Talk:Yreka, California

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On 8/26/2005 I added a bit about goldmining in Yreka. (I used to live there). I'm new to this, so hopefully everything ok. Also added a link to their chamber commerce. Debated, and decided not to link to the local newspaper. Figured that could have it's own page someday? /Thaadd

Pronunciation
Can anyone confirm the local pronunciation of the town name. I heard it was "why-ree-ka". Astronaut 14:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * "Wy-ree'-ka" - no initial "h" sound. The initial sound is pronounced like the letter "Y" in the alphabet, not like the word "why"  Emphasis on the middle sylable. NorCalHistory 17:21, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I can confirm this, natives who I spoke to pronounced it this way. Dcoetzee 07:29, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

mark twain citation
Mark Twain tells it much better than I do. I will replace my feeble description with a quote. --VKokielov 15:45, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

RE: REMOVAL of "For other uses, see Eureka, California" header that was placed in lead of article
Yreka is not another use of the word Eureka and Eureka is not another use of the word Yreka. Granted there may be some confusion, including the fact that the entire time JC Penney had stores in both locations, they routinely messed up orders bound for one city or the other. However, they are not the same word and the use of a header at this level of an article is especially obvious as the error in this usage of "For other uses, see..." To clarify further, there is no use of Eureka that is Yreka and no use of Yreka that is Eureka, period. The error in speaking or reading the word or name is not worthy of placement at the beginning of the article, even if the reference was more correctly stated. Norcalal 08:45, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Dear anon editor in Chico, California
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Additional thought-perhaps this will help you. If you go, for example, to the San Francisco article, you will find this in the intro section:


 * "San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination renowned for its steep rolling hills, an eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, and famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, the cable cars, Coit Tower, and Chinatown."

You will also find in that article quite extensive and detailed descriptions of places and things to do that a visitor would find of interest.

If you look around Wikipedia, I think that you will find that a section describing local landmarks and activities is a standard part of city articles. Although you may not recognize this, the San Francisco article is a "Featured article" - that is, one that meets Wikipedia's highest standards. Again, I hope that this helps! :So, once again, welcome to Wikipedia, and in my years here, it has been a grand time! Good editing! NorCalHistory (talk) 13:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

You might also take a look at Chicago, Sacramento, Fresno, Redding, as well as your home town of Chico, California, and literally hundreds of other city articles for similar sections.NorCalHistory (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yreka Bakery
I will search for a source, citation, or better yet a dated photo, but in March 1993 I visited a bakery in Yreka whose sign read "Yreka Bakery". Rainbow-five (talk) 16:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Which, in fact, is a palindrome. :)  Little  Mountain  5   14:37, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

I lived in Yreka until 2004. There was a functional business called the Yreka Bakery (though not in the original building) until the late 1990's, if not until 2000-2002. I cannot remember exactly when it closed but it was closed a couple years before I moved. I changed the entry, though I too do not have a source or citation other than my own (sketchy) memory. I hope that is acceptable! (NorCalGirl (talk) 23:52, 4 February 2010 (UTC))

I lived in Yreka between 1946 and 1956 when I graduated from YHS, but I visited family there until the late seventies. The Yreka Bakery was a business on the north side of Miner Street, between Third Street and N. Oregon Street, the entire time I lived there. It was run by an elderly baker with the first name of "Martin". The counter clerk was my maternal grandmother, Alta Hudson, so I was in there a lot. I do think it was open long before 1946. The best source would be the Siskiyou County Historical Society. The Yreka Bakery was featured as a palindrome in a "Believe It Or Not by Ripley" cartoon. A common belief was that there was a banner across a road (perhaps Miner Street, leading up to the gold fields) advertising "BAKERY" but the "B" was lost. Reading from the backside, "YREKA". I may do some verification on my own with the goal of editing the entry. Bonemike39 (talk) 23:29, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

At that time, because there was another town called Shasta in the region, Shasta Butte City changed names again, this time choosing the local Indian word for Mt. Shasta—Yreka. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.159.45 (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Weather data is off...
The climate data in this article is rather inaccurate and apparently not derived from weatherbase.com as indicated by the reference. The weatherbase.com data is shown here:

http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=668940&refer=&units=us

This doesn't match what is in the article, and furthermore does not include the record highs & lows indicated. Another, and probably preferable as the origin of the data is clearer, source is NOAA's Western Regional Climate Center:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?cayrek+nca

This also, however, does not have monthly extremes. I'd fix the page using the WRCC data except that I have a suspicion that figuring out how to reformat the table to omit monthly extremes (for which I do not have a convenient source) would make my head hurt. Anyways, as it stands now the table contains erroneous numbers with no clear source. For the moment I'll just put in a marker in the page itself indicating this...

Paalexan (talk) 11:15, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

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Plagiarism or not?
The entire first section under History (i.e. up to the section Lynchings) is almost entirely word-for-word identical to the first two paragraphs on the Yreka website under History (http://ci.yreka.ca.us/visitors/history).

"Almost", because where this article refers to "Rocky Gulch", the town web page refers to "Black Gulch". Both are valid names for gulches in the area and either of them could be the one described. It's not clear whether WP is a copy of Yreka's own page, or vice versa.

Additionally, most of the sources given in this part of the article seem to be broken. Twistlethrop (talk) 18:56, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Erik Pianca
The source for Erik Pianca might be seen as unreliable due to it being a personal blog and how it seems to be more telling a story than describing the events. I do not have the necessary skills to add a new source, but I found an obituary for Erik Pianca that corroborates the story of the bazooka related injuries, I cannot find the afformentioned obituary, if someone is willing to find and add that source that would be much appreciated. I completely understand if no one wants to nor cares enough to do extra work that is unnecessary. 139.60.30.23 (talk) 18:33, 25 October 2023 (UTC)