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Alturas

Alturas is the only incorporated city in of which it is also the county seat. Located in the region of , the city had a population of 2,715 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Town with 2,920 residents
  • Description: city in California, United States
  • Also known as: “Alturas, CA”, “Alturas, California”, “Dorris Bridge”, and “Dorrisville”
  • Postal code: 96101

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alturas Municipal Airport and Niles Theater.

Aerodrome
, is a city-owned public-use located one nautical mile west of the central business district of Alturas, a city in , , .

Movie theater
Photo: Tom Hilton, CC BY 2.0.
is a movie theater.

Church
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The in Alturas, California is a historic church at 507 E. 4th Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Alturas

Latitude
41.4871° or 41° 29′ 14″ north
Longitude
-120.5423° or 120° 32′ 32″ west
Population
2,920
Elevation
4,370 feet (1,332 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ZIF
Open location code
84HXFFP5+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 147133496
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5558829
Wiki­data ID
Q446281
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Alturas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألتوراس”
  • Arabic: “التوراس، مودوك، كاليفورنيا”
  • Basque: “Alturas”
  • Bulgarian: “Алтурас (град, Калифорния)”
  • Bulgarian: “Алтурас”
  • Catalan: “Alturas (Califòrnia)”
  • Catalan: “Alturas”
  • Cebuano: “Alturas”
  • Chechen: “Альтурас”
  • Chinese: “Alturas, California”
  • Chinese: “Alturas”
  • Chinese: “阿尔图拉斯”
  • Chinese: “阿爾圖拉斯”
  • Croatian: “Alturas, Kalifornija”
  • Croatian: “Alturas”
  • Czech: “Alturas”
  • Danish: “Alturas”
  • Dutch: “Alturas (Californië)”
  • Dutch: “Alturas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “التوراس”
  • Esperanto: “Alturas”
  • Finnish: “Alturas”
  • French: “Alturas”
  • German: “Alturas”
  • Gilaki: “آلتۊراس”
  • Haitian: “Alturas, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Alturas”
  • Hebrew: “אלטורס”
  • Hungarian: “Alturas”
  • Irish: “Alturas”
  • Italian: “Alturas”
  • Japanese: “アルトゥラス”
  • Korean: “앨투러스”
  • Ladin: “Alturas”
  • Malagasy: “Alturas, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Alturas”
  • Malayalam: “അൽറ്റുറാസ്”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتوراس (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتوراس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alturas”
  • Newari: “अल्टौरस, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “अल्टौरस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alturas”
  • Norwegian: “Alturas”
  • Pampanga: “Alturas, California”
  • Pampanga: “Alturas”
  • Persian: “آلتوراس، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “آلتوراس”
  • Persian: “التوراس، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “التوراس”
  • Polish: “Alturas”
  • Portuguese: “Alturas”
  • Russian: “Альтурас”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alturas”
  • Serbian: “Alturas, California”
  • Serbian: “Алтурас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alturas, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alturas, Kalifornija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alturas”
  • Slovak: “Alturas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلتوراس، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Alturas (California)”
  • Spanish: “Alturas”
  • Swedish: “Alturas, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Alturas”
  • Tagalog: “Alturas, California”
  • Tagalog: “Alturas”
  • Talysh: “Alturas”
  • Tatar: “Альтурас”
  • Turkish: “Alturas, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Alturas”
  • Ukrainian: “Альтурас”
  • Urdu: “آلتوراس، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Alturas, California”
  • Uzbek: “Alturas”
  • Volapük: “Alturas (CA)”
  • Volapük: “Alturas (California)”
  • Volapük: “Alturas, CA”
  • Volapük: “Alturas, California”
  • Volapük: “Alturas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alturas, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alturas”

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