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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 aarea. 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, CaliforniaThe 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..
(www.en.wikipedia.org)
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Incorporated Cities:
Etna
Fort Jones
Mount Shasta
Weed
Dunsmuir
Montague
Tulelake
Yreka (County Seat)
Unincorporated towns
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
Vital Records Resources
County Courthouse
P.O. Box 338
Yreka, CA 96097-0338
Phone: (530) 842-8081
Fax: (530) 842-8013
County Seat: Yreka
Year Organized: 1852
Square Miles: 6,287
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Cemetery Locations:
Bennett Cemetery
Dunsmuir Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery
Foulke Cemetery
Gazelle Cemetery
Gillems Graveyard
Henley-Hornbrook Cemetery
Horse Creek Cemetery
Julien Cemetery
Kanaka Cemetery
Lakeview Cemetery
Little Shasta Cemetery
McCloud Cemetery
Montague Cemetery
Mount Shasta Memorial Park
Picard Cemetery
Winema Cemetery
Library Locations:
National Archives - San Francisco
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066-2350
Dorris Branch Library
Dunsmuir Branch Library
Etna Branch Library
Fort Jones Branch Library
Happy Camp Branch Library
McCloud Branch Library
Montague Branch Library
Mount Shasta Branch Library
Siskiyou County Free Library Yreka
Tulelake Branch Library
Weed Branch Library
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