Sites is an

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Colusa County Colusa County () is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,839. The county seat is Colusa. It is in the North Valley of California, northwest of the state capital, Sacramento. History C ...

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, United States. It lies at an elevation of 299 feet (91 m).Its ZIP code is 95979 and its area code is

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History

Carl E. Grunsky named the area for John H. Sites, a landholder, in 1887. The same year, a

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was established. It was discontinued in 1968. Sites and the valley surrounding it have been considered a prime candidate for the location of the

Sites Reservoir The Sites Reservoir is a proposed $5.2 billion offstream reservoir project west of Colusa in the Sacramento Valley of northern California, to be built by the California Department of Water Resources. The project would pump per year of the w ...

that would store water for the state system.

Politics

In the state legislature, Sites is in , and . Federally, Sites is in .

References

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