Editing Yreka, California

{{Short description|City in California, United States}}
{{Distinguish|Eureka, California}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
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'''Yreka''' ({{IPAc-en|w|aɪ|ˈ|r|iː|k|ə}} {{respell|wy|REE|kə}}) is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Siskiyou County, California]], United States, near the [[Shasta River]]; the city has an area of about {{convert|10|mi2}}, most of it land. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the population was 7,807, reflecting an increase from 7,765 counted in the [[2010 United States census|2010 census]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explore Census Data |url=https://data.census.gov/all?q=yreka |access-date=February 9, 2023 |website=data.census.gov}}</ref> Yreka is home to the [[College of the Siskiyous]], Klamath National Forest Interpretive Museum and the Siskiyou County Museum.

==History==
In March 1851, Abraham Thompson, a [[Mule train (transport)|mule train]] packer, discovered gold near Rocky Gulch while traveling along the [[Siskiyou Trail]] from southern Oregon. By April 1851, 2,000 miners had arrived in "Thompson's Dry Diggings" to test their luck, and by June 1851, a [[gold rush]] "[[boomtown]]" of tents, shanties, and a few rough cabins had sprung up. Several name changes occurred until the city was called Yreka. The name comes from {{lang|sht|wáik'a}}, a word meaning "north mountain" or "white mountain",<ref name="YCOC">{{cite web  | title =The Boomtown That Didn't Go Bust - A History of Early Yreka  | publisher =Yreka Chamber of Commerce  | url =http://www.yrekachamber.com/history.html  | access-date =June 4, 2007 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070808140108/http://www.yrekachamber.com/history.html  | archive-date =August 8, 2007 | url-status =dead  }}</ref><ref name="SCL">{{cite web  | title =A short history of the cities in Siskiyou County and a directory to their current addresses and telephone numbers  | publisher =Siskiyou County Library  | year =2013  | url =http://www.snowcrest.net/siskiyoulibrary/cities.html   | access-date =July 6, 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131012131222/http://www.snowcrest.net/siskiyoulibrary/cities.html  | archive-date =October 12, 2013 | url-status =dead  }}</ref> the name of nearby [[Mount Shasta]] in the [[Shasta language]].<ref name="Bright2004">{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William Bright|title=Native American placenames of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XfxzCm1qa4C&pg=PA582|access-date=April 11, 2011|year=2004|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=978-0-8061-3598-4|page=582}}</ref>

[[Mark Twain]] tells a different story:
{{blockquote|[Twain's mentor Bret] [[Bret Harte|Harte]] had arrived in California in the [eighteen-]fifties, twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and had wandered up into the surface diggings of the camp at Yreka, a place which had acquired its mysterious name – when in its first days it much needed a name – through an accident. There was a bakeshop with a canvas sign which had not yet been put up but had been painted and stretched to dry in such a way that the word BAKERY, all but the B, showed through and was reversed. A stranger read it wrong end first, YREKA, and supposed that that was the name of the camp. The campers were satisfied with it and adopted it.<ref name="MT">{{cite book  | title =Autobiography of Mark Twain  | publisher =Harper/Perennial Literary  | date =1990  | location =New York  | page = 162  | title-link =Autobiography of Mark Twain  }}</ref>}}

In 1853–54, poet [[Joaquin Miller]] described Yreka as a bustling place with "a tide of people up and down and across other streets, as strong as if a city on the East Coast".<ref name="SHO">{{cite web
  | title =Siskiyou History 1850–1874  | publisher =Siskiyou History Organization  | year = 2013  | url =http://www.siskiyouhistory.org/1850.html  | access-date = July 6, 2013 }}</ref> Incorporation proceedings were completed on April 21, 1857.<ref name="SHO" />

===Lynchings===
There have been two documented lynchings in Yreka. The first took place on August 26, 1895, when four men—William Null, Garland Stemler, Luis Moreno, and Lawrence Johnson—awaiting trial for various charges of murder and robbery,<ref name =CCJ >{{cite web | title = The corpse of Clyde Johnson. August 3, 1935. Yreka, California | publisher = Without Sanctuary lynching photos and history | url = http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html | access-date = May 5, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090326133205/http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html | archive-date = March 26, 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref> were simultaneously hanged by a lynch mob from a railroad tie suspended from two adjacent trees.<ref name="ClelandEast2007">{{cite book|author1=Karen Cleland|author2=Donald Y. East|title=Yreka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jky83npt0mQC&pg=PA7|access-date=August 6, 2013|date=May 1, 2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4735-0|pages=7–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
  | last =Kulczyk  | first =David  | title =Four Lynchings in One Day – Yreka, California – August 26, 1895    | date =October 15, 2012 | url =http://www.dkulczyk.com/2012/10/15/four-lynchings-in-one-day-yreka-california-august-26-1895/  | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121026004531/http://www.dkulczyk.com/2012/10/15/four-lynchings-in-one-day-yreka-california-august-26-1895/  | url-status =usurped  | archive-date =October 26, 2012  | access-date = July 6, 2013 }}</ref>

The second lynching occurred on July 28, 1935. Clyde Johnson and Robert Miller Barr robbed a local business and its patrons in [[Castella, California]].<ref name="Kulczyk2007">{{cite book|author=David Kulczyk|title=California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SoEEAQAAIAAJ|access-date= July 16, 2013|date=August 1, 2007|publisher=Word Dancer Press|isbn=978-1-884995-54-5}}</ref> They then stole a car from a patron and drove north to [[Dunsmuir, California]], where they planned to abandon the car and make a getaway by train. Soon after they abandoned the car north of Dunsmuir, they were stopped by California Highway Patrolman George "Molly" Malone and Dunsmuir honorary Chief of Police, 38-year-old Frank R. "Jack" Daw. Johnson pulled out a [[Luger pistol]] and wounded both policemen. Malone recovered, but Daw died the next day.<ref name = "CPO">[http://camemorial.org/1901-1950/daw.php Chief Frank R. Daw Dunsmuir Police Department] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130717084652/http://camemorial.org/1901-1950/daw.php |date=July 17, 2013 }}, California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation, accessed July 16, 2013</ref> Johnson was caught a few hours later by a dragnet and taken into custody. Barr, who was holding the $35 that they obtained from the robbery, panicked during the shootout and ran off into the woods, then escaped on a freight train. Daw was a beloved figure in Dunsmuir. His title of Chief of Police was given to him because of his cool head and experience as a World War I veteran. The night of Daw's funeral a dozen cars from Dunsmuir, carrying approximately 50 masked men, drove north to Yreka to lynch Johnson. On August 3, 1935, at 1:30&nbsp;a.m., the vigilante mob reached the Yreka jail and lightly knocked on the door. Deputy Marin Lange, the only guard on duty at the jail, opened the door slightly and was quickly overtaken. He was driven nine miles east of Yreka where he was released, barefoot. The mob searched the jail, found Johnson, drove him away in one of the cars and hanged him from a pine tree.<ref name = "Bee">[http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/583316 "California Mob Lynches Police Slayer"], ''Omaha Bee-News'', August 3, 1936, pp. 1–2.</ref><ref name="Allen2000">{{cite book|author=James Allen|title=Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5z8Ohz4lOEEC|year=2000|publisher=Twin Palms|isbn=978-0-944092-69-9}} See also [http://withoutsanctuary.org/pics_01_text.html information on a photo of the lynching of Clyde Johnson] on the book's website, ''Without Sanctuary''.<!-- unfortunately not possible to give a better link due to the site making incompetent use of iframes --></ref> Barr was arrested over a year later, on September 4, 1936, in Los Angeles on a burglary charge.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19360905&id=1fIzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7-4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=6022,676467 "Nab suspect as slayer of police chief: Man long sought in Dunsmuir Crime in L.A. Jail"], ''Lodi News-Sentinel'', September 5, 1936, page 1, accessed July 16, 2013</ref> During his time on the run, he secured a part as an extra in the [[Nelson Eddy]]/[[Jeanette MacDonald]] film ''[[Rose Marie (1936 film)|Rose Marie]]'', scenes of which were filmed near [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is credited in the film under his real name.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19360916&id=rhZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fOMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4337,108789 "Hunted Bandit Busy in Movie"]. ''Spokesman-Review''. September 16, 1936. Associated Press. Spokane, Washington. p. 9.</ref>

=== Yreka rebellion ===
{{Main|Jefferson (proposed Pacific state)}}
On November 27, 1941, a group of young men gained national media attention when, brandishing hunting rifles for dramatic effect, they stopped traffic on [[U.S. Route 99 (California)|U.S. Route 99]] south of Yreka, and handed out copies of a Proclamation of Independence, stating that the State of Jefferson was in "patriotic rebellion against the States of California and Oregon" and would continue to "secede every Thursday until further notice."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.mtshastanews.com/article/20081211/NEWS/312119971/0/SEARCH |title=State of Jefferson dreams were dashed by Pearl Harbor |last=D'Souza |first=Tony |date=December 11, 2008 |work=Mount Shasta Herald |access-date=February 21, 2015 |archive-date=July 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210715121315/https://www.mtshastanews.com/article/20081211/NEWS/312119971/0/SEARCH |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The secession movement ended quickly, though not before Del Norte County District Attorney John Leon Childs of Crescent City was inaugurated as governor of the State of Jefferson on December 4, 1941.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/A-modest-proposal-downsize-California-2574603.php | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | first=Tim | last=Holt | title=A modest proposal – downsize California! | date=June 24, 2011 |access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref>

The first blow was the death of Mayor Gable on December 2, followed by the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] on December 7. Those in favor of secession focused their efforts on the war effort, which crippled the movement.

==Geography==
[[File:Phloxhirsuta.jpg|thumb|The Yreka Phlox (''Phlox hirsuta'') is the city's official flower.]]
Yreka is approximately {{convert|2500|ft|m|-1}} above sea level in the [[Shasta Valley]], south of the [[Siskiyou Mountains]] and north of [[Mount Shasta]], a {{convert|14000|ft|m|-2|abbr=on}} dormant volcano that towers over the valley.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has an area of {{convert|10.1|sqmi|km2|abbr=on}}, of which {{convert|10.0|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}} (0.72%) is water.

===Natural history===
The official city flower of Yreka is the Yreka phlox (''[[Phlox hirsuta]]'').<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/homepage/x244359558/Council-names-Yreka-Phlox-city-flower|title=Council names Yreka Phlox city flower|first=David|last=Smith|date=September 11, 2009|journal=Siskiyou Daily News|access-date=September 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091105180934/http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/homepage/x244359558/Council-names-Yreka-Phlox-city-flower|archive-date=November 5, 2009|url-status=dead}}.</ref>

The only known specimen of [[Calochortus monanthus]], the single-flowered mariposa lily, was collected near Yreka along the banks of the [[Shasta River]], by botanist [[Edward Lee Greene]], in June 1876.<ref>[http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8349,8461,8490 Treatment from the Jepson Manual 1993], University of California Press, 1993, Regents of the University of California, accessed August 7, 2013</ref>

===Nearby settlements===
Nearby places include:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Yreka,+CA/@41.7354186,-122.6344708,12.49z/data=!4m4!4m3!1m2!1m1!1s0x54ce1423d0d23a83:0xc4bb4066332c405d|title=Google Maps: Directions from Yreka, California|publisher=[[Google, Inc.]]|access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref>
*[[Montague, California|Montague]]: {{convert|6.4|mi|km}} east
*[[Grenada, California|Grenada]]: {{convert|11.5|mi|km}} southeast
*[[Fort Jones, California|Fort Jones]]: {{convert|17.2|mi|km}} southwest
*[[Klamath River, California|Klamath River]]: {{convert|24.3|mi|km}} northwest
*[[Hornbrook, California|Hornbrook]]: {{convert|15.1|mi|km}} north

== Climate ==
[[File:Monthly Climate Normals (1991-2020) - YREKA, CA.svg|thumb|Climate chart for Yreka]]
According to the [[Köppen climate classification]] system, Yreka qualifies as having a [[hot-summer Mediterranean climate]] (''Csa''), but almost qualifies as having a [[Mediterranean climate|warm-summer Mediterranean climate]] (''Csb''). The area features hot, dry summers and cool winters with regular snowfall. There is a high degree of [[diurnal temperature variation]], especially in the summer.

The annual average temperature of Yreka is {{Convert|53.5|F}}, July is the hottest month with {{Convert|74.2|F}}, and December is the coldest month with {{Convert|36.0|F}}. The average annual precipitation is {{Convert|18.92|in}}, and the precipitation in winter (December–February) accounts for almost 48% of the whole year. The annual snowfall is {{Convert|11.6|in}}, which is basically concentrated from November to February of the next year.

The annual extreme temperature ranged from {{Convert|-11|F}} on January 20, 1937, January 22, 1937, February 2, 1950, and December 9, 1972, to {{Convert|112|F}} on July 16, 1925, July 17, 1925, and July 27, 1939; the record cold daily maximum is {{convert|11|°F|0}}, set on January 22, 1962, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is {{convert|80|°F|0}} on July 22 and 23, 1915.<ref name = NOAA />  There are 66.6 days each year with the highest temperature over {{Convert|90|F}}, 11.4 days with the highest temperature over {{Convert|100|F}}, and 142.2 days with the lowest temperature below {{Convert|32|F}}.
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|Aug avg record high F = 102.1
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|Feb high F = 51.7
|Mar high F = 58.1
|Apr high F = 64.3
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|Mar mean F = 45.2
|Apr mean F = 50.4
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|Jun mean F = 65.8
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|May low F = 43.4
|Jun low F = 48.6
|Jul low F = 55.4
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|Oct low F = 37.7
|Nov low F = 31.2
|Dec low F = 27.1
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|Feb avg record low F = 18.2
|Mar avg record low F = 21.5
|Apr avg record low F = 24.2
|May avg record low F = 29.4
|Jun avg record low F = 35.7
|Jul avg record low F = 43.4
|Aug avg record low F = 43.1
|Sep avg record low F = 35.2
|Oct avg record low F = 26.0
|Nov avg record low F = 19.0
|Dec avg record low F = 14.0
|year avg record low F = 10.6
|Jan record low F = −11
|Feb record low F = −11
|Mar record low F = 12
|Apr record low F = 17
|May record low F = 20
|Jun record low F = 26
|Jul record low F = 34
|Aug record low F = 33
|Sep record low F = 20
|Oct record low F = 7
|Nov record low F = 1
|Dec record low F = −11
|year record low F= 
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|Jan precipitation inch = 3.28
|Feb precipitation inch = 2.17
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|Apr precipitation inch = 1.30
|May precipitation inch = 1.32
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|Sep precipitation inch = 0.41
|Oct precipitation inch = 1.14
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|Dec precipitation inch = 3.71
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|Sep precipitation days = 2.0
|Oct precipitation days = 5.0
|Nov precipitation days = 10.6
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|Jul snow inch = 0.0
|Aug snow inch = 0.0
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|Oct snow inch = 0.0
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|Feb snow days = 1.7
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|Apr snow days = 0.2
|May snow days = 0.4
|Jun snow days = 0.0
|Jul snow days = 0.0
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.0
|Oct snow days = 0.0
|Nov snow days = 0.8
|Dec snow days = 1.6
|year snow days = 6.6
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}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1860= 1327
|1870= 1063
|1880= 1059
|1890= 1100
|1900= 1254
|1910= 1134
|1920= 1277
|1930= 2126
|1940= 2485
|1950= 3227
|1960= 4759
|1970= 5394
|1980= 5916
|1990= 6948
|2000= 7290
|2010= 7765
|2020= 7807
|estyear=2024
|estimate=7686
|estref=<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/yrekacitycalifornia/BZA110222|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts}}</ref>
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===2020===
The [[2020 United States census]] reported that Yreka had a population of 7,807. The population density was {{convert|781.9|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of Yreka was 72.3% [[White Americans|White]], 0.9% [[African Americans|African American]], 9.0% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 1.9% [[Asian Americans|Asian]], 0.1% [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]], 3.3% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 12.5% from two or more races. [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] of any race were 12.3% of the population.<ref name=DP1>{{cite web |title=Yreka city, California; DP1: Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics - 2020 Census of Population and Housing |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDP2020.DP1?g=1600000US0686944 |website=US Census Bureau |access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref>

The census reported that 97.9% of the population lived in households, 0.9% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 1.2% were institutionalized.<ref name=DP1/>

There were 3,368 households, out of which 27.3% included children under the age of 18, 35.3% were married-couple households, 8.5% were [[cohabitation|cohabiting]] couple households, 36.3% had a female householder with no partner present, and 19.9% had a male householder with no partner present. 36.8% of households were one person, and 19.5% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.27.<ref name=DP1/> There were 1,881 [[family (U.S. Census)|families]] (55.8% of all households).<ref>{{cite web |title=Yreka city, California; P16: Household Type - 2020 Census of Population and Housing |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDHC2020.P16?g=1600000US0686944 |website=US Census Bureau |access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref>

The age distribution was 22.9% under the age of 18, 7.2% aged 18 to 24, 23.3% aged 25 to 44, 23.9% aged 45 to 64, and 22.7% who were 65{{nbsp}}years of age or older. The median age was 41.1{{nbsp}}years. For every 100 females, there were 89.9 males.<ref name=DP1/>

There were 3,668 housing units at an average density of {{convert|367.4|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|units&nbsp;|units|}}, of which 3,368 (91.8%) were occupied. Of these, 50.8% were owner-occupied, and 49.2% were occupied by renters.<ref name=DP1/>

===2023 estimates===
In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that 1.7% of the population were foreign-born. Of all people aged 5 or older, 92.4% spoke only English at home, 6.5% spoke [[Spanish language|Spanish]], 0.7% spoke other [[Indo-European languages]], 0.2% spoke Asian or Pacific Islander languages, and 0.3% spoke other languages. Of those aged 25 or older, 89.0% were high school graduates and 19.4% had a bachelor's degree.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yreka city, California; CP02: Comparative Social Characteristics in the United States - 2023 ACS 5-Year Estimates Comparison Profiles |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSCP5Y2023.CP02?g=1600000US0686944 |website=US Census Bureau |access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref>

The median household income was $42,664, and the [[per capita income]] was $29,389. About 17.4% of families and 22.0% of the population were below the poverty line.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yreka city, California; DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics - 2023 ACS 5-Year Estimates Comparison Profiles |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2023.DP03?g=1600000US0686944 |website=US Census Bureau |access-date=May 15, 2025}}</ref>

==Economy==
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[[File:Carnegie Library Yreka.jpg|thumb|left|Yreka's [[Carnegie Library]], designed by [[W. H. Weeks]], is currently used as the city's police department.<ref>[http://www.carnegie-libraries.org/california/yreka.html Yreka, Siskiyou County North Central/Northeast area, Shasta Cascade region] Carnegie Libraries, 2009, accessed August 7, 2013</ref>]]
Tourists visit Yreka because it is at the northern edge of the [[Shasta Cascade]] area of [[northern California]]. The core of the historic downtown, along West Miner Street, is listed as a historic district on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], as well as a [[California Historical Landmark]]. Yreka is home to the Siskiyou County Museum<ref name=SiskMuseum>[http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/museum/ Siskiyou County Museum website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118153142/http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/museum/ |date=January 18, 2008 }} accessed February 21, 2008.</ref> and a number of Gold Rush-era monuments and parks. Visitors also come to enjoy trout fishing in the nearby [[Klamath River|Klamath]],<ref name="siskiyouFish">{{cite web  | title =Fishing  | work =Visit Siskiyou County  | publisher =VisitSiskiyou.org  | year =2013  | url =http://visitsiskiyou.org/what-to-do/recreation/water-fun/fishing/  | access-date = July 6, 2013 }}</ref> [[Sacramento River|Sacramento]]<ref name = "100best">{{cite book | last = Ross | first = John | title = Trout Unlimited's Guide to America's 100 Best Trout Streams, Updated and Revised | publisher = The Lyons Press | location = Guilford, CT | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-1-59228-585-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/troutunlimitedsg0000ross_p0l1 }}</ref><ref name = flyfishing>{{cite book | last = Brooks | first = Wade | title = Fly fishing and the meaning of life | publisher = Voyageur Press | year = 2006 | location = St. Paul, MN | isbn = 978-0-7603-2575-9 | page = 92 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=xa2Wah_PmOIC }}</ref> and [[McCloud River|McCloud]]<ref name = "siskiyouFish" /><ref name = "100best" /> Rivers, or to see and climb [[Mount Shasta]], [[Castle Crags State Park|Castle Crags]] or the [[Trinity Alps]]. Visitors also ski (both alpine and cross-country), or bike or hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Falls of the McCloud River, [[Burney Falls]], [[Mossbrae Falls]], [[Lake Siskiyou]], [[Castle Lake (California)|Castle Lake]] and [[Shasta Lake]].

The town hosts Gold Rush Days every year in June.

In addition, because it is the county seat of Siskiyou County, a number of businesses related to the [[Siskiyou County Superior Court|county courts]], county recorder, and other official county functions are in the city. [[Butte Valley National Grassland]] is in northern Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border, but is administered from Yreka offices.<ref name=Klamath>{{cite web |title=Butte Valley National Grassland |publisher=U.S. Forest Service |url=http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5110481.pdf |access-date=December 8, 2012 |archive-date=April 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430060916/https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5110481.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=wildernet>{{cite web |title=Butte Valley National Grassland |publisher=Wdilernet |url=http://areas.wildernet.com/pages/area.cfm?areaID=050512&CU_ID=1 |access-date=December 8, 2012}}</ref>

==Government==
In the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]] Yreka is in {{Representative|casd|1|fmt=sdistrict}},<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://senate.ca.gov/senators |title=Senators |access-date=March 10, 2013 |publisher=State of California}}</ref> and {{Representative|caad|1|fmt=adistrict}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers |title=Members Assembly |access-date=March 2, 2013 |publisher=State of California}}</ref>

Federally, Yreka is in {{Representative|cacd|1|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|1|access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>

==Education==
Yreka is home to a branch campus of the College of the Siskiyous<ref name="COSS">{{cite web
  | title =College of the Siskiyous webpage  | publisher =College of the Siskiyous  | year =2013  | url =http://www.siskiyous.edu  | access-date = July 6, 2013 }}</ref> which hosts the Rural Health Science Institute<ref name="RHSI">{{cite web   | title =Rural Health Science Institute   | publisher =College of the Siskiyous   | year =2013   | url =http://www.siskiyous.edu/ruralhealth/   | access-date =July 6, 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131122141257/http://www.siskiyous.edu/ruralhealth/   | archive-date =November 22, 2013 | url-status =dead   }}</ref> and Administration of Justice programs. The college is one of 10 California community colleges to offer on-campus housing.<ref name="COSL">{{cite web
  | title =Lodging  | publisher =College of the Siskiyous   | year =2014  | url =http://www.siskiyous.edu/lodges/
  | access-date = July 6, 2013 }}</ref> High-school buses carry students from towns that would not otherwise be able to fund a secondary education.

In Yreka, the gold-mining era is commemorated with a gold museum, as well as with a remnant of a silver mining operation in Greenhorn Park. The Yreka Union High School District sports mascot is a gold miner. School colors are red and gold. Yreka High School was the first high school in the county, founded in 1894. It has 11 feeder districts that serve the approximately {{convert|1200|sqmi|km2}} county area.<ref>[http://www.yrekausd.net/ Yreka Union School District]</ref>

The Yreka elementary school district is composed of Evergreen Elementary as well as the Jackson Street Middle School.

==Local media==
* [[KSYC-AM]] 1490 [[Jefferson Public Radio]], Yreka (silent as of 2022)
* [[KSYC-FM]] 103.9 [[Jefferson Public Radio]], Yreka
* [[KZRO-FM]] 100.1 Mount Shasta
* [[KKLC]] 107.9 [[K-LOVE]], Fall River Mills
* ''[[Siskiyou Daily News]]''
* [[Northland Communications|Vyve Broadband]]
* [[Yreka Community Television|YCTV 4 Yreka Community Television]]/[[Siskiyou Media Council]]<ref>[http://www.siskiyoumediacouncil.org/public-access/yctv-4/ Live Stream] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014215429/http://www.siskiyoumediacouncil.org/public-access/yctv-4/ |date=October 14, 2013 }}, Siskiyou Media Council, accessed August 7, 2013</ref>

==Infrastructure==

===Transportation===
[[Interstate 5 in California|Interstate 5]] is the primary north–south route through Yreka, connecting [[Redding, California|Redding]] and [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] to the south and the [[Oregon]] border to the north. Interstate 5 through the city follows the former path of the [[Siskiyou Trail]], which stretched from California's [[California Central Valley|Central Valley]] to Oregon's [[Willamette Valley]].<ref name="Dillon1975">{{cite book|author=Richard H. Dillon|title=Siskiyou Trail: the Hudson's Bay Company route to California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_wXAAAAYAAJ|access-date=August 7, 2013|year=1975|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-016980-7}}</ref>

[[California State Route 3]] runs east to [[Montague, California|Montague]], and west to [[Fort Jones, California|Fort Jones]] and [[Weaverville, California|Weaverville]]. [[California State Route 263]] serves as a business loop of Interstate 5 through the northern part of the city.

[[General aviation]] uses the [[Montague Airport (California)|Montague Airport]] in [[Montague, California|Montague]], {{convert|6|mi|km}} to the east.

== Public Transportation ==
[[Siskiyou transit]] (STAGE), Route 1 – Cascade Flyer (Express), services Yreka 3 times daily going thru [[Mount Shasta, California|Mt Shasta]] and [[Dunsmuir, California|Dunsmuir]].

==Notable people==
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*[[Jodi Arias]] dropped out of high school in Yreka<ref>Curry, Colleen, [https://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-stand-murder-case-jurors/story?id=18314807 Jodi Arias Must Overcome Her Lies If She Testifies This Week], ABC News, January 29, 2013, accessed April 8, 2013</ref> and was living there in June 2008,<ref>Lohr, David, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/jodi-arias_n_1174274.html Jodi Arias Case: Twists And Delays In Alleged Femme Fatale's Murder Trial], ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', December 29, 2011, accessed April 8, 2013</ref> when she drove to [[Mesa, Arizona]] to see her ex-boyfriend [[Murder of Travis Alexander|Travis Alexander]], whom she was later convicted of murdering in his home.<ref>Curry, Colleen, [https://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-borrowed-gas-cans-day-killing-travis/story?id=18345450 Jodi Arias Borrowed Gas Cans Day Before Killing Travis Alexander, Ex-Beau Says], ABC News, January 29, 2013, accessed April 8, 2013</ref> She was found guilty of [[first degree murder]] on May 8, 2013.<ref name="Lohr2">{{cite news|first=David|last=Lohr|title=Travis Alexander Murder: Trial Of Jodi Arias Opens |work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=January 2, 2013|access-date=January 3, 2013|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/travis-alexander-murder-_n_2398863.html}}</ref>
*[[Erik Bennett (baseball)|Erik Bennett]], [[Major League Baseball]] player, was born in Yreka.<ref>{{cite news  | last =Choy  | first =Bill  | title =Erik Bennet returns home: Current Salt Lake pitching coach helps out at clinic  | publisher =Siskiyou Daily  | date =February 7, 2013 | url =http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20130207/SPORTS/130209828/-1/sports?template=printart  | access-date =July 20, 2013 | archive-date =September 27, 2015 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150927045119/http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/article/20130207/SPORTS/130209828/-1/sports?template=printart  | url-status =dead  }}</ref>
*Charles Earl Bowles, a.k.a. [[Black Bart (outlaw)|Black Bart]], robbed a number of stagecoaches on the trails leading to or from Yreka in the 1880s.<ref name="Hoeper1995">{{cite book|author=George Hoeper|title=Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3WgTe2HBtsC|access-date=August 7, 2013|year=1995|publisher=Quill Driver Books|isbn=978-1-884995-05-7}}</ref>
*[[Leander Clark]], an Iowa state legislator and [[Union Army]] officer, prospected for gold in the Yreka area, returning home to the east coast via the [[isthmus of Panama]] in 1852, $3,000 to $4,000 richer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Transcribed by Iowa GenWeb Project |title=History of Tama County Chapter XIII |publisher=Union Publishing Company |year=1883 |location=Springfield, Illinois |url=http://iagenweb.org/tama/ch13.html |access-date=July 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725021758/http://iagenweb.org/tama/ch13.html |archive-date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref>
*[[Edward Silsby Farrington]], [[United States federal judge]], was born in Yreka.<ref>{{Citation
 |title=Farrington, Edward Silsby 
 |url=http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj 
 |journal=Biographical Directory of Federal Judges 
 |access-date=August 7, 2013 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730115701/http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj 
 |archive-date=July 30, 2016 }}</ref>
*[[Marco Grifantini]], baseball player, was born in Yreka.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
*[[William Irwin (California politician)|William Irwin]], Siskiyou representative and later governor of California.<ref name="ClelandEast2007" />
*[[Ross McCloud]] was Siskiyou County surveyor in the middle 1850s and laid out for improvement many of the trails and road courses still in use today.<ref name="www.siskiyous.edu">{{Cite web|title=www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/bib/B13.htm |url=http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/bib/B13.htm |access-date=August 7, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020207000022/http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/bib/B13.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2002 }}</ref>
*[[Patrick F. McManus House|Patrick F. McManus]] was a sutler killed in the Yreka area while hauling mail.<ref>{{cite web|title=McManus, Patrick F., House|url={{NRHP url|id=78002293}}|work=National Park Service Register|publisher=National Park Service|access-date= May 13, 2012}}</ref>   
*[[Tim Meamber]], American football player, was born in Yreka.<ref>[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MeamTi20.htm Tim Meamber], Pro-Football-Reference.com, 2013, accessed July 20, 2013</ref>
*[[Richie Myers]], baseball player, was a resident of Yreka when he died there.<ref>{{Cite web  | title = Obituary For: Richard Myers – Girdner Funeral Chapel | url = http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1196118&fh_id=12566 | access-date = August 7, 2013 }}</ref>
*[[John Otto (park ranger)|John Otto]] was the first park custodian at Colorado National Monument, and was a key advocate for its creation and its later inclusion in the National Park System. He spent his final 20 years on his mining claim near Yreka and was buried in a pauper's grave.<ref>{{Cite web  | title = John Otto – Colorado National Monument | url = http://www.nps.gov/colm/historyculture/john-otto.htm | access-date = August 7, 2013 }}</ref>
*[[Eric Pianka]], biologist, grew up in Yreka and experienced injuries related to a unfired bazooka round.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Bazooka Injuries | url = http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/bazooka.html | access-date = August 7, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130805043641/http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/bazooka.html | archive-date = August 5, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
*[[Elijah Steele]], an early Northern California pioneer, state legislator, and Indian agent who tried to prevent the [[Modoc War]], lived in Yreka when he was Superior Court Judge for Siskiyou County from 1879 to 1883.<ref name="www.rootsweb.ancestry.com">{{Cite web  | last = Wells | first = Harry L.  | title = Elijah Steele | url = http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~casiskiy/History/Biographies/esteele.htm | publisher =  D. J. Stewart & Co | year =1881 | page = 92B & 92C| access-date = August 7, 2013 }}</ref>

== Palindromes ==
"Yreka Bakery" is a [[palindrome]]. The loss of the "B" in a bakery sign read from the reverse is mentioned as a possible source of the name Yreka in Mark Twain's autobiography.<ref name="MT" /><ref>{{cite web  | last =Mikkelson  | first =Barbara   |author2=David Mikkelson   | title = Yreka Bakery  | work = Snopes  | publisher =Snopes.com  | date =August 12, 2011 | url = http://www.snopes.com/language/placenames/yreka.asp   | access-date = August 7, 2013 }}</ref> The original Yreka Bakery was founded in 1856 by baker Frederick Deng.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal  | last =Carey  | first =Don   | title =Yreka Bakery  | journal =Yreka Historic Preservation Corporation, Yreka Echoes  | date =April–May 1983  }} This article was quoting a column by editor Ed Foss in the ''Siskiyou Daily News'', February 9, 1973</ref> The palindrome was recognized early on: "spell Yreka Bakery backwards and you will know where to get a good loaf of bread" is quoted as an ad in the May 23, 1863, Yreka ''Semi-Weekly Journal'' and states that 12 loaves cost $1 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US|value=1|start_year=1863}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The Yreka Bakery moved eventually to its longtime location, 322 West Miner Street, where it remained under several ownerships until it closed in 1965 on retirement of the baker "Martin", and clerk Alta Hudson.{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}} Another Yreka Bakery opened in a different location in 1974,<ref name="ReferenceA" /> but is no longer in business.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Tivoli | first = Brian | url = http://brainyplanet.com/index.php/Yreka%20Bakery%20solution | title = Yreka Bakery solution | publisher = Brainy Planet | date = September 12, 2005 | access-date = August 7, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130501060439/http://brainyplanet.com/index.php/Yreka%20Bakery%20solution | archive-date = May 1, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Author [[Martin Gardner]] mentioned that Yreka Bakery was in business on West Miner Street in Yreka,<ref name="Gardner1979">{{cite book|author=Martin Gardner|title=Mathematical circus: more games, puzzles, paradoxes, & other mathematical entertainments from Scientific American; with thoughts from readers, afterthoughts from the author, and 105 drawings & diagrams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LADvAAAAMAAJ|access-date=April 8, 2013|year=1979|publisher=Knopf|isbn=9780394502076}}</ref>{{rp|246}} but it was pointed out by readers "the Yreka Bakery no longer existed. In 1970 the original premises were occupied by the art store Yrella Gallery, also a palindrome".<ref name="Gardner1979" />{{rp|251}} The historic Brown-Nickell-Authenrieth Building, 322–324 West Miner Street, houses a restaurant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/business/x1301086248/Local-restaurant-owner-preserves-history-of-building |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716075528/http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/business/x1301086248/Local-restaurant-owner-preserves-history-of-building|date=January 20, 2010|archive-date=July 16, 2011|title=Local restaurant owner preserves history of building}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Yreka Western Railroad]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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