Shasta
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Shasta can be a reference to a Native American tribe, and also various locations in Northern California. The term is applied to numerous natural features in the same general vicinity, and many other items associated with the area. Shasta may refer to:
Geography and locations
- Mount ShastaMount ShastaMount Shasta is located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California and at is the second highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth highest in California...
, part of the Cascade Range in California - Mount Shasta, CaliforniaMount Shasta, CaliforniaMount Shasta is a city in Siskiyou County, California, located at around 3,600 ft on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a prominent northern California landmark. The city is less than southwest of the summit of its namesake volcano...
, a city located southwest of Mount Shasta - Shasta County, CaliforniaShasta County, CaliforniaShasta County is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The county occupies the northern reaches of the Sacramento Valley, with portions extending into the southern reaches of the Cascade Range. As of the 2010 census, the population was 177,223, up from 163,256...
, named for the mountain - Shasta RiverShasta RiverThe Shasta River is a tributary of the Klamath River, approximately long, in northern California in the United States. It drains the Shasta Valley on the west and north sides of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Range....
, a river near Mount Shasta - Shasta LakeShasta LakeShasta Lake, also called Lake Shasta, is an artificial lake created by the construction of Shasta Dam across the Sacramento River in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest of Shasta County, California...
, the reservoir behind Shasta Dam - Shasta Lake, CaliforniaShasta Lake, CaliforniaShasta Lake or Shasta Lake City is a city in Shasta County, California, United States. It is the closest settlement to Lake Shasta and the Shasta Dam, which are popular tourist destinations...
, a city near Shasta Lake - Shasta DamShasta DamShasta Dam is an arch dam across the Sacramento River in the northern part of the U.S. state of California, at the north end of the Sacramento Valley. The dam mainly serves long-term water storage and flood control in its reservoir, Shasta Lake, and also generates hydroelectric power...
, on the Sacramento River in California - Shasta SpringsShasta SpringsShasta Springs was the name of a popular summer resort on the Upper Sacramento River, during the late Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth Century...
, a former resort on the Sacramento River - Shasta, CaliforniaShasta, CaliforniaShasta is a census-designated place in Shasta County, California. Shasta sits at an elevation of . The 2010 United States census reported Shasta's population was 1,771....
, a former mining town (west of present-day Redding, California), now abandoned - Shasta State Historic Park, the current state park at the site of Shasta
- State of Shasta, part of an 1854 proposal to partition California into three states
Products
- Shasta (soft drink)Shasta (soft drink)Shasta Beverages is a U.S. soft drink manufacturer, which markets a value-priced soft drink line with a wide variety of soda flavors, under the brand name Shasta Soda. The company name is derived from Mount Shasta and an associated spring.- History :...
, a soft drink brand - Shasta (shampoo), a former product of Procter & GambleProcter & GambleProcter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....
Pop culture
- Shasta (Narnia)Shasta (Narnia)Shasta, later known as Cor of Archenland, is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. He is the principal character in the fifth book published in the series, The Horse and His Boy, which is the third book chronologically...
, the main character in the 1954 C. S. Lewis novel The Horse and His Boy - Shasta of the WolvesShasta of the WolvesShasta of the Wolves is a 1919 feral child novel by American author Olaf Baker.On a mountain in the Pacific Northwest, apparently in the 19th century, the she-wolf Nitka discovers an abandoned Native American baby and is inspired by the "Spirit of the Wild" to raise him alongside her own cubs...
, a 1919 feral child novel and its title character by Olaf Baker - Shasta McNastyShasta McNastyShasta McNasty is an American sitcom that aired on UPN during the 1999-2000 season. The show was created by Jeff Eastin and produced by Eastin and Neal H. Moritz...
was a television sitcom on UPN that was later renamed to Shasta - "Shasta Beast", the twelfth track on the 2006 Eagles of Death Metal release Death By SexyDeath by SexyDeath by Sexy is the title of the second album by the American rock group Eagles of Death Metal. It was rumoured to be released in summer 2005 but was pushed back to April 11, 2006....
- "Shasta", the seventh track on singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's 2004 album Warm StrangersWarm StrangersWarm Strangers is singer-songwriter Vienna Teng's second album.-Track listing:#Feather Moon - 4:06#Harbor - 4:24#Hope on Fire - 4:26#Shine - 2:39#Mission Street - 4:32#My Medea - 4:09#Shasta - 3:29...
Other
- Shasta, a broadband routing node sold by Nortel Networks for use in telecommunications networks
- Shasta Groene, a young girl abducted from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
- Shasta PublishersShasta PublishersShasta Publishers was a science fiction and fantasy small press specialty publishing house founded in 1947 by Erle Melvin Korshak, T. E. Dikty, and Mark Reinsberg, who were all science fiction fans from the Chicago area...
, a 1950s US science fiction publishing imprint - Shasta (mascot)Shasta (mascot)Shasta is the mascot of the University of Houston athletics teams, the Houston Cougars. Shasta is a female cougar. While previously a live cougar, Shasta is now a costumed mascot.-History:...
, the name of the University of Houston's mascot - USS ShastaUSS ShastaUSS Shasta refers to two ammunition ships of the U.S. Navy:, commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1969, later USNS Shasta , commissioned in 1972, decommissioned in 1997 and transferred to the Military Sealift Command...
, either of two ammunition replenishment ships of the United States Navy - SHASTA, the callsign for Lynx Aviation (United States)Lynx Aviation (United States)Lynx Aviation, Inc. was a regional airline based in Denver, Colorado, USA. The airline was a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings and operated feeder service for Frontier Airlines. The Lynx name plays off of the tail pictures of its planes, specifically Larry the Lynx, and the fact that it...
, based in Denver, Colorado - Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
, 20th century Soviet Russian Composer