Yreka, California Yreka, California City of Yreka Statue at entrance to Yreka Historic District Statue at entrance to Yreka Historic District Location in Siskiyou County and the state of California Location in Siskiyou County and the state of California Yreka, California is positioned in the US Yreka, California - Yreka, California Yreka (/wa ri k / wy-ree-k ) is the governmental center of county of Siskiyou County, California, United States, positioned in the Shasta Valley at 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level and covering about 10.1 sq mi (26 km2) area, of which most is land.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 7,765, reflecting an increase of 475 from the 7,290 counted in the 2000 Census.
Yreka is home to the College of the Siskiyous, Klamath National Forest Interpretive Museum and the Siskiyou County Museum.
Several name shifts occurred until the little town/city was called Yreka.
Harte had appeared in California in the [eighteen-]fifties, twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and had wandered up into the surface diggings of the camp at Yreka, a place which had acquired its mysterious name when in its first days it much needed a name through an accident.
A stranger read it wrong end first, YREKA, and supposed that that was the name of the camp.
Poet Joaquin Miller described Yreka amid 1853 1854 as a bustling place with "...
In November 1941, Yreka was designated as the capital of the proposed State of Jefferson, a secession boss along the Oregon and California border. There have been two documented lynchings in the town of Yreka.
The evening of Daw's funeral a dozen cars from Dunsmuir, carrying approximately 50 masked men, drove north to Yreka to lynch Johnson.
On August 3, 1935 at 1:30am, the vigilante mob reached the Yreka jail and lightly knocked on the door.
He was driven nine miles east of Yreka where he was released, barefoot.
The Yreka Phlox (Phlox hirsuta) is the city's official flower.
Yreka is positioned at approximately 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level in the Shasta Valley, south of the Siskiyou Mountains and north of Mount Shasta, a 14,000 ft (4,300 m) dormant volcano which towers over the valley.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.1 sq mi (26 km2), of which 10.0 square miles (26 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.72%) is water.
The official town/city flower of Yreka is the Yreka phlox (Phlox hirsuta). The only known specimen of Calochortus monanthus, the single-flowered mariposa lily, was collected near Yreka along the banks of the Shasta River by botanist Edward Lee Greene, in June 1876. According to the Koppen climate classification system, Yreka qualifies as having a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa), but almost qualifies as having a warm-summer Mediterrean climate (Csb).
Climate data for Yreka, California (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.0 1.2 .5 .2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .8 1.8 6.7 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Yreka had a populace of 7,765.
The ethnic makeup of Yreka was 6,495 (83.6%) White, 57 (0.7%) African American, 491 (6.3%) Native American, 94 (1.2%) Asian, 9 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 168 (2.2%) from other competitions, and 451 (5.8%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 1,871 citizens (24.1%) under the age of 18, 678 citizens (8.7%) aged 18 to 24, 1,603 citizens (20.6%) aged 25 to 44, 2,119 citizens (27.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,494 citizens (19.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
3,895 citizens (50.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3,823 citizens (49.2%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out, with 25.5% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
West Miner Street in Yreka, CA.JPG West Miner Street in Yreka Yreka's Carnegie Library, designed by W.
Tourists visit Yreka because it is positioned at the northern edge of the Shasta Cascade region of northern California.
The core of the historic downtown, along West Miner Street, is listed as an historic precinct on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as a California Historical Landmark.
Yreka is home to the Siskiyou County Museum, and to a number of Gold Rush-era monuments and parks.
In addition, because it is the governmental center of county of Siskiyou County, a number of businesses related to the County courts, County Recorder, and other official county functions are positioned in the city.
Butte Valley National Grassland s positioned in northern Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border but is administered from Yreka offices. In the state council Yreka is in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Ted Gaines, and the 1st Assembly District, represented by Republican Brian Dahle. Federally, Yreka is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug La - Malfa. Yreka is home to a branch ground of the College of the Siskiyous which hosts the Rural Health Science Institute and Administration of Justice programs.
In Yreka, the gold-mining era is memorialized with a gold exhibition, as well as with a remnant of a silver quarrying operation in Greenhorn Park.
The Yreka Union High School District sports mascot is a gold miner.
Yreka High School was the first high school in the county, established in 1894.
The Yreka elementary school precinct is composed of Evergreen Elementary as well as the Jackson Street Middle School.
The town/city and county are served by a daily newspaper, the Siskiyou Daily News, as well as 13 FM and one AM station.
Yreka Community Television Channel 4 (commonly known as YCTV 4) is a small public-educational-and-government-access cable TV run by the town/city of Yreka. Interstate 5 is the major north-south route through Yreka, connecting Redding and Sacramento to the south, and the Oregon border to the north.
Interstate 5 through the town/city follows the former path of the Siskiyou Trail, which stretched from California's Central Valley to Oregon's Willamette Valley. California State Route 3 runs east to Montague, and west to Fort Jones and Weaverville.
California State Route 263 serves as a company loop of Interstate 5 through the northern part of the city.
Charles Earl Bowles aka Black Bart robbed a number of stagecoaches on the trails dominant to or from Yreka in the 1880s. Leander Clark, an Iowa state legislator and Union Army officer, prospected for gold in the Yreka area, returning home to the east coast via the isthmus of Panama in 1852, $3,000 to $4,000 richer. Mc - Manus was a sutler killed in the Yreka region while hauling mail. Richie Myers, baseball player, was a resident of Yreka when he died there. John Otto was the first park custodian at Colorado National Monument, and had been a key promote for its creation and its later inclusion in the National Park System spent his final 20 years on his quarrying claim near Yreka and was buried in a pauper's grave. Elijah Steele, an early Northern California pioneer, state legislator, and Indian agent who tried to prevent the Modoc War, lived in Yreka when he was Superior Court Judge for Siskiyou County from 1879 to 1883. "Yreka Bakery" is a palindrome.
The loss of the "B" in a bakery sign read from the reverse is mentioned as a possible origin of the name Yreka in Mark Twain's autobiography. The initial Yreka Bakery was established in 1856 by baker Frederick Deng. The palindrome was recognized early on: "spell Yreka Bakery backwards and you will know where to get a good loaf of bread" is quoted as an ad in the Yreka Semi-Weekly Journal May 23, 1863 and states that twelve loaves sold for $1. The Yreka Bakery moved eventually to its long-time location, 322 West Miner Street, where it remained under a several ownerships until it closed in 1965 on retirement of the baker "Martin", and clerk Alta Hudson. Another Yreka Bakery reopened in a different locale in 1974, but is no longer in business. Author Martin Gardner mentioned that Yreka Bakery was in company on West Miner Street in Yreka,:246 but it was pointed out by readers "the Yreka Bakery no longer existed.
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