Plumas County
Plumas County is in the Shasta Cascades region of California. The forests, rivers and mountains of Plumas County were originally inhabited by Native Americans before miners arrived during the Gold Rush, followed soon after by loggers, and today tourists visit the county for its camping, fishing, whitewater, snowshoeing, and other outdoor opportunities.
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Plumas County
- Type: County with 19,800 residents
- Description: county in California, United States
- Also known as: “Comte de Plumas”, “Plumas”, “Plumas (condáu)”, “Plumas County California”, “Plumas County, CA”, “Plumas County, Calif.”, “Plumas County, California”, “Plumas County, Kaliforniya”, “Plumas ilçesi, CA”, “Plumas ilçesi, Calif.”, “Plumas ilçesi, Kaliforniya”, “مقاطعه بلوماس، كاليفورنيا”, and “プラマス・カウンティ”
- Neighbors: Butte County, Lassen County, Shasta County, Sierra County, Tehama County, and Yuba County
- Categories: county of California and locality
- Location: Shasta Cascades, California, United States, North America
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Latitude of center
39.9431° or 39° 56′ 35″ north
Longitude of center
-120.806° or 120° 48′ 21″ west
Population
19,800
Elevation
5,643 feet (1,720 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Plumas County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Plumas County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بلوماس”
- Armenian: “Փլումաս շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Plumas”
- Azerbaijani: “Plumas qraflığı”
- Basque: “Plumas konderria”
- Bavarian: “Plumas County, Kalifornien”
- Bavarian: “Plumas County”
- Bishnupriya: “প্লামাস কাউন্টি, ক্যালিফোর্নিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “প্লামাস কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Плумъс”
- Catalan: “comtat de Plumas”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Plumas”
- Cebuano: “Plumas County”
- Chechen: “Плумас”
- Chinese: “普卢默斯县”
- Chinese: “普盧默斯縣”
- Czech: “Plumas County”
- Danish: “Plumas County”
- Dutch: “Plumas County”
- Esperanto: “kantono Plumas”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Plumas”
- Finnish: “Plumasin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Plumas”
- French: “Comté de Plumas”
- Georgian: “პლუმასის ოლქი”
- German: “Plumas County”
- Gilaki: “پلوماس ٚ شأرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Πλούμας”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פלומאס”
- Hungarian: “Plumas megye”
- Icelandic: “Plumas-sýsla”
- Irish: “Contae Plumas, California”
- Irish: “Contae Plumas”
- Italian: “contea di Plumas”
- Italian: “Contea di Plumas”
- Japanese: “プラマス郡”
- Korean: “플루머군”
- Latin: “Plumas Comitatus”
- Limburgan: “Plumas County”
- Low German: “Plumas County”
- Marathi: “प्लुमास काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “پلوماس شهرستان (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “پلوماس شهرستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Plumas Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Plumas County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plumas County”
- Norwegian: “Plumas County”
- Pampanga: “Plumas County, California”
- Pampanga: “Plumas County”
- Persian: “شهرستان پلوماس، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شهرستان پلوماس”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Plumas”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Plumas”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Plumas, California”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Plumas”
- Russian: “Плумас”
- Sardinian: “contea de Plumas”
- Serbian: “Округ Плумас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plumas County, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Plumas County”
- Slovenian: “Plumas County”
- Spanish: “Condado de Plumas”
- Swedish: “Plumas County”
- Tagalog: “Kondado ng Plumas, California”
- Tagalog: “Plumas County”
- Tatar: “Плумас (округ, Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Плумас”
- Tumbuka: “Plumas County, California”
- Tumbuka: “Plumas County”
- Turkish: “Plumas County”
- Turkish: “Plumas ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Плумас”
- Urdu: “پلومس کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Venetian: “contea de Plumas”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Plumas, California”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Plumas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Plumas, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Plumas”
- Welsh: “Plumas County, Califfornia”
- Welsh: “Plumas County”
- Western Panjabi: “پلوماس کاؤنٹی”
- “Plumas”
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