Back سوسانفيلي (كاليفورنيا) Arabic سوزانڤيل (كاليفورنيا) ARZ سوزان ویل، کالیفورنیا AZB Сузанвіл Byelorussian Сюзънвил (Калифорния) Bulgarian Susanville Catalan Сьюзенвилл (Калифорни) CE Susanville CEB Susanville Danish Susanville DAG
City of Susanville | |
|---|---|
 Historic Uptown Susanville | |
| Nickname: The Hub of Northeastern California | |
 Location in Lassen County and the state of California | |
  Susanville Location within California  Susanville Location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 40°24′59″N 120°39′11″W / 40.41639°N 120.65306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Lassen |
| Incorporated | August 24, 1900[1] |
| Named for | Susan Roop |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mendy Schuster [2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.03 sq mi (20.80 km2) |
| • Land | 7.94 sq mi (20.58 km2) |
| • Water | 0.09 sq mi (0.22 km2) 1.07% |
| Elevation | 4,186 ft (1,276 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 16,728 |
| • Density | 2,106.80/sq mi (812.83/km2) |
| Demonym | Susanvillain |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP codes | 96127, 96130 |
| Area code | 530 |
| FIPS code | 06-77364 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 277619, 2412017 |
| Website | cityofsusanville |
Susanville (formerly known as Rooptown) is a city in and is the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States.[4] Susanville is located on the Susan River in the southern part of the county,[5] at an elevation of 4,186 feet (1,276 m).[4] Its population is 16,728 as of the 2020 census, down from 17,947 from the 2010 census. The Susanville urban area contains 8,995 people and 4,233 households.
Susanville, a former logging and mining town, is the site of the High Desert State Prison, California (not to be confused with High Desert State Prison, Nevada), which opened in 1995. The Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong is nearby, having opened in 2001.
The prisons and their effects on the community, including the addition of local jobs, were explored in the documentary Prison Town, USA (2007), aired on PBS.[6][7] Nearly half the adult population of Susanville works at the three prisons in the area, where 6,000 people are incarcerated.[8]
- ^ "California Cities by Incorporation Date". California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions. Archived from the original (Word) on November 3, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
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cityofsusanville_citycouncilwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Susanville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
- ^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 423. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
- ^ "Prison Town, USA]". Making Contact]. Season 11. Episode 31. July 30, 2008.
- ^ POV - Prison Town, pbs.org; retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ^ Taylor, Robert. "'Prison Town' a view from outside", Contra Costa Times, July 28, 2007; hosted at The Mercury News.