Siskiyou County, California
Siskiyou County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion.
Image: Shasta from south
Image: West Miner Street in Yreka, CA
Image: Indian Tom Lake, California
Image: Captain jacks stronghold, lava beds
Yreka is the county seat of Siskiyou County, California, United States, near the Shasta River; the city has an area of about 10 square miles (26 km2), most of it land. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 7,807, reflecting a meager increase from 7,765 counted in the 2010 Census. Yreka is home to the College of the Siskiyous, Klamath National Forest Interpretive Museum and the Siskiyou County Museum.
Downtown Yreka in 2011
West Miner Street in Yreka
The Yreka Phlox (Phlox hirsuta) is the city's official flower.
Yreka's Carnegie Library, designed by W. H. Weeks, is currently used as the city's police department.