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A local military fort operated from 1852 to 1857. Nearby Etna (originally Etna Mills) began as a gold mining town, but people also found gold in growing grain for the miners’ bread. Callahan, another stage stop and mining town, resides at the south end of the valley. CallahanCecilville Road (Co. Rd. 1C02) to the south also allows access to the Salmon River country. Agriculture greatly reshaped the valley bottom, and today the area is committed to alfalfa. Mountainsides are mostly part of the Klamath National Forest.
The forested lands, especially those in the King Range, receive some of the highest rainfall and the San Andreas Fault is important in changing the appearance of northwest California. Northwest California and the adjacent offshore area is the most active seismic area in the whole state. The instrument-based records of earthquakes on the North Coast extend back only to the early 1900s, but written accounts tell of 60 damaging earthquakes as far back as 1853. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake strongly damaged Ferndale, which is more than 200 miles to the north.
The klamath 15 LANDS OF THE SCOTT RIVER A visit to Scott Valley, the largest in the region, seems like a taste of the Great Basin with its foothill ranchlands of juniper and sagebrush (Map 5). Scott Valley is a fast hop from Yreka and I 5 by way of SR 3 or GrazelleCallahan Road (Siskiyou Co. 2H01) through the modestly tall Greenhorn Mountains clothed in open stands of Jeffrey pine and oak (Pl. 4). A quick look at a map confirms that we are in the rain shadow of several mountain ranges between here and the Pacific Ocean.