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Welcome to Little Shasta ...

Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Little Shasta, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1888.

Little Shasta is 2,700 feet [823 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Little Shasta is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Little Shasta lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Little Shasta: 530

Communities near Little Shasta ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Little Shasta.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Little Shasta. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Little Shasta.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Little Shasta. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Little Shasta.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Shasta. See our Newspapers Page for Little Shasta.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Shasta ...

Looking for more information about Little Shasta? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Little Shasta, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Little Shasta.

Adding Little Shasta to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Little Shasta in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Little Shasta was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Little Shasta post office opened in 1888.

We also found Little Shasta in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Little Shasta.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Siskiyou, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Little Shasta - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/