Gas Point, California

Gas Point (40°24′56″N 122°32′04″W / 40.41556°N 122.53444°W / 40.41556; -122.53444)^[1] is a former unincorporated community and former ghost town in Shasta County, California, on Cottonwood Creek. It was also known as Pinckney and Janesville and started as a 1849 California Gold Rush Mining town after gold was found at Reading's Bar.^[2]

Gas Point, by then a true ghost town only visited occasionally by tourists, burned to the ground on April 8, 2008. The cause of the fire remains unknown.^[3]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gas Point, Shasta County, California
^ Miller, Donald C. (1978). Ghost towns of California. Pruett Publisyhing Company. p. 71. ISBN 0871085178.
^ David Benda (April 9, 2008), "Gas Point ghost town destroyed – Historic buildings consumed by flames; cause of blaze is unknown", Record Searchlight, Redding, California, archived from the original on April 10, 2008

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[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gas Point, Shasta County, California

[2] Miller, Donald C. (1978). Ghost towns of California. Pruett Publisyhing Company. p. 71. ISBN 0871085178.

[3] David Benda (April 9, 2008), "Gas Point ghost town destroyed – Historic buildings consumed by flames; cause of blaze is unknown", Record Searchlight, Redding, California, archived from the original on April 10, 2008

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Shasta County, California, United States
County seat: Redding
Cities	Anderson Redding Shasta Lake	Shasta County map
CDPs	Bella Vista Big Bend Burney Cassel Castella Centerville Cottonwood Fall River Mills French Gulch Happy Valley Hat Creek Igo Johnson Park Jones Valley Keswick Lakehead McArthur Millville Montgomery Creek Mountain Gate Oak Run Old Station Ono Palo Cedro Platina Round Mountain Shasta Shingletown Whitmore
Unincorporated communities	Beegum Dana Enterprise Ingot Lakehead-Lakeshore O'Brien Pollard Flat Viola
Indian reservations	Big Bend Rancheria Redding Rancheria
Ghost towns	Gas Point Kennett Whiskeytown Horsetown Briggsville Lower Springs Piety Hill Texas Springs Bald Hills Tower House Hazel Creek Delta Dog Creek Bayles
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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v t e California Gold Rush
Geology	Gold in California
People	List of people associated with the California Gold Rush Women in the California Gold Rush
Culture	Oh My Darling, Clementine Mursheen Durkin
Key California Gold sites	Sutter's Mill Reading's Bar Empire Mine
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