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Redding is a city in Northern California. It is the county seat of Shasta County, California, USA. Redding is the state's largest city north of Sacramento, as well as the northernmost designated metropolitan area and city with over 100,000 people in California. It is the fourth largest city in the Sacramento Valley and the northernmost in the Central Valley.
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Redding is nestled at the very northwestern end of the Central Valley, which transitions into the Cascade foothills. The city is surrounded by mountains to the north, east, and west; and fertile farm land to the south. Outermost parts of the city are actually part of the Cascade foothills, whereas southern and central areas are in the Sacramento Valley.
Elevation can vary greatly in different parts of Redding, because the city is extremely spread out. Downtown Redding is 495 feet on average, whereas anywhere to the north, east, or west of downtown ranges between 550-800 feet. Southern portions range between 400 and 500 feet . This is why outermost fringes have a better chance of snow in the winter than right in the central area.
The Shasta Dam on the Sacramento River provides a considerable level of flood protection for Redding.
Shasta Dam is a curved gravity concrete dam on the Sacramento River above Redding, California near Shasta Lake City built between 1938 and 1945. Like another curved gravity dam (Hoover Dam), it was a continuous pour concrete project, and in its day, ranked as one of the great civil engineering feats of the world. The dam is 602 ft high and 3,460 ft long, with a base width or thickness of 543 ft. The reservoir created behind Shasta Dam is known as Shasta Lake and is a popular recreational boating area.
California's Central Valley extends nearly 500 miles from the Sacramento River in the north to the San Joaquin River in the south. Development of the region by non-Native Americans began in earnest after gold was discovered in 1848, and can be characterized by three overlapping stages of agricultural progress. It began with cattle ranching, followed by dry farming of grain, and presently the specialized and heavily irrigated farming practices of today.
Situated along the Siskiyou Trail, an ancient trade and travel route connecting California's Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest, the site of Redding was occupied by Native Americans of the Wintu tribe from about the year 1000. During the early 1800s, Hudson's Bay Company trappers and members of the United States Exploring Expedition passed through the site of Redding, while traveling along the Siskiyou Trail.
The first non-native settler in the area was Pierson B. Reading, an early California pioneer. Reading was an admirer of John Sutter, and in 1844, Reading received a Mexican land grant for the area occupied by today's Redding and Cottonwood, California, along the Sacramento River. At the time it was the northernmost non-native settlement in California.
Later, when the Southern Pacific Railroad built its rail line through the Sacramento Valley, it decided that the cost of making a small westerly detour to reach the pre-existing mining town of Shasta was not in its interest. Instead the railroad routed the tracks through an area with the inauspicious name of Poverty Flats and what was to become the town of Redding was born. Named by the Southern Pacific for railroad man Benjamin B. Redding, the town was rechristened "Reading" in 1874, to honor local pioneer Pierson B. Reading. However, the railroad would not recognize the change, and the original name, Redding, was restored in 1880.
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Districts/Neighborhoods ; Buckeye Terrace, Redwood Estates, Downtown, Girvan,
Westwood Manor, Buckeye, Shasta View Gardens, Bonnyview, Enterprise, Churn Creek
Bottom , Oasis, Mt. Shasta Mall (Dana Dr/Hilltop), West Ridge, Mary Lake, Western
Ranches (a.k.a Greenbelt), Bluffs, Stanford Hills, Gold Hills, Miracle Mile, MLK,
Parkview, Kutras Tract, Garden Tract, College Highlands, Hacienda Heights, Quartz
Hill, Boulder Creek, Spring Hill, Tierra Oaks (Redding/Shasta Lake City), Lake
Redding Estates, Greenwood Heights, Ridgewood Estates, Sunset Terrace, Sunset
West, The Knolls, Country Heights
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