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Bestville is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in on the North Fork Salmon River in
Siskiyou County, California Siskiyou County (, ) is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregio ...
, just downstream from
Sawyers Bar Lawyers Bar (also, Sawyers Bar) was a settlement in Klamath County now Del Norte County, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total are ...
.GNIS Feature Detail Report for: Bestville
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History

Bestville, now in Siskiyou County was a
California Gold Rush The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California fro ...
mining camp,Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. VI, 1848-1859, The History company, San Francisco, 1888, p.370 first in Trinity County (one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood). Then in the now defunct Klamath County from 1851 to 1874. It was then within that part of Klamath County annexed to the Siskiyou County.


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Settlements formerly in Klamath County, California Unincorporated communities in Siskiyou County, California Unincorporated communities in California {{SiskiyouCountyCA-geo-stub