Gas Point (40°24′56″N 122°32′04″W / 40.41556°N 122.53444°W / 40.41556; -122.53444 [ 1] unincorporated community and former ghost town in Shasta County, California, on Cottonwood Creek . It was also known as Pinckney and Janesville and started as a 1849 California Gold Rush Mining town after gold was found at Reading's Bar .[ 2]
Gas Point, by then a true ghost town only visited occasionally by tourists, burned to the ground on April 8, 2008. The cause of the fire remains unknown.[ 3]
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References
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gas Point, Shasta County, California ^ Miller, Donald C. (1978). Ghost towns of California 71 . ISBN 0871085178 ^ David Benda (April 9, 2008), "Gas Point ghost town destroyed – Historic buildings consumed by flames; cause of blaze is unknown" , Record Searchlight , Redding, California, archived from the original on April 10, 2008
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