Gas Point, California

Gas Point (40°24′56″N 122°32′04″W / 40.41556°N 122.53444°W / 40.41556; -122.53444)[1] is a former 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.

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