Tag: Red Bluff
Red Bluff is a city in and the county seat of Tehama County, California, United States. The population was 14,076 at the 2010 census, up from 13,147 at the 2000 census.
Red Bluff is about 30 miles (48km) south of Redding, 40 miles (64km) northwest of Chico, and 125 miles (201km) north of Sacramento. It is the third largest city in the Shasta Cascades. The name Red Bluff seems to highlight the scenic location overlooking the Sacramento River.
The Nomlaki (Central Wintun) and Southern Yana people originally inhabited the area along the banks of the Sacramento River where Red Bluff was built. Most of the native population of the area are thought to have died in a malaria epidemic or smallpox epidemic brought by trappers in the early 1830s, shortly before white settlers arrived in the 1840s.
While the Spanish army officer Gabriel Moraga explored the southern Sacramento Valley in 1808, it was not until the 1821 expedition of Luís Antonio Argüello that Europeans recorded a visit to the Red…
