Shasta
Shasta is a town in Shasta County in the Shasta Cascades region of California. In the mid 19th century, Shasta was the commercial and shipping hub for northern California mines.- 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.
Spring Creek Dam
Power station
Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring… Spring Creek Dam is situated 2½ miles northeast of Shasta.
Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam
Dam
Whiskeytown Dam is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek… Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam is situated 2½ miles west of Shasta.
Keswick Dam
Dam
Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the… Keswick Dam is situated 2½ miles east of Shasta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keswick.
Keswick
Hamlet
Keswick is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States. Keswick 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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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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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