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Welcome to Siskiyou County, California Genealogy Trails! We are a group of volunteers that help you track your ancestors through time with free genealogical transcribed data! Feel free to search our state and county data. Consider contributing and helping free genealogy grow.  We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be successful. If you are interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Nancy. * This County is available for adoption * We regret we are unable to perform personal research but will place data on this site as we come across it or as it is submitted. Don't want to host a site but still want to help? Check out our Transcription Team! If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists or follow us on Facebook! Visit our new blogspot!  Weed Hotel by Mt. Shasta ca.1950's ********************* Siskiyou County was created on March 22, 1852 from parts of Shasta and Klamath Counties, and named after the Siskiyou mountain range. Parts of the county's territory were given to Modoc County in 1855. The county is the site of the central section of the Siskiyou Trail, which ran between California's Central Valley and the Pacific Northwest. The Siskiyou Trail was based on Native American footpaths, was expanded by Hudson's Bay Company trappers in the 1830s, and was expanded still further by "Forty-Niners" during the California Gold Rush. In 1851, after the discovery of area. This era and setting was described in detail in the semi-autobiographical novel, Life Amongst the Modocs, written by poet and novelist Joaquin Miller. The construction of the Central Pacific railroad along the path of the Siskiyou Trail in the mid-1880s, led to a first wave of tourism, as visitors came to “take the waters” at the county’s many summer resorts, and to enjoy the hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation activities. The Southern Pacific railroad (successor to the Central Pacific) promoted the scenic beauty of the area by calling its rail line through the area “The Road of A Thousand Wonders.” In the early 1940s, Siskiyou County was home to the semi-serious State of Jefferson movement, which sought to create a new state from several counties of northern California, and several counties of southern Oregon. Mossbrae Falls, near Dunsmuir, California. The origin of the word siskiyou is not known. One version is that it is the Chinook Jargon word for "bob-tailed horse." Another version, given in an argument before the State Senate in 1852, is that the French name Six Cailloux, meaning "six stones," was given to a ford on the Umpqua River by Michel LaFrambois and a party of Hudson's Bay Company trappers in 1832, because six large stones or rocks lay in the river where they crossed. According to some, the Six Cailloux name was appropriated to this region by Stephen Meek, another Hudson's Bay Company trapper who was known for his "discovery" of Scott Valley, in regard to a crossing on the Klamath River near Hornbrook. Still others attribute the name to a local tribe of Native Americans..  TOWNS Etna - Fort Jones - Mount Shasta - Weed - Dunsmuir - Montague - Tulelake - Yreka (County Seat) McCloud Dorris - Grenada - Hornbrook - Greenview - Carrick - Macdoel - Gazelle - Mount Hebron - Edgewood Tennant - Big Springs - Callahan - Clear Creek - Forks of Salmon - Fort Goff - Hamburg - Happy Camp Hilt - Horse Creek - Klamath River - Lake Siskiyou - Lake Shastina - Mugginsville - Sawyers Bar - Seiad Valley Thompson Creek NEIGHBORING COUNTIES Del Norte Co., CA - Humboldt Co., CA - Jackson Co., OR - Josephine Co., OR Klamath Co., OR - Modoc Co., CA - Shasta Co., CA - Trinity Co., CA
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