Henleyville, California | |
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Unincorporated community | |
  Henleyville | |
| Coordinates: 39°57′43″N122°19′36″W / 39.96194°N 122.32667°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| County | Tehama County |
| Elevation | 133 m (436 ft) |
Henleyville is an unincorporated community in Tehama County, in the U.S. state of California. [1]
Henleyville was one of the communities in Tehama County homesteaded by settlers in the 1860s and 1870s. [2] It was likely named after William N. Henley, who was from Indiana and registered to vote at "Henleys" on August 3, 1866. [3] [4]
A post office occupied the same building as the general store, and was in operation at Henleyville from 1873 to 1878, and from 1880 until 1936. [2]
In October 1881, the Howell School in Henleyville had one teacher and 15 students, including five boys and ten girls. [5]
According to the Red Bluff Daily News, the first death by lightning recorded in Tehama County occurred on October 4, 1901, four miles west of Henleyville, killing an 18 year old at a blacksmith shop, as well as the horse he was shoeing. [2]
When writer Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, the Red Bluff Daily News reported that she was a niece of area resident Thomas L. Sydenstricker and once visited his Henleyville home. [6]
Based on 1990 census data, a United States Department of Agriculture report found that the population of the Henleyville-Paskenta-Sunnyside "block group aggregation" was 1,697. [7]
Tehama County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,829. The county seat and largest city is Red Bluff.
Red Bluff is a city in and the county seat of Tehama County, California, United States. The population was 14,710 at the 2020 census, up from 14,076 at the 2010 census.
Bridgeville is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 12 miles (19 km) north-northeast of Weott, at an elevation of 636 feet. Bridgeville is 260 mi (420 km) north of San Francisco, with a population of about 25.
Rolinda is a small unincorporated agricultural community in Fresno County, California, United States. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 253 feet. It is located along State Route 180. Official U.S. Geological Survey coordinates for the community are 36°44′07″N119°57′43″W. The community is in area code 559. It does not have its own ZIP code and mail uses the Fresno ZIP code of 93706.
The Abbey of New Clairvaux is a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the small town of Vina in Tehama County. The farmland, once owned by Leland Stanford, grows prunes, walnuts, and grapes that the monks harvest from the orchards and vineyards to sustain the community.
KALF is a commercial radio station licensed to Red Bluff, California, and located in Chico, California, broadcasting to Butte, Shasta, Tehama, and Glenn Counties on 95.7 FM. KALF airs a country music format branded as "New Country 95-7 The Wolf".
Kirkwood was a town in Tehama County, California, which survives only as the Kirkwood school district and Kirkwood cemetery today. It once had a post office and school, and a railway station. The town was not named Kirkwood until the railway arrived; the school originally having been named Montgomery School and the property owned by postmaster William Wallace Watkins. The town grew up around the railway station.
Rohnerville is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 2.25 miles (3.6 km) southeast of Fortuna, at an elevation of 197 feet (60 m).
Rancho Saucos was a 22,212-acre (89.89 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Tehama County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Robert H. Thomes. The name means "Ranch of the Elder trees". The grant extended along the west side of the Sacramento River from Elder Creek and Rancho Las Flores on the north to Thomes Creek on the south, and encompassed present-day Tehama.
The Greenville Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California is a federally recognized tribe of Maidu people in Plumas and Tehama Counties, California.
Red Bank Creek is a major stream in Tehama County, California, and a tributary of the Sacramento River. About 39 miles (63 km) long, it originates in the foothills of the Coast Ranges, near the boundary of the Mendocino National Forest, and flows east across the Sacramento Valley to join the Sacramento River near Red Bluff. Red Bank Creek, like the other streams draining this part of the western Sacramento Valley, is a highly seasonal stream that flows only during the winter and spring.
Beegum, also known as Bee Gum, is a defunct town which was located in an unincorporated area of Tehama and Shasta counties, in the U.S. state of California. In the early 1900s, it was a mining town in the Harrison Gulch mining district.
Cold Fork, California is a historical crossroads and small settlement along Cold Fork Creek, a river tributary of the Cottonwood Creek in Tehama County, in the U.S. state of California, recorded on some historical maps as a district. The tributary, which is a fork of the South Fork of Cottonwood Creek, rises on the east slope of North Yolla Bolly Mountain, and flows generally east from there for about 22 miles (35 km) falling from an altitude of 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above sea level to 5,200 feet (1,600 m).
El Camino is a rural community and irrigation district near Gerber in Tehama County, in the U.S. state of California. As a special district, the El Camino Irrigation District is owned by local residents who govern it through locally elected board members.
Hooker is an unincorporated area in northwest Tehama County, California, near Hooker Creek. It is an agricultural community.
Lowrey's was a settlement in Tehama County, California that was named for George M. Lowrey and located on Elder Creek. What remains of it today are a ranch and a road named Lowrey Road.
Lyonsville in Tehama County, California was the site of the Lyonsville Mill, a major lumber operation which was once the largest sawmill in Northern California. It was located between the north and south forks of Antelope Creek, high above Hogsback Ridge. The mill served logging operations around Antelope Creek, and around it grew a town of the same name, with two saloons, a community hall, a general store, a post office, and machine and blacksmith shops. At its peak, there were more than 1000 people in the town.
Red Bank is an agricultural district in Tehama County, in the U.S. state of California. The district and nearby Red Bank Creek both take their names from Rancho Barranca Colorado. The red soil in question was said to be on the north bank of the creek. Red Bank was later the name of a post office in the district, previously named Eby, and of a school in the district.
Loybas Hill is an unincorporated community in Tehama County, in the U.S. state of California. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the community is on the west side of the Sacramento River and 4.6 miles southeast of the city of Corning.
The Superior Court of California, County of Tehama, also known as the Tehama County Superior Court or Tehama Superior Court, is the branch of the California superior court with jurisdiction over Tehama County.
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