Shasta County

Shasta County, officially the County of Shasta, is a county in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the populace turned into 177,223. The county seat is Redding. Shasta County contains the Redding, California Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county occupies the northern reaches of the Sacramento Valley, with portions extending into the southern reaches of the Cascade Range. Points of interest in Shasta County include Shasta Lake, Lassen Peak, and the Sundial Bridge. Shasta County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.

Parts of the county's territory had been given to Siskiyou County in 1852, and to Tehama County in 1856. The county was named after Mount Shasta; the call is derived from the English equal for the Shasta people, the call of a Native American tribe that once lived inside the place, however they have been ethnically cleansed from the location inside the 1850's. The name of the tribe became spelled in various ways till the present version turned into used whilst the county turned into set up. Originally Mt. Shasta become inside the county, but it's miles now a part of Siskiyou County, to the north. Its 14,179-foot 4,322 m top is visible in the course of maximum of Shasta County.