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Website. Official website. Redding is the county seat of Shasta County, California, and the economic and cultural capital of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California. Redding lies along the Sacramento River, 162 miles (261 km) north of Sacramento, and 120 miles (190 km) south of California's northern border with Oregon.
Fawn Fire. Location of fire near Redding and Shasta Lake. The Fawn Fire was a destructive wildfire in Shasta County, California, near Redding, in September–October 2021. Caused by a suspected act of arson on September 22, the fire began in mountains to the northeast of Redding and was driven by high winds the following day south and west into ...
2. Richard "Dick" Dickerson (July 7, 1937 – September 29, 2014) was an American politician and law enforcement officer. [1] Dickerson was a native of Colorado who, following his discharge from the United States Army, settled in Southern California to begin a thirty-year career in law enforcement. In 1986, Dickerson was sent to Redding by the ...
The headwaters of Cottonwood Creek originates as North, Middle, and South Forks and numerous smaller tributaries along the north-western rim of the Sacramento Valley. The North Fork rises near the 6,122-foot (1,866 m) Shasta Bally, a peak in the southern Klamath Mountains. It flows southwest, through a small reservoir, Rainbow Lake.
416,585,000 KWh (2001–2012) [1] Keswick Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sacramento River about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Redding, California. Part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 's Central Valley Project, the dam is 157 feet (48 m) high and impounds the Keswick Reservoir, which has a capacity of 23,800 acre⋅ft (29,400,000 m 3).
Anderson is a city in Shasta County, California, approximately 10 miles south of Redding. Its population is 11,323 as of the 2020 census, up from 9,932 from the 2010 census. Located 138 miles north of Sacramento, the city's roots are as a railroad town near the northern tip of the Central Valley of California.
274,224,000 KWh [5] Whiskeytown Dam (officially Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam) [6] is an earthfill dam on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River of northern California in the United States. President Kennedy speaks at the dam's dedication on September 28, 1963. The dam is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Redding, and impounds ...
Reading's Bar is a historical site in Redding, California in Shasta County.Reading's Bar is a California Historical Landmark No. 32 listed on August 1, 1932. Reading's Bar was named after Major Pierson Barton Reading, who discovered gold on the Clear Creek bar in May 1848, starting a California Gold Rush in the surrounding area.