Bestville, California

Bestville is an unincorporated community in on the North Fork Salmon River in Siskiyou County, California, just down stream from Sawyers Bar.^[1]

History

Bestville, now in Siskiyou County was a California Gold Rush mining camp,^[2] first in Trinity County (one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood). Then in the now defunct Klamath County from 1851 to 1874. It was then within that part of Klamath County annexed to Siskiyou County.

References

1. ↑ GNIS Feature Detail Report for: Bestville
2. ↑ Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. VI, 1848-1859, The History company, San Francisco, 1888, p.370

Coordinates: 41°18′03″N 123°08′35″W / 41.3007°N 123.1431°W / 41.3007; -123.1431

v t e Municipalities and communities of Siskiyou County, California, United States County seat: Yreka Cities Dorris Dunsmuir Etna Fort Jones Montague Mount Shasta Tulelake Weed Yreka CDPs Carrick Edgewood Gazelle Greenview Grenada Happy Camp Hornbrook Macdoel McCloud Mount Hebron Tennant Unincorporated communities Bestville Big Springs Black Bear Black Butte Callahan Cecilville Forks of Salmon Hatfield‡ Horse Creek Klamath River Little Shasta Oro Fino Pondosa Sawyers Bar Scott Bar Seiad Valley Somes Bar Indian reservation Quartz Valley Indian Community Ghost towns Deadwood Gullion's Bar Hooperville Negro Flat Wingate Bar Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties