Shasta

Shasta is a town in in the region of . In the mid 19th century, Shasta was the commercial and shipping hub for northern California mines.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 1,770 residents
  • Description: town in Shasta County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Diggins”, “Reading Spring”, “Reading’s Diggings”, “Reading’s Springs”, “Readings Springs”, “Shasta City”, “Shasta, CA”, “Shasta, California”, and “شستا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Postal code: 96087

Places of Interest

Highlights: Spring Creek Dam and Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam.

Power station
Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring… is situated 2½ miles northeast of Shasta.

Dam
Whiskeytown Dam is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek… is situated 2½ miles west of Shasta.

Dam
Photo: Bureau of Reclamation, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a concrete gravity dam on the… is situated 2½ miles east of Shasta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Keswick.

Hamlet
is a census-designated place in , United States. is situated 2 miles northeast of Shasta.

Shasta

Latitude
40.5993° or 40° 35′ 58″ north
Longitude
-122.492° or 122° 29′ 31″ west
Population
1,770
Elevation
1,047 feet (319 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US 4SC
Open location code
84GVHGX5+P6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 141036502
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5571092
Wiki­data ID
Q3116391
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Shasta” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Shasta”
  • Cebuano: “Shasta”
  • Chechen: “Шаста”
  • Chinese: “沙斯塔”
  • Croatian: “Shasta”
  • Dutch: “Shasta”
  • French: “Shasta”
  • German: “Shasta”
  • Gilaki: “شاستا”
  • Irish: “Shasta”
  • Italian: “Shasta”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shasta”
  • Ladin: “Shasta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Shasta”
  • Malagasy: “Shasta, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Shasta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shasta”
  • Norwegian: “Shasta”
  • Persian: “شستا”
  • Polish: “Shasta”
  • Russian: “Шаста”
  • Serbian: “Шаста”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shasta, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shasta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شستا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Shasta”
  • Swedish: “Shasta, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Shasta”
  • Tatar: “Шаста”
  • Turkish: “Shasta”
  • Ukrainian: “Шаста”
  • Volapük: “Shasta”

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Localities in the Area

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