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We would like to provide the residents of  Sierra City  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Sierra City Home page. The Sierra City Home page provides as much information as possible on Sierra City. Knowing Sierra City’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sierra City’s Home page, you will also find Sierra City’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Sierra City has a population of 84. 48.8% of Sierra City’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.2 are female. 90.5% of Sierra City is married and 100% own their own home. Household median income in Sierra City is $96,406, and the individual median income is $53,333. Sierra City’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%).


Before the California Gold Rush, only Native Americans had ventured into the area, which lies northwest of Lake Tahoe on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, and which lay between areas inhabited by Maidu, Nisenan, and Washo peoples (Pre-Contact Tribal Map). The area is now part of the Tahoe National Forest. A settlement was established in 1850 by Philo A.


Haven and Joseph Zumwalt, who were also involved with the settling of Downieville (Sinnott). In the Winter of 1852-53, however, an avalanche of snow destroyed the settlement, which was not rebuilt for several years. Ferdinand, Gustav, and Christian Reis purchased several mining claims near the Sierra Buttes and began to resettle Sierra City, which had a peak population of 3,000 during the decade after gold was discovered in California (1849). Numerous hard-rock gold mines were developed on both sides of the North Yuba River Canyon near Sierra City.


These include the Colombo Mine, the Independence Mine, the Keystone Mine, the Monumental Mine, the Great Sierra Buttes Mine, and the William Tell Mine. The Monumental Nugget, weighing over 106 pounds avoirdupois, was recovered in September 1869.Placer mining was also practiced and continues today on the banks of the North Yuba.


On February 10, 1963, Alec M. Ostrom of Sierra City discovered a nugget weighing 8 troy ounces while placer mining (Sinnott.)


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