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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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”, and “Shasta, California”
- Postal code: 96087
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spring Creek Dam and Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam.
Spring Creek Dam
Power station
Spring Creek Debris Dam is an earthfill dam on Spring Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, in Shasta County in the U.S. state of California. Completed in 1963, the dam, maintained by the U.S. 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, a tributary of the Sacramento River of northern California in the United States. The dam is located about 6 miles west of Redding, and impounds Whiskeytown Lake on the southern flank of the Trinity Mountains. Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam is situated 2½ miles west of Shasta.
Keswick Dam
Dam
Photo: Bureau of Reclamation, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about 2 miles northwest of Redding, California. Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Central Valley Project, the dam is 157 feet high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir, which has a capacity of 23,800 acre⋅ft. 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. Keswick sits at an elevation of 732 feet. Its population is 188 as of the 2020 census, down from 451 from the 2010 census. Keswick is situated 2 miles northeast of Shasta.
Shasta
Latitude
40.5993° or 40° 35′ 58″ northLongitude
-122.492° or 122° 29′ 31″ westPopulation
1,770Elevation
1,047 feet (319 metres)United Nations Location Code
US 4SCOpen location code
84GVHGX5+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 141036502OpenStreetMap 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”
- Ladin: “Shasta”
- Luxembourgish: “Shasta”
- Malagasy: “Shasta, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Shasta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shasta”
- Norwegian: “Shasta”
- Persian: “شستا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “شستا”
- Polish: “Shasta”
- 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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