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State Route 263 (SR 263) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California in Siskiyou County, running parallel to Interstate 5 to the west. Route 263 connects State Route 3 near the north city limits of Yreka to State Route 96 eight miles (13 km) north.
March 12, 2018 (Hill R., 2 mi. S of jct. with CA 161, Tule Lake National Monument Tulelake: Originally a Civilian Conservation Corps camp established in 1935. During World War II, a maximum security prison camp for incarcerating dissident interned Japanese Americans (1943) and German prisoners of war (1944–1946).
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 1,200 square miles (3,100 km 2) county area. [47] The Yreka elementary school district is composed of Evergreen Elementary as well as the Jackson Street Middle School.
Yreka — a city in and county seat of Siskiyou County, in the Shasta Cascade region of northern California. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Siskiyou County is the northern extent of the range for California Buckeye, [11] a widespread California endemic. The Klamath National Forest occupies 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2 ) of land which includes elements in Siskiyou County as well as Jackson County, Oregon .
The short piece from SR 36 north to Peanut was added to the state highway system in 1907 as part of the Peanut Road, [13] which became Route 35 in 1917. [14] Route 35 was extended north from Peanut to Route 20 near Douglas City in 1933, and simultaneously a new Route 82 was created, running from Route 3 in the Yreka area southwest to Etna and east to Montague.
During World War II, the airport was designated as Montague Air Force Auxiliary Field, and was an auxiliary training airfield for Hamilton Field, California. The airport returned to civil control in 1945 after the war. The last major improvement consisted of lengthening the runway by 600 feet to its present 3,360 feet in 1982.
The tribe operates the Rain Rock Casino in Yreka, California. [11] The People's Center in Happy Camp is the tribe's museum and cultural center. The 5,000-square-foot building (460 m 2) has a changing gallery, museum store, classroom, library, office for the language program, and archives and collections storage. [12]