Alturas City Limit - Elev. 4374
N 41° 29.920 W 120° 32.115
10T E 705726 N 4597049
This population and elevation sign is located along Hwy 395 as travelers enter Alturas, CA from the east.
Waymark Code: WMJNKB
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2013
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Travelers heading west into Alturas, CA will see this Alturas city limits sign. There is also a welcome sign for visitors entering Alturas a little further past this sign
here.
Alturas' motto is 'Where the West Still Lives'.
The city was incorporated in 1901 and was previously named Dorrisville, after Presley Dorris, who brought cattle out west in the late 1860s and claimed much land in this area after the Homestead Act was passed. The town was later named 'Alturas' which is is Spanish for 'heights'.
The town of Dorris, CA is named after Presley Dorris.