount Shasta receives more precipitation than the semiarid region to the north.
It also receives some water from snow runoff at Mount Shasta-which flows out of lava tubes as springs and feeds east-side Shasta River tributaries such as Big Springs Creek.
Shasta and five
Cottonwood is one of five CDPs in Shasta County that have expressed interest in incorporating.
Shingletown is one of five CDPs in Shasta County interested in incorporation.
The groundbreaking and official naming ceremony of Shasta Dam occurred on September 12, 1937 in the small town of Kennett shortly upstream of the dam, which would be flooded under the rising waters of the lake fewer than five years later.
The lower 30 mi ( 50 km ) of the river forms the longest of the five arms of Lake Shasta, which is formed by Shasta Dam on the Sacramento downstream from the original confluence.
Shasta and small
The Shasta Valley is covered with small hillocks extending from the base of Mt.
The Okwanuchu were one of a number of small Shastan-speaking tribes of Native Americans in Northern California, who were closely related to the adjacent larger Shasta tribe.
Shasta and communities
Category: Unincorporated communities in Shasta County, California
The workers at Shasta Dam built these communities because land was cheap and most families needed a low cost home while working on the dam.
These languages are spoken by Native American communities around and east of Mount Shasta, others near Lake Tahoe, the Pomo on the California coast, and the Yuman peoples along the lower Colorado River.
Category: Unincorporated communities in Shasta County, California
The Shasta people were originally located in the greater Shasta Valley area of Siskiyou County near such modern communities as Yreka, California.
Shasta and named
There are seven named glaciers on Mount Shasta, with the four largest ( Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, and Wintun ) radiating down from high on the main summit cone to below primarily on the north and east sides.
The county was named after Mount Shasta ; the name " Shasta " is derived from the English equivalent for the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area.
Siskiyou County was created on March 22, 1852, from parts of Shasta and Klamath Counties, and named after the Siskiyou mountain range.
The Matsya Purana mentions the ferocious eleven Rudras – named Kapali, Pingala, Bhima, Virupaksa, Vilohita, Ajesha, Shasana, Shasta, Shambhu, Chanda and Dhruva – aiding the god Vishnu in his fight against the demons.
( See Streetcars in Washington, D. C .) According to local tradition, surveyors from the Pacific Northwest named the town, giving the streets names such as " Shasta " and " Cascade ".
Whipplea appears to have been first recorded in 1853 by the Scottish botanical explorer John Jeffrey in the Umpqua Valley near Mount Shasta, California, and named for Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple ( 1817-1863 ), American surveyor and engineer.
* The Lake Shasta Caverns were formerly named Baird Cave.
* Shasta County, California, named for the mountain
A Rottweiler named Shasta survived after either following or being carried over the edge by its owner, who died.
Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.
University of Houston's colors are scarlet red and albino white, and the mascot is a cougar named Shasta.
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