Black Bear is a

populated place Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

, originally a

gold mining Gold mining is the extraction of gold resources by mining. Historically, mining gold from alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. However, with the expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface ...

town in Klamath County, now in unincorporated

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 ...

. It is located on Black Bear Creek, a tributary of the South Fork Salmon River.

History

Black Bear, now in Siskiyou County was a gold mining camp, in the now defunct Klamath County, that had a post office from 1869. From 1874 it was within that part of Klamath County annexed to Siskiyou County. Its post office was closed and moved to

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 ...

in 1941.Frickstad, Walter N., A Century of California Post Offices 1848-1954, Philatelic Research Society, Oakland, CA. 1955, Pages 60-69.

References

Settlements formerly in Klamath County, California Unincorporated communities in Siskiyou County, California Populated places established in 1869 1869 establishments in California Unincorporated communities in California {{SiskiyouCountyCA-geo-stub