USGS satellite photo of Stirling City Stirling City is an unincorporated village in Butte County, California, located on Paradise Ridge in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Its population is approximately 400. The village's ZIP Code is 95978. Butte County is a county located in Californias Central Valley, north of Sacramento. ...
Sierra Nevada, meaning snowy range in Spanish, is the name of at least two mountain ranges: Sierra Nevada (Spain) in Andalusia, Spain Sierra Nevada (US) in California and Nevada, United States Sierra Nevada (Mexico) in Mexico There are also two single mountains named Sierra Nevada in the Andes which are...
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Stirling City is located at 39.90688° N 121.52747° W, around 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Chico, California, at an altitude of 3532 feet. It is built around a loop (which terminates a winding spur line) of the Southern Pacific Railroad, built to collect lumber from the Lassen National Forest. Chico is a city located in Butte County, California. ...
The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ...
It was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by the Diamond Match Company of Barberton, Ohio, as a center for processing cut lumber from the surrrounding forests. Diamond Match official Fred Clough named the city, taking the name from the boiler used at Diamond's Baberton plant, made by the Stirling Boiler Company. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...
Barberton is a city located in Summit County, Ohio. ...
The sawmill closed in the 1950s. The land surrounding Stirling City is still harvested for timber, and the cleared area is farmed for cattle, fruit, and nuts. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...
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