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Weed is a city in
Siskiyou County, California Siskiyou County ( ) is a county (United States), county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka, California, Yre ...
, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a total population of 2,862, down from 2,967 in 2010. There are several unincorporated communities adjacent to, or just outside, Weed proper, including Edgewood, Carrick, and Lake Shastina. These communities generally have mailing addresses that use Weed or its ZIP code. Weed is about west-northwest of
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, a prominent northern California landmark, and the second-tallest volcano in the
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. Weed's city motto is "Weed like to welcome you". Weed has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.


History

The City of Weed derives its name from the founder of the local lumber
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and pioneer Abner Weed, who discovered that the area's strong winds were helpful in drying lumber. In 1897, Abner Weed bought the Siskiyou Lumber and Mercantile Mill and of land in what is now the City of Weed, for $400. By the 1940s Weed boasted the world's largest sawmill.


Boles Fire

On September 15, 2014, the Boles Fire spread through Weed, driven by 40-mph winds. The fire started behind the Boles Creek Apartments in the central part of Weed at approximately 1:30 p.m., and within four hours quickly spread to over . Evacuations were immediately ordered, and a shelter was first set up at College of the Siskiyous, but as fire headed towards the college, the evacuation center was relocated first to the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds in Yreka, then to Yreka and Mount Shasta High Schools, then to the armory in Mt. Shasta. Over 200 structures were damaged or destroyed, including two churches, the elementary school,
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, and Roseburg mill. The schools and mill sustained only minimal damage to outbuildings. About 7,678 Pacific Power customers in both Weed and Mt. Shasta lost power as a result of the fire.


Beaughan Spring

The City of Weed gets its water from the Beaughan Spring, with the water being piped directly to homes. In September 2016, ''
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'' reported that French billionaire Pierre Papillaud demanded that Weed give up its Beaughan Spring spring water source so that Papillaud's bottle water company could have more water to sell. Disconnecting from Beaughan Spring would leave Weed without public water. In March 2021, it was reported that the parties involved had reached a compromise which will allow Weed to continue to have access to water from Beaughan Spring in perpetuity.


Mill Fire

In early September 2022, the Mill Fire started in or near Weed, burning down the Lincoln Heights neighborhood.


Geography

Weed is off
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, south of the
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border. The next large settlement to the north on I-5 is Yreka; to the south is the City of Mount Shasta. U.S. Route 97 runs to the northeast and
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. According to the
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, the city has a total area of , of which 0.10% is covered by water. The closest cities with a population greater than 50,000 are
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(69 miles south) and
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(91 miles north).


Climate

Weed has a
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(''Csb'' according to the
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system), featuring cool, wet winters with occasional snowfall, and hot, dry summers. Its average annual precipitation is . Its
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is 7b.


Transportation

Weed is at the intersection of
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and U.S. Route 97. Interstate 5 is the primary north–south transportation corridor for the west coast of the United States running from the Mexico–US border to the Canada–US border. U.S. Route 97 is a major north-south U.S. highway continuing from Weed in a northeasterly direction toward
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, thence through Oregon and Washington to the Canada–US border. California State Route 265 also runs through the City of Weed, locally known as North Weed Boulevard. Only two blocks long, it is the second-shortest state highway in California. Weed is served by Siskiyou County's public transportation bus lines, Siskiyou Transit and General Express, commonly called "The STAGE". The closest airports for commercial air travel are Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport and Redding Municipal Airport. The Weed Airport serves general aviation and as a base of operations for search and rescue operations on Mount Shasta. Corporate visitors or geological researchers typically use this facility.
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trains pass through Weed, but do not stop there. The Amtrak bus/shuttle has one stop in South Weed. The nearest depot for Amtrak train travel is in Dunsmuir, approximately to the south.
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has a bus station, with both north and southbound buses making stops.


Economy

From its founding in 1901, to as late as the 1980s, Weed was home to a thriving lumber industry. Roseburg Forest Products (plywood), International Paper Company, Morgan Products Ltd. (wooden door manufacturing), and J.H. Baxter (wood treatment) were all based in Weed. The historic industrial area at the northeast corner of Weed has been plagued with environmental concerns and clean-up efforts as a result of chemicals used for wood treatment, as well as chemical residue from glue used in the door factory. Although historically reliant on logging, wood processing and forest-related products, Weed's economy has become more reliant on tourism as a source of economic activity. Weed's microbrewery, Mt. Shasta Brewing Company, relies on tourists for 92 percent of its business, according to co-owner Vaune Dillman. Today, most of the wood-product-related industry has been scaled back or ceased altogether, and new retail and light industrial activity is concentrated in the southeast corner of Weed. Retail at the south end of Weed, in the form of restaurants and hotels, caters primarily to tourist travel on the Interstate 5 corridor. Light manufacturing of bottled water from Crystal Geyser Water Company has also added economic stability to the area. Weed is part of the Shasta Valley Enterprise Zone which provides tax breaks, fee reductions, and permit fast-tracking for employers locating in the area. As of 2007, the largest employers in Weed were: * College of the Siskiyous (100–249 employees) * Roseburg Forest Products (100–249 employees) * Crystal Geyser CG Roxane (25–99 employees) *Weed Union Elementary School District (25–99 employees) As a small community with few retail outlets, taxable sales within the city are somewhat limited, totaling $89 million in 2012. In the November 2014 general election, the voters of Weed passed Measure J, which raised the city's sales and use tax rate by 0.25 percent.


Education

Primary education in Weed is conducted at Weed Elementary School (K-8th grade). Butteville Elementary School (K-8th grade) is just outside the City of Weed, in the hamlet of Edgewood, and has an enrollment similar to Weed Elementary. Secondary-level students are educated at Weed High School (grades 9–12), part of the Siskiyou Union High School District. The school is known for its picturesque campus and diverse student body. The College of the Siskiyous, located in Weed, provides a steady source of employment for faculty and staff, a source of visitors for the local economy, and offers a two-year junior college education with various associate degree and vocational certificate programs.


Recreation and tourism

Visitors use Weed as a base to engage in trout fishing in the nearby Klamath,Siskiyou County information site
accessed February 21, 2008.
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and McCloud Rivers, or come to see and climb
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, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps.Outdoor recreational activities in area
accessed February 24, 2008.
Visitors also engage in nearby skiing (both alpine and cross-country) and biking, or hike to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Mossbrae Falls,
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, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake. The town's name, being the same as a slang term for
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, has caused it to gain a small notoriety. Many shops have popped up around town selling shirts and other trinkets that say "I Love Weed, California".


Recreation facilities and parks

Weed is near
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,
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, and Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. In addition to these state and federal parks, there are numerous local recreation opportunities. *The Lake Shastina Golf Resort offers an 18-hole golf course, and a 9-hole Scottish links course in a scenic setting. *Local parks managed by the Weed Parks and Recreation District include: Lincoln Park (renamed Charles Byrd Community Park in 2004) which is an park with restrooms, a playground, basketball courts, and is the home to the Weed Skatepark; as well as Bel Air Park, adjacent to College of the Siskiyous and home of the community swimming pool. *Weed is on the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway, and is a short distance from the
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. *Nearby Mount Shasta Ski Park offers alpine and Nordic skiing in winter, as well as summertime mountain biking, rock climbing, and a concert series. *The same wind that prompted the founding of Weed, as it was used to dry wood products, makes nearby Lake Shastina a popular destination for short-board windsurfing. *The Deer Mountain Snowmobile Park, is northeast of Weed on US Highway 97 and offers of groomed trails.


Historic sites and museums

* The Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum is a small, seasonal, local museum in the heart of Weed. It features sawmill machinery and artifacts from Weed's early days * The Veterans' Living Memorial Sculpture Garden is northeast of Weed on US Highway 97, and consists of steel sculptures and other memorials honoring the service of U.S. veterans.


Demographics


2010

The 2010 United States Census reported that Weed had a population of 2,967. The population density was . The racial makeup of Weed was 2,221 (74.9 percent)
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, 206 (6.9 percent)
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, 70 (2.4 percent) Native American, 121 (4.1 percent) Asian, 27 (0.9 percent)
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, 132 (4.4 percent) from other races, and 190 (6.4 percent) from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 475 persons (16.0 percent). The census reported that 2,820 people (95.0 percent of the population) lived in households, 101 (3.4 percent) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 46 (1.6%) were institutionalized. There were 1,131 households, out of which 385 (34 percent) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 447 (39.5 percent) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 188 (16.6 percent) had a female householder with no husband present, 81 (7.2 percent) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 103 (9.1 percent) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 2 (0.2 percent) same-sex married couples or partnerships. Three hundred-eleven households (27.5 percent) were made up of individuals, and 125 (11.1 percent) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49. There were 716
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(63.3 percent of all households); the average family size was 3.02. The population was spread out, with 735 people (24.8 percent) under the age of 18, 460 people (15.5 percent) aged 18 to 24, 660 people (22.2 percent) aged 25 to 44, 698 people (23.5 percent) aged 45 to 64, and 414 people (14 percent) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100 males. There were 1,273 housing units at an average density of , of which 543 (48 percent) were owner-occupied, and 588 (52 percent) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.8 percent. Forty-three percent of the population (1,275 persons) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 1,545 people (52.1 percent) lived in rental housing units.


2000

As of the
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of 2000, there were 2,978 people, 1,184 households, and 747 families residing in the city. The
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was 613.4 people per square mile (237.1 km2). There were 1,293 housing units at an average density of 266.3 per square mile (102.9 km2). The racial makeup of the city was 73.27 percent
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, 9.27 percent
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or
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, 1.95 percent Native American, 4.57 percent Asian, 0.47 percent
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, 5.51 percent from other races, and 4.97 percent from two or more races.
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or Latino people of any race made up 12.76 percent of the population. The number of violent crimes recorded by the FBI in 2003 was 25. The number of murders and homicides was one. The violent crime rate was 8.5 per 1,000 people. In the city, age distribution was spread out, with 25.6 percent under the age of 18, 14.4 percent from 18 to 24, 22.6 percent from 25 to 44, 20.2 percent from 45 to 64, and 17.2 percent who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males. The median
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for a household in the city was $23,333, and the median income for a family was $32,197. Males had a median income of $29,052 versus $21,894 for females. The
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for the city was $12,434. Below the
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: 23.9 percent of the population and 17.2 percent of families. Of the total population, 30.9 percent of those under the age of 18 and 4.9 percent of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. Traffic: The average commute time for Weed workers is 12 minutes, compared with 26 minutes nationwide. Housing: Median rent in Weed, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $348. Monthly mortgages were $676. Average monthly rent in all of California is $1341. Education: seven percent of Weed residents age 25 and older have a bachelor's or advanced college degree. Of the population 84.97 percent spoke English as their primary language, while 15.02 percent did not; of those 9.87 percent speak Spanish, 2.90 speak Italian, and 2.23 percent speak Laotian. One hundred percent of the population speaks English.


Ethnic migration

Weed's historic
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industry and manufacturing facilities made it a magnet for ethnic minority migration, that may not have otherwise been the case in this region of the country. A large number of Italian immigrants migrated to Weed, and other towns in southern Siskiyou County at the turn of the 20th century. While immigrants were a source of labor for the region, they were not always well treated, in fact in 1909 complaints from workers in the lumber industry reached the Italian consul. However, in time the Italian population came to be a cornerstone of Weed civic life. Many streets in the early Italian neighborhood bear names of Italian cities, such as Rome, Genoa, Como, and Venice. Annually since 1954, Weed has held the Weed Italian Carnevale in June or July, although recently dropping "Italian" from its name while maintaining the Italian spelling of carnival and the traditional
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ball tournaments. A large number of black-Americans migrated to Weed as well, to work in Long-Bell Lumber Company's Weed facility after the company closed two mills in Louisiana in 1922. The company promised to advance travel expenses and provide housing for workers relocating to Weed. Immigrants locating in Weed since the 1980s have come primarily from Mexico and Laos. As a result of these migrations, Weed has a much more ethnically diverse population than Siskiyou County as a whole. Netting the Hispanic or Latino population out of Census figures for white race, Weed's white population is 60.6 percent compared to Siskiyou County at 79.5 percent using the same metric.


Politics

The city council of Weed is composed of five members who are elected at large and serve four-year terms. The Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem are elected each year from the five council members and serve a one-year term. Susan Tavalero is currently serving as Mayor of Weed until November 2020, with Stacey Green serving as Mayor Pro Tem. In the
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Weed is in , and . Federally, Weed is in . In Siskiyou County Supervisoral District 3, in which Weed is the core community, voter registration was 39.6 percent Democrat, 39.1 percent Republican, 16.2 percent decline to state, with remainder split among other political parties such as Green and Libertarian as of 2006.


Notable people

* Mario Pastega (1916–2012), businessman and philanthropist, born in WeedEd Langlois
"Going Like a House on Fire,"
''The Catholic Sentinel,'' www.catholicsentinel.org/ August 19, 2011.
*
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(1946–1974), long-term companion of
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, vocalist of
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, born in Weed * Aaron Thomas (1937–2024), NFL player, tight end for
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and
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; grew up in Weed and graduated from Weed High School * Maurice A. Preston (1912–1983), general


Local media

* KHWA 99.3 Mount Shasta, 101.7 Yreka and 102.3 Weed * KZRO-FM 100.1 "z100 FM" Mount Shasta * KKLC 107.9
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Fall River Mills * Northland Communications * MCTV 15 Mountain Community Television (at College of the Siskiyous) * ''Weed Press'' is the official newspaper of Weed.


In popular culture

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's novella-play ''
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'' begins with the protagonists, George and Lennie, fleeing a farm they worked at in Weed after Lennie got into trouble. Weed is the setting of a large subplot in
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's
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'' The Hot War''. The song "Velvety" from the 2002 album '' Devil's Workshop'' by
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mentions the town of Weed. "Out on the Eisenhower where I lost my speed just a little bit south of a town called Weed".


Footnotes


External links


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