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Yreka
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county seat of Siskiyou County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Siskiyou
- Incorporated
- April 21, 1857
- Type
- Council–manager
- Total
- 10.06 sq mi (26.05 km )
- Land
- 9.98 sq mi (25.86 km )
- Water
- 0.073 sq mi (0.19 km ) 0.72%
- Elevation
- 2,589 ft (789 m)
- Density
- 753/sq mi (290.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Fips code
- 06-86944
- Website
- ci .yreka .ca .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Yreka (/waɪˈriːkə/ wy-REE-kə) is a city in and the county seat of Siskiyou County, California, United States, near the Shasta River and approximately 22 miles south of the state border with Oregon. The city has an area of about 10 square miles (26 km), most of it land. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,807 reflecting an 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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yreka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.