Bieber (California)
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | Lassen County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 7 ′ N , 121 ° 9 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 579 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Height : | 1257 m | ||
| Postal code : | 96009 | ||
| Area code : | +1 530 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-06336 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 253152 | ||
Bieber is a small town in Lassen County in the US state of California .
Location and population
The place is located on a plateau on California State Route 299 through which the Pit River flows .
Bieber has 579 inhabitants (as of 2000) and is located at an altitude of 1250 m . Bieber is the main town in the Big Valley , to which the towns of Nubieber and Adin also belong. The rural town is about 250 miles north of Sacramento.
Public facilities
Bieber has 2 schools and four churches. One of the churches is the Roman Catholic St. Stephen Mission , which is part of the Diocese of Sacramento . Bieber is the location of the Big Valley Elementary School and Big Valley Jr / Sr High School , two of the three school facilities of the Big Valley Joint Unified School District . The Big Valley Museum is also located there.
history
The Big Valley was settled relatively late because the local Indians were considered aggressive. After a village was formed with the nearby Adin in the 1860s, Theodore Pleisch settled in the area of today's Bieber, who claimed the land for himself in May 1873 under the Homestead Act . The area was then known as Chalk Ford after a ford through the Pit River. In the years that followed, more settlers built huts in the countryside.
The place is not named after Justin Bieber , but after a Nathan Bieber . He came to the small settlement on the Pit River in 1877 and started a business with a relative. In 1879 Nathan Bieber became the manager of the post office and the place officially changed its name to Bieber. On December 10, 1883, the settlement achieved the status of a town. In 1888 Bieber already had between 250 and 300 inhabitants and needed a prison the following year.
See also
Web links
- Demographic and statistical data on Bieber ( Memento from April 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Aaron Couch, Bieber, California: Small Town Lives in Shadow of a Pop Icon , Hollywood Reporter, November 20, 2013.
- ↑ St. Stephen Mission on the homepage of the Diocese of Sacramento
- ^ Big Valley Joint Unified School District
- ^ Big Valley Museum at the Society for California Archeology .
- ^ A b Big Valley History , Big Valley News, as of August 8, 2008.