Bureau headquarters office and maintenance facilities were located on Kenneth Avenue, parallel to Shasta Dam Boulevard.

All bureau employees were forced to vacate Toyon by the end of 1964 when the facility was turned over to the Job Corps as a work camp as a part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

Water and electric power were turned off after the Native Americans failed to pay a $28,000 utility bill.

Conflicts between law enforcement and the occupying Native Americans continued, and a large number of the homes burned to the ground.

The historic Seaman Ranch Community House and the large USBR headquarters building also burned to the ground in this era.

Today, one metal storage building and the flagpole are the only remaining structures other than overgrown streets and sidewalks.

When oil production slowed down in the 1970s, Redding surpassed Central Valley in population in 1965 when it incorporated the community of Enterprise[citation needed].

Several restaurants, gas stations and a few motels encompass the area of the Shasta Dam Boulevard and Interstate 5 interchange.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.9 square miles (28 km2), 99.93% of it land and 0.07% of it covered by water.

Shasta Lake has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa) typical of the Northern California interior.

Summers are hot and dry, with great diurnal temperature variation, while winters are wet and cool.

There were 4,209 housing units at an average density of 385.1 per square mile (148.7/km2), of which 2,623 (66.5%) were owner-occupied, and 1,320 (33.5%) were occupied by renters.

[10] Federally, Shasta Lake is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.