Red Bluff, California

Red Bluff is a city in and the county seat of Tehama County, California, United States. Its population was 14,710 at the 2020 census, up from 14,076 at the 2010 census. It is located 131 miles (211 km) north of Sacramento and 31 miles (50 km) south of Redding, and Interstate 5 bisects it. The city sits on the banks of the upper Sacramento River in the northernmost part of California's Central Valley, at the head of navigation, and a Chinatown was created there as early as 1852 to serve the arrivals at the last steamboat stop. It was originally known as Leodocia, was renamed Covertsburg in 1853 and took its current name in 1854, flourishing in the mid to late nineteenth century as a landing point for miners heading to the Trinity County gold fields.