Located at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley, 160 miles from Sacramento City, and about 120 miles south of the Oregon state line, Shasta Lake City had a population of 9,008 as of the 2000 census. Redding, another city in Shasta County, had a population of 80,865 people in the same period, reaching 84,600 [...]
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The Central Valley Project developed in northern California during the 1930s is the background history of Lake Shasta, a reservoir created by building the curved gravity concrete Shasta Dam between 1938 and 1945. This reservoir was called Lake Shasta, featured as a recreational boating area. Shasta Dam is located on the Sacramento River, just above [...]
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