<Tr> <Th> GNIS feature IDs </Th> <Td> 277582, 2411531 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> Redding, officially the City of Redding, is the county seat of Shasta County, California, in the northern part of the state . It lies along the Sacramento River, 162 miles (261 kilometers) north of Sacramento, and 120 miles (190 km) south of California's northern border, shared with the state of Oregon . Interstate 5 bisects the entire city, from the south to north before it approaches Shasta Lake, which is located 15 miles (24 km) to the north . The 2010 population was 89,861 . Redding is the largest city in the Shasta Cascade region, and it is the sixth - largest city in the Sacramento Valley, behind Sacramento, Elk Grove, Roseville, Vacaville and Chico . </P> <P> During the gold rush, the area that is now composed of Redding was called Poverty Flats . In 1868 the first land agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, a former Sacramento politician named Benjamin Bernard Redding, bought property in Poverty Flats on behalf of the railroad so that it could build a northern terminus there . In the process of building the terminus, the railroad also built a town in the same area, which they named Redding in honor of Benjamin Redding . In 1874 there was a dispute over the name by local legislators and it was changed for a time to Reading, in order to honor Pierson B. Reading, who founded the community of Shasta, but the name was officially changed back to Redding by 1880 . It has been called Redding ever since . </P>

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